Turkey gets ready for WAR

[BlackJack]

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey is ready to set up refugee camps inside northern Iraq to shelter and feed thousands who may flee any U.S. military strike against neighboring Iraq, a Turkish Red Crescent official said.

Turkey, a close U.S. ally likely to play a role in any strike on Iraq, is determined to avoid the international humiliation and scorn it suffered after the 1991 Gulf War when one million Kurdish refugees, starving and exhausted, crossed over the region's mountains into Turkey.

Turkish troops initially tried to hold the exodus inside Iraq but were rapidly overwhelmed by sheer numbers of refugees who soon exhausted meager local provisions. The pictures of chaos and suffering in the makeshift camps inside Turkey were broadcast internationally. "The priority is to set up a buffer zone 10 miles inside Iraq to provide for any Iraqis who may cross the border," Muzaffer Karadede, chief of the Red Crescent in the city of Diyarbakir, told reporters late on Monday.

There was also provision for handling refugees inside Turkey, a country suffering its worst recession since 1945.

[BlackJack]

Ready to Roll

[GVnana]

Ready to Roll

Sure looks like it.

[American in Israel]

Well if they are setting up these camps inside Iraq, looks like they have already rolled!

[Lion's Cub]

Good move. They can sit on the Kurds getting help from Iran and al Qaeda.

[jalisco555]

I agree. The rolling has slowly begun.

[nevergore]

IMHO, The night of September 10th early morning of the 11th in the Middle East......
That would allow the president to address the nation the evening of September 10th, make his case as the bombs fall...
This would send a clear message to the world.....and especially those who wish us harm...
NeverGore

[fivecatsandadog]

big bump

[hapy]

wow never thought of that! Great Idea, it would certainly get us back the senate.

Down with little tommy daschle the obstructionist

[SantosLHalper]

IMHO, The night of September 10th early morning of the 11th in the Middle East...... That would allow the president to address the nation the evening of September 10th, make his case as the bombs fall...

I'd say about 6:30pm eastern time. Just as Jerkings, Lather and Brokejaw show their smug, self important, loathesome faces to announce the days headlines would be a great time for Dubya to pop in and announce that the war had begun.

"No fair!" They would cry. "We didn't even have time to warn the Iraqis."

[CDHart]

"IMHO, The night of September 10th early morning of the 11th in the Middle East......That would allow the president to address the nation the evening of September 10th, make his case as the bombs fall... This would send a clear message to the world.....and especially those who wish us harm... NeverGore"

Brilliant idea. I hadn't even thought of that. I hope you're right.

Carolyn

[toddst]

The rolling has slowly begun.

Certainly looks that way. Now I'd wondering whether Saddam might just decide to flee into exile before anything serious happens. Just a thought.

[Sinner6]

"No fair!" They would cry. "We didn't even have time to warn the Iraqis."

I think the press has already warned the Iraqis.

[nevergore]

If we are to attack Iraq before the November elections, September 11th is the only day we could attack without it appearing totally political, Otherwise, we would probably wait till January....
NeverGore

[demlosers]

I'm predicting 12- 15th of November, about when the cooler weather arrives and the mid-term elections are over.

[300winmag]

If we are to attack Iraq before the November elections, September 11th is the only day we could attack without it appearing totally political, Otherwise, we would probably wait till January....

Even if the pubbies GAIN seats in the election, the RATS will say "you lost your mandate on the war". They will oppose the war before the election, and after it, too.

They have already politicized this war, and are working towards an American defeat as a way of easing Hitlery into the White House in 2004. Why should she wait until 2008 if she can say Bush "bungled the war" in 2002?

[nevergore]

The cooler weather wait in the dessert mantra is well overated. Our mechanized units and troops move at night were we rule and the temperture is moderate. Our air units move day and night...
Although cooler weather is desirable, we are ready to fight at any time......and better equipped for it than the Iraqis...
NeverGore

[George W. Bush]

There was also provision for handling refugees inside Turkey, a country suffering its worst recession since 1945.

We need to stockpile food and petroleum and trucks and temporary housing supplies in the refugee zone so Turkey does not have to deal with this problem alone when they are already taxed. After all, it will be our own military action which will cause the Iraqi refugees to swarm into Turkey. U.S. agriculture is certainly capable of taking up the slack. We should begin moving vital supplies immediately to stockpile in Turkey.

[George W. Bush]

I'm predicting 12- 15th of November, about when the cooler weather arrives and the mid-term elections are over.

I oppose this on principle.

Spook Daddy Bush did much the same thing in the Gulf War, waiting to announce the full buildup until after the election. It was quite obvious that he and the government waited until after the election so as to prevent voters from making choices on immediate concerns about foreign policy. That Spook Daddy was correct to take action against Saddam in '91 is irrelevant. This is exactly the sort of manipulative behavior which gradually reduced Britain to a suspicious and non-cooperative electorate. It will do the same thing here.

Hardly in the tradition of the Republican party when one recalls that Lincoln held elections in the midst of a civil war.

I sincerely hope you're wrong. I hope GWB is wiser than to do something so openly cynical.

[demlosers]

I sincerely hope you're wrong. I hope GWB is wiser than to do something so openly cynical.

I don't put a lot of stock in my dated prediction. I hope I'm wrong too.

[demlosers]

See post 19.