Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Turkey's prime minister warned Iraqi Kurdish groups Tuesday against trying to seize control of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will not stand by amid growing tensions among ethnic Turkmens, Arabs and Kurds in Iraq's oil-rich north. (AP Photo)
So if they invade the Kurds, do we have to fight NATO?
An unidentified Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric listens to a panel of experts and politicians from Turkey and Iraq who were discussing the current situation and the future of the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in Ankara, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007. Turkey is warning that ethnic groups in Kirkuk must share power, amid growing fears that Iraq's Kurds will seize control of Kirkuk as part of a push for an independent Kurdish state on the Turkey-Iraq border. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
It is time for a gut check on the part of the Iraqi govt. Will they protect Iraqi territory even if it is Kurdish terriotry, or will they make the Kurds deal with a foreign army by themselves? If they don't support the kurds in this, then the kurds will have a basis for secession.
Turkey not only refused to let us cross their territory in the invasion of Iraq, they strung us along for weeks and then stabbed us in the back--one reason why that part of Iraq has been difficult to pacify after the fall of Baghdad, because it gave Saddam's troops time to melt back into the population with their weapons.
We don't owe them anything at this point. They elected to ally themselves with France. Let them ask the French for some help.
If Turkey invades Iraq from the rear would Greece help?
When did Kurdistan start taking in boarders?
The U.S. should tell Turkey to keep their darned nose out of it, or send in troops to help with the general clean up.
it's funny how all these nations like Turkey and Iran and others are comming into this half way through AFTER we have done all the hard work- Attacking others while they've been weakened. Turkey has been chomping at the bit waiting for their chance to invade. President Bush should issue a statement and say that if one turkish foot step over the border to interfere in the war on terror that h4 will bomb them back to the stone age.
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Let me see. Turkey stiffed us on the 4th ID during "Iraqi Freedom". The Kurds not only helped us, they're still thanking us. NATO [some of it] won't even fight the Taliban. The rest of NATO will go with us instead of Europe. It's a no brainer. Screw Turkey. Or, in the name of reasonableness, Turkey waives on Kirkuk - we give them ALL of Cyprus [we owe the Greeks something for the rocket attack, anyway].
Fascinating mess they've got over there -- the Kurds were hosting Iranians engaged in the attacks on Iraq and the US forces there. The Kurds said they'd known all about it all along. And at least one of the Iranians assassinated leaders from a rival Kurdish faction. Just a coincidence of course. The Iraqi gov't also objects to their capture. And the Turks are threatening to invade (nothing new), while saying that the Kurds -- far and away the most numerous -- have to share power.
Nuke all the bastards, plant the flag, and tell China and Europe that the price of oil is going up.