Posted on 10/10/2007 2:57:39 PM PDT by processing please hold
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Was it a systematic attempt to exterminate a race of people, do you think. (You know I'm not being snotty, but truly asking what you think.)
Thank you. Sounds like what in what they purpose for us.
I don't blame them for that...see post #43.
If true that was more idiocy on the part of "the Decider". Dubya should have been working the phone lines and even arranged a face to face meeting with the PM to sway the Turks. Our 4th Infantry Division was supposed to invade from the north via Turkey. It would have made a major difference.
Maybe there really is something to Vicente Fox's critique of Bush ("...the cockiest guy I have ever met.").
Apparently Powell doesn't even have half the horse sense of Baker. Not that Baker was without his faults, mind you.
And I can't tell you, you have to figure that out for yourself.
Yes. That’s the way Ambassador Morgenthau, and I believe his successor, described it. The extermination of a race, today we’d say religion. I accept his opionion.
Not Powell’s fault at all.
Turkey is a parastate whose Muslim kleptocrats have for far too long been supported ot the tune of billions of US tax dollars.
That nasty little business in the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003 is when the Turks denied the United States permission to enter northern Iraq via Turkey causing numerous additional American casualties and allowing thousands of Baathists, criminals, and terrorists — who otherwise would have been interdicted by a northern front — to escape.
Mine, too... but don’t tell my brother-in-law.
could be would be but never comes through..why? they are Muslims—they kill NON muslims not ally with them when our enemy is Muslims!
In any case plenty of republicans including one of the best supported this resolution—Duncan Hunter.
My pleasure!
That picture gave me chill bumps.
Maybe some on here read it and it refreshed their memory of just what that phrase means.
I totally agree on Colin Powell being either inept or refusing to do the right thing on the run up to Iraq invasion. As it has turned out he was just a POS and failed miserably with the Turkish access to N. Iraq which IMO would have been tremendously helpful in sauashing the insurgency before it got rolling!
Maybe the hhistory will correctly note this failure and CB will get painted for it!
I consider you biased on this issue, given your emotional posts regarding the Armenian genocide issue. So I will respectfully put aside your comments on the Powell-Turkey debacle, on which you are simply mistaken. I am neither Turk nor Armenian, so I have no dog in this hunt.
That's a laugh.
Happens all the time.
The Turkish PM had already agreed to allow the 4th A.D. into Iraq via their territory. But Powell's threats regarding the $30 billion loan angered the Turkish people and the Parliament unexpectedly voted the plan down at the last minute, when we could not turn back. Powell is a horse's ass, and was completely in over his head in a situation that required great diplomatic aplomb.
I disagree. It was not the current state of Turkey that perpetrated the “genocide” but the Ottoman Empire. I suppose that you also support the US apologizing to African nations for its role in slavery? Same thought process.
Yep, Powell really was in over his head. We could have used Condi then.
We were being strung along.
But Powell's threats regarding the $30 billion loan angered the Turkish people and the Parliament unexpectedly voted the plan down at the last minute, when we could not turn back.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Virtuous and moral, hahahahahaha.
So, have the virtuous and moral turks stopped taking our billions of dollars a year yet?
In addition to the billions we already give them. :)
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