[Az Joe]

Gee I wonder how they would have felt had Saddam gone north in '91?

[Cicero]

I imagine $3,600 would pay for a pretty big hole in some farmer's field, even in this country, let alone the back end of Turkey.

[EaglesUpForever]

the people of the impoverished east, fearing further falls in living standards, say they have much to lose from the conflict.

They would have had alot to gain from the conflict had they chosen the right side.

[Cold Heat]

The turks need to put a sock in it and stop watching Al Jazz Bag TV.

They are in real trouble and are not likely to get our assistance except reluctantly through NATO.

They need to put the entire country on tranq's!

[nmh]

Sic the kurds on em. Maybe then they'll be more appreciative of what we are doing for them. Need I mention the extortion for use of the air?

[ET(end tyranny)]

Well, geeeee. What has their panties in a wad? Same thing has bunched the panties of the French, and the UN??? They don't like finding out that they are IRRELEVANT??

[Centurion2000]

Some 90 percent of Turks are against the war and the people of the impoverished east, fearing further falls in living standards, say they have much to lose from the conflict

My heart bleeds .. /not ... get in America's way ... miss out on our help.

[Enemy Of The State]

maybe we should shower them with Patriot Missiles?

[Hugin]

I say we remove all of our forces from Turkey ASAP. Now that we have airbases in Iraq we don't need them anymore. Let all our fair-weather "allies" go to hell.

[SENTINEL]

Damned rock chuckers !

[FirstTomato]

Uh oh, I have a suspicion that Jesse "shakedown" Jackson was seen in that village earlier in the day.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Spray em' all with .50!!!!!!!!!!!

oragoodoldfashined!

[epow]

"This amount of money does not cover the damage we have suffered but we accepted it to close the episode," local government official Mehmet Yilmaz told the agency.

Yeah right. I bet Mehmet has never seen that much money in one place in his entire miserable life. $3600 American would probably buy his entire one-goat village with the next mudhole town thrown in the bargain.

I hope we never send another dollar to these TURDkey ingrates. But of course we will, Uncle Sucker didn't get that name for nothing.

[LaGrone]

I figure our relationship with the Turkish government is over except for a few minor points of agreement.

Their economy did suffer after the Gulf War, which we should feel bad about. However, twenty six billion in loan guarantees is a tidy some for letting the 4th ID go through their country. And it did seriously affect our tactical plan. Now what, they are mad they didn't take the money. TOUGH!

[servantoftheservant]

...the people of the impoverished east, fearing further falls in living standards, say they have much to lose from the conflict.

There's a reason these people are impoverished. They are stupid as hell.

If they can't see that having a relatively free people with a US supported government and economy next door is better than having and a-hole dictator with a sanction crippled economy next door....well, I already said it. They are stupid.

[Jorge]

"This amount of money does not cover the damage we have suffered but we accepted it to close the episode," local government official Mehmet Yilmaz told the agency.

Please. The best thing that ever happened to them was having a Tomahawk fall on their farm so they could grab a few thousand $$ and get their primitive toothless faces on TV.

[HiTech RedNeck]

and the people of the impoverished east, fearing further falls in living standards, say they have much to lose from the conflict.

Such as their former customers in northern Iraq, once liberated Iraq becomes prosperous?

[RightOnline]

Tuck Furkey.

[greasepaint]

After the liberation of Baghdad,
the Turks' smuggling business will be...
Out of Business.

Turkey's economy will collapse.

[areafiftyone]

Alot of Turks are muslims. Most Muslims hate Americans and I am afraid that feeling will not go away even after we liberate Iraq!