[EarlyBird]

You're conveniently ignoring Col. Mayville's assessment:

"Their objective is to create an environment that can be used by Turkey to send a large peacekeeping force into Kirkuk."

But then you usually do ignore facts that don't fit your arguments, so I'm not surprised.

I'll say it again, all Turkey wants is the Kirkuk oil fields. If anyone is causing agitation and destabilization in that area it is the Turks and not the Kurds.

And I suppose when the next commando team is captured by the Kurds and dealt with by them instead of by the US, you'll scream that the Kurds committed a terrorist act.

[a_Turk]

Colonel Mayville, is welcome to kiss my patoot. The environment to send in the troops already exists. This very singular report is unsubstantiated. I haven't been able to find another one which does not reference it.