[a_Turk]

ping..

[epluribus_2]

I think a nice stay in Falluja and Tikrit for these nice Ottoman boys would be a good way to start the new phase of the occupation. How do you say "Yes, Sir, here is where Sadama is hiding" in turkish?

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[.cnI redruM]

Cool tag line. Is that album still in circulation anywhere?

[Clemenza]

I love the Turks. Good soldiers (ask any Korean war vet), good looking women (at least I think so) and great hospitality towards Americans, whether in Turkey or overseas (the Turkish restaurants in my area are always giving me free stuff).

As I've said on other threads, I often wish that the Ottomans had defeated TE Lawrence in WWI. Come to think of it, if the central powers would have won WWI, we would have been spared Hitler, Lenin and the crazy Arabs.

[rface]

too bad it took so long - but I am glad to see this notheless.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good news!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this good news.

Good to have the Turks back as our allies in these post war events. They did a great job in Afghanistan.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

BUMP

[marron]

This is good news. Our biggest need is not military so much, we are handling that fine, our need is to rob the Baath and the nutballs of legitimacy. And among the people who hate us, the Turks can go a long way in that direction.

We can catch bullets all day long, we do that fine. Our need is to pull the philosophical rug out from under these guys. The Turkish presence, I believe, will help us do that in the Baath triangle.

Secondly, there is a bigger game than Iraq alone, and I believe that Turkey has a role to play if they will do it. We have a lot of work ahead of us, and many hands, the right hands, make the work light, as they say.

[Beck_isright]

Why is this so hard? Do we still have idiots like Joe Wilson negotiating with Turkey? We need a strong Turkish force on the Syrian border asap. I can not believe there would be any issues on this subject but as usual our State Department socialists are looking for a way to screw this up I'm sure.

[river rat]

"The vote does not mean that soldiers will immediately be dispatched.
The government is still negotiating the terms of deployment with the United States, which could take weeks or even longer.

I'll reserve comment, until something of consequence happens..

Many of us have come to regard agreements, positions, statements or allies in the middle east as "flexible"..

If one wanted to be cynical -- one could surmise that one party in this "agreement" has been determined to be a whore, and now is simply haggling over the price...

Semper Fi

[Robert_Paulson2]

Thanks for posting this...a_Turk
Better late than never...