"Hey did you bring some smokes?"Send the UN and that will fix it. :-)
Drop a tlam-n on those no-entry b*stards.
and then go back and get some rugs.
Wow....looks like maybe Israel got those Turks motivated to do some CLEANUP also!
Give the Kurds a homeland
"Hey did you bring some smokes?"This makes little sense since the US is responsible for the security of Iraq right now. Why would Turkey want to send their troops in for slaughter?
cool; no more pretense bump... bump
...the Turkish government had sent an additional 40,000 troops to southeastern Anatolia, bringing the total troops stationed near the Iraqi border to an estimated 250,000 (close to double the number of U.S. forces in Iraq)... Turkey is facing increasing domestic pressure to act after 15 soldiers, police and guards were killed fighting the guerrillas in southeastern Turkey in the past week.They just don't like the whey things are going with the Kurds.
And the anti-unilateralists will have a peace march in front of the Turkey Embassy to the U.S. any moment now ...
Any moment ...
Let me get this correct.
The Turks came from Turkistan, Uzbeckistan and other Turkish provinces around the Caspian. They invaded Greek, Semitic, Keltic, Armenian and Misc. inhabited Anatolia.
They slaughtered the people, forced their adopted religion and language on the remaining people and now are dismayed that the Kurds would want their land back?
Amazing. And what about the slaughter of the Armenians. The long forgotten genoide of 100 years ago?
http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/turkey-armenian-atrocities.html
NEVER TRUST A TURK!
---In April 2006 Aaron Glantz wrote that the Turkish government had sent an additional 40,000 troops to southeastern Anatolia, bringing the total troops stationed near the Iraqi border to an estimated 250,000 (close to double the number of U.S. forces in Iraq).---
Well, I suppose it's OK if it's proportionate force and not like those naughty Israelis. Oh wait, the Kurds are on the protected persons' list, much like the so-called Palestinians. That means you must bow to Geneva and kiss their butts while they lob rockets at you. Of course, because Turkey is an Islamic nation, the affair is more complicated. They can't really be expected to behave according to arbitrary Western codes. Best to ignore it then and get back to picking on Israel. The Israelis seem to be an acceptable target for everyone.
When all hell breaks loose, those soldiers will be just where we need them.
I feel for the Turks, but I can't quite reach them. Let them live under the same PC constraints they would try to put on us, or the Israelis, if we take action against a terrorist "state within a state".
The Turkish position would seem to have some parallels with the Israeli's. The Kurds use northern Iraq as a base to foment problems inside a sovereign Turkey.
We probably should get the Kurds to knock it off!
On the other hand, three well-placed JDAMs just inside the Iraq border with the assurance that the U.S. reserves the right to bomb every square inch of Iraq at will, would probably cause quite a bit of consternation among the Turkish troops. [They might have quite a bit of laundry to do! :]
I beg your freakin' pardon???
I think Turkey might be more interested in having access to Iraq's oil...the Kurds are our strongest allies in Iraq. An invasion would not go over well.
bttt
Turkey has a longer border with Iran and Syria then it does with Iraq. Yet, all we hear Turkey complain about is the 'terrible' Iraqi Kurds. Turkey should be assembling troops on its Iranian or Syrian borders. The entire western world would see the logic with that deployment.