Yikes! I missed reading that somehow. Only link I found was to your rant. Maybe you could provide a link.
How soon they forget, but I am happy to oblige...
Turkeys Discuss Offensive in Iraq
The usual suspects are waaaay too predictible:
It's been suggested the Turks will claim a fifteen kilometer security zone along their border with Kurdistan.
What do do about that if it happens is a problem. Hard to imagine a healthy and independent Iraq if people take slices from it.
But, as someone pointed out, the Turks garduated from Bush's school. There's already one military occupation in Iraq to control terrorists. The Turks will say this is just another.
Posted by Zed at 2008-02-27 06:19 PM
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Israel does this all the time, and after a few years they will begin expanding because the people occupy the land with houses.
Hard to fight it when they let Israel do the same thing.
Posted by moneywar at 2008-02-27 06:23 PM
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There's already one military occupation in Iraq to control terrorists. The Turks will say this is just another.
Zed: At least the Turks would have been telling the truth...
Posted by northguy3 at 2008-02-27 07:38 PM
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Here's a winning strategy for the Bush administration dealing with Turkey. Just declare the Kurds to be terrorists and pretend Turkish troops are in Iraq as part of the coalition that is fighting in Operation Rip Off America. All Bush needs to do is have Patreus issue a retroactive order that orders Turkish troops to invade Iraq from the north.
Posted by danni at 2008-02-28 08:34 AM
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This appears to be evidence to me that the surge has failed. If Turkey has to invade Iraq to try and stem terrorism then all the surge did was redistribute the violence away from Baghdad.
Posted by Generico at 2008-02-28 12:52 PM
