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Monday, October 22, 2007

An audacious cross-border ambush by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers Sunday, ratcheting up pressure on the Turkish government to launch a military offensive into Iraq. The Turkish military said Monday that eight of its soldiers were also missing after the raid.

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Very bad news. Bush should be doing something to reign in the Kurds. More of the unanticipated consequences of the frat boy president's ill conceived war. CAn we afford to let these clowns continue in office til 2009???

Hold on to your asses. WWIII might just have a new competitor.

Interesting article from the Guardian.

But, for several reasons, the Turkish military is likely to limit its operations to small-scale incursions and air strikes on specific targets rather than launch an all-out war.

First, the Turkish military has no interest in embracing the risks that come with involvement in Iraq's sectarian strife. A full-scale invasion might well provoke Iraq's own Kurdish guerrillas into a prolonged and bloody battle with Turkish forces that can only undermine support for Erdogan's government at home and abroad.

Second, Turkey's government hopes to keep the country's bid to join the European Union moving forward. An invasion of Iraq would bring that process to a grinding halt. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has made plain that Europe strongly opposes any large-scale Turkish military operation in Iraq.

Third, Turkey is well aware that an all-out attack inside Iraq is exactly what Turkey's Kurdish separatists want. What better way to damage Turkey than to pull its military into conflict with Iraq, the US and the EU? Erdogan has no intention of being drawn into that trap.

With all that in mind, this latest move by Turkey's parliament should be seen more as an ultimatum to Iraq's Kurdish regional government to expel the Turkish Kurds and an attempt to persuade the US to use its considerable influence there. That's hardball politics, not a declaration of war.
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Bush should be doing something to reign in the Kurds.

With what, harsh language? We don't have the troops to secure the border. And even if we did, I wouldn't put our soldiers in the crossfire of a foreign civil war anyway.
If the Kurds and Turks are shooting at eachother, who do we shoot at? There's no answer to that question.

With what, harsh language?

Was that an intentional Samuel L. Jackson reference?

^^^LOL, no, not intentional. Must have just percolated through the subconscious...

Turkey is in a very difficult situation, they have to use enough force to suppress Kurdish rebels while not using too much to suck themselves to the tarbaby that is Iraq. If they do nothing the rebels will escalate their attacks to spread the violence into the Kurds of Turkey. If they do too much, well they will be stuck occupying the border of Iraq with their forces permanently in harms way, basically that would push the border a few miles east ward.

either way they are encouraging the rebels.

who is arming the kurds attacking into Turkey? Iran, hardly, Syria? doubtful. Iraq meaning the US?

Isnt that Ironic, dont cha think?

Noone could have imagined.

Iraq-Get Used to It.

Danni,

Shut up, pull the remote out of your fat rolls and eat some more bon bons. Bush isnt going anywhere because the liberals dont have any grounds to make that happen, and if they tried they will just look more stupid than usual.

Somebody tell tell Bush to get his ass over there and straighten out thoes Kurds.

Why do the words "Bush" "ass" and "straighten" in the same sentence make me think of Jeff Gannon?

""Shut up, pull the remote out of your fat rolls and eat some more bon bons. Bush isnt going anywhere because the liberals dont have any grounds to make that happen, and if they tried they will just look more stupid than usual.""

There's plenty of "grounds" jsut not enough votes because the Republican believe in Party before Country just like SICKOFLIBS.

The irony is that now Turkey has more reasons to attack iraq than the u.s. ever had, and the bush league is asking for moderation.

Never mind gaining control of the situation on the ground, the bush league can't even contain its own pile of ever-growing shit.

Gee, I wonder where those PKK terrorists got their weapons...anyone? It ain't Iran, if you're wondering.

Now if hezbollah had killed 12 Israeli troops, Bush Cheney and GZ would all be demanding the IDF nuke every Lebanese village with more than two goats.
Funny how "I don't do nuance" Bush now believes some terrorists are less terroristic than others and some are even just "concerned neighborhood citizens".

"Gee, I wonder where those PKK terrorists got their weapons...anyone? It ain't Iran, if you're wondering."

Terrorists? No. no, Pancho. Freedom fighters, rebels, people yearning to be free.

And yet again Danni, please provide some evidence of your continual accusations.

B b b but it's DanniDrivel dontcha' know.......(requires no evidence just her usual drool)

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