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2007-12-25 Iraq

Turkish army claims massive toll from Iraq bombing raid

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Posted by tipper 2007-12-25 10:46|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 OK i have a few questions i'm sure at least one of you rant burgers can answer. PLease not joseph mendola i don't understand that shit you type. 1. If the US considers the PKK a terrorist org. then why have they let them build up bases and supply depots and such in northern iraq? Or was the US somehow backing this org. at one time, other than when Saddam was in power?

Posted by sinse 2007-12-25 12:54|| 2007-12-25 12:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I would suggest you use common sinse. Barzani's Kurdish faction is supporting the PKK, and Barzani has been for the most part pro-American. Although we oppose the PKK we have tended to support Barzani and Talibani's Kurdish party to insure that the Kurds stayed united as we battled the baathist remnants, alqaeda in Iraq, and the shiite militias and special groups. We are walking a geopolitical tightrope, and we seem to have come down on the side that let us down at the beginning of the War to liberate Iraq. However I think we allowed the Turks to stew in their own juices for a period of time.

Posted by Josep Mendiola 2007-12-25 15:13|| 2007-12-25 15:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Barzani and Talibani support Turkish Kurds in their struggle for some form of autonomy, in a cultural sense at the least. Unfortuntely, because of Turkish density, obtusenes, and shortsightedness, the only Kurdish group that has some clout are the Kurdish commies (PKK). Since no political representative bodies of Kurds are allowed, what remains is outlaws.

Turks learned a wrong thing from the Armenian experience. Genocide won't fly anymore, so they decided for a cultural erasure, instead of giving enough political rights to Kurds to defuse support for extremists within Kurdish communities.

Needless to say Turks won't be successful and at some point in time, it will kick them back into their collective ass.

Now, in the present situation, Iraqi Kurd leadership knows that the deal is to let Turks to gorge hemselves upon some of their deranged Turkish Kurd brethren in order to prevent a real and wider conflict. That wouldn't be fortunate at the present juncture in time. They may publicly protest and give lip service to sensibilities, but they are not interested to get wrecked what they buit during the last 17 years.

They do dream of a Greater Kurdistan that would comprise Iraqi, Turkish and Iranian areas, but they well know the time is not now. With enough patience, and after waiting centuries a few more years or a coule of decades is not that a big price to pay. Their opportune moment will come one day.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-25 15:54|| 2007-12-25 15:54|| Front Page Top

#4 And sinse, don't undrestimate Joe, nor his ability to express himself with a crystal-clear clarity ! ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-25 15:57|| 2007-12-25 15:57|| Front Page Top

#5 PLease not joseph mendola i don't understand that shit you type

What part of fuck off don't you understand?

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-25 18:03|| http://www.cybernations.net/]">[http://www.cybernations.net/] 2007-12-25 18:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Shit makes better points than you do since.

So get back in your smelly box and get fu'cking lost.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-12-25 18:26|| 2007-12-25 18:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Shit makes better points than you do sinse.

So get back in that smelly box of yours and get fu'cking lost.

Joe haz more heart and class than your entire retarded lineage.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-12-25 18:29|| 2007-12-25 18:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Merry Christmas, RD, even to sinse, right? ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-25 20:51|| 2007-12-25 20:51|| Front Page Top

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