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2007-10-15 Iraq

Ralph Peters: PLAYING POLITICS WITH GENOCIDE

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Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-10-15 10:56|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 The Democrats do one shameful thing after another to try to discredit Bush and hang a loss in Iraq around his neck. They are traitors to the country. These traitorous SOBs and DOBs (daughters of...) ought to be all tossed out of office ASAP.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-15 12:35|| 2007-10-15 12:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The Turks tormented their Kurdish minority for decades - and express outrage when Kurds respond. Now they're threatening to invade northern Iraq, while whining that honor-killings, pervasive corruption and anti-Western venom shouldn't deny them membership in the EU.

Despite all that, we've got to kill this resolution. It's not the wording - but the timing.

Legislation similar to this has come up repeatedly in Congress, yet it's always been defeated - in 2000, because of pressure from the Clinton administration. But if the resolution passes the House and Senate now, the Turks plan to evict us from Incirlik airbase in southeastern Turkey, to halt our military over-flight privileges and to shut down the supply routes into northern Iraq.

All right, I'm convinced. Halt the declaration for now. I'm also convinced of something else. The Turks need a smackdown of monumental proportions. Someone in Washington ought to tell Ankara that if they betray America one more time we'll see to it that hell freezes over before Turkey ever gains admittance to the EU.

America's democrats need to think long and hard about their own treachery as well. The republicans are total idiots for not getting the message out about what's really going on with this declaration. Their dumbfounding silence will ensconce Hillary in the Oval Office. This administration's consistent inability to mobilize information is a signal failure of stupendous proportions. Islam and the democrats are given free run of the media without so much as a peep from the Right. Their idiocy is a near-match for the liberals'.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-15 12:50|| 2007-10-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#3 At one time Turkey was a useful ally during the cold war. We had air bases in Turkey. They have slid from secular towards fundamentalist islamic which is trouble. They made the Iraqi war a measure more difficult when they didn't allow the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division to come through Turkey to open a second front. Instead, we had to drop a reduced number of paratroopers in the north. In this latest brew ha-ha, the donks are playing politics at the expense of our military with this nearly 100 year old genocide issue whereas the Turks are wanting to hair up the butter by coming into northern Iraq and going after what they call radical Kurds. The Turks need be told to stay out of Iraq or else. The donks resolution needs to be defeated because of the politics that are being played. You are right Zen, it is the timing of the resolution that stinks.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-15 13:25|| 2007-10-15 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 If the Dems really want to pass a genocide resolution, let them conclude that Darfur is a genocide and let's send a brigade there to kick some ass. How spineless is it to pass a resolution 90 years after the fact? Oh, I forgot, since Bush is in office and we are still fighting in Iraq, this is urgent Congressional business. F 'em all.

Posted by Tibor 2007-10-15 14:40|| http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com]">[http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com] 2007-10-15 14:40|| Front Page Top

#5 JohnQC: we still have an airbase in Turkey. It's a major supply nexus for getting stuff into Iraq.

We need supply lines that come into Iraq through the side opposite Iran.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-10-15 16:53|| 2007-10-15 16:53|| Front Page Top

#6 The Dems have fiddled with ways to shut down the war--this is another back door way to try to do it.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-15 17:55|| 2007-10-15 17:55|| Front Page Top

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