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2006-07-30 Iraq

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Posted by Pappy 2006-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Most likely the Kurds made a phone call to Washington, who made a phone call to Istanbul.

However, you can't discount the possibility that some Turkish officer took one look at the situation and said FTS, they are too far over too much rough terrain for this unit. If they ain't here, I'm not gonna bet that they are over the next mountain.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-30 00:35|| 2006-07-30 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "I stepped over the li-ine. I stepped over the li-ine. Neerner neener!"

"Uh, Yippie? This is George. You lookin' to lose more o' that Ottoman thing you usta have? Look, I said we'd try to he'p you out and here you're gettin' all twitchy and stupid. Do that again without my say so son and you'll be wonderin' where the Hell those soljers you sent down there got off to. You get my drift? These here Kurdish fellas want a seaport and here you're diggin' the ditch for 'em. Put it back in your pants, if'n ya wanna keep it, that is."

Posted by Thise Elmeamp9955 2006-07-30 01:33|| 2006-07-30 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably for the best. It might be they had several low flyovers by our USAF and Navy Pilots. A sonic boom at low altitudes does wonders to get the point across.

Posted by Charles 2006-07-30 03:36|| 2006-07-30 03:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I understand that Turkey goes after Kurdish terrorist groups that attack it over their border and retreat back to Iraq. They never stay for long, it's usually a hot-pursuit thing. I doubt that I would blame them if this is the case. And I doubt that Bush cares one way or the other as long as it doesn't go much beyond hot pursuit or small preemptive actions.

Posted by gorb 2006-07-30 04:28|| 2006-07-30 04:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Thise Elm.. you nailed that. While it's easy to understand that Turkey wants to defend themselves against PKK terrorists, and we'd all like to think that it won't go much beyond hot pursuit or small preemptive actions...that's just not the reality of what the little yippie dog (with his delusions of being the one who gets to wear the bejeweled turban) has in mind. A new front in the WOT has just been opened.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-30 08:11|| 2006-07-30 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 The Turks have maintained troops inside Iraq, as much as several miles, since before Saddam was ousted. There was / is a Turk special forces unit headquartered in Kirkuk or Mosul, not sure which.

Both the former and current Iraqi government lack[ed] the ability to do anything about it.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-07-30 20:29|| http://northcountryjournal.org]">[http://northcountryjournal.org] 2006-07-30 20:29|| Front Page Top

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