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Offline Mr No Name

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Turkey Masses 140,000 Troops on Iraqi Border
« on: July 10, 2007, 05:12:58 PM »
Anyone seen this?  I am trying to figure out why exactly...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8Q97U100&show_article=1
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Offline Wolfala

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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2007, 05:14:35 PM »
Kurdistan. They want to be recognized as an independent state - and they have  a lot of oil - which would give them leverage.
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Re: Turkey Masses 140,000 Troops on Iraqi Border
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2007, 06:59:20 PM »
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Anyone seen this?  I am trying to figure out why exactly...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8Q97U100&show_article=1


The kurds have always wanted self autonomy.  However, there's a good portion of kurds near that area in Turkey as well.  If the Kurds of Iraq go solo, the kurds of Turkey will want to join as well, taking with them from both Iraq and Turkey some pretty decent oil wells.


Turkey is almost as violent to the kurds as Hussein was.
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2007, 07:03:54 PM »
oh sure, the turks didn't want to help with iraq but now they want a piece of the action.  Turkey is not now and has never been an "ally" of the USA.

arm the kurds, to hell with the turks.
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« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2007, 07:05:49 PM »
Turks are rats.

The only good Turk is a ..............

Fact


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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2007, 07:17:38 PM »
OK the US says that satellites havent picked anything up.

Did anyone think to put eyes on the ground there?
Its not like a satellite is in the proper place 24-7 to pick everything up ALL the time.

Now maybe there arent there. maybe there are.
But one personal observation is worth 1,000 reports or 100 satellite images
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« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2007, 07:44:14 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2007, 08:01:59 PM »
The Kurd militants are terrorists. That you guys side with the terrorists instead of your NATO ally is ... exactly what I have come to expect from you. Hypocrites.
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« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2007, 08:55:28 PM »
Yeah, imagine that.  The USA siding with a group of people that just want to be left alone.  I wonder why we do that...
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« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2007, 09:01:45 PM »
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Yeah, imagine that.  The USA siding with a group of people that just want to be left alone.  I wonder why we do that...



So then you side with the Iraqi insurgents?  After all, they just want us to leave them alone.  The KDP and the PUK are terrorist organizations, pure and simple.


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« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2007, 09:20:03 PM »
I have to agree with viking
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Offline lasersailor184

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« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2007, 09:57:52 PM »
The Iraqi insurgents are not from Iraq.  Or at least, the vast majority of them are not.  Foreign fighters can't go into iraq and then ask to be left alone.  The foreign fighters are there to kill rival sects, kill Americans, and try to gain control over non-Kurdish Iraq.

However, the Kurds just want to hang out in kurdistan and rule themselves.

I seem to recall many europeans felt the same way from 1500-1900.  My history being a little hazy at this late hour, but I also recall that these people could easily be called terrorists for what they did.  Hell, these people even went out and killed hundreds of thousands of themselves.


But then again, I could be mis-remembering that.  It's not like I've studied history or anything...
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Offline john9001

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« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2007, 10:02:06 PM »
"your NATO ally ", BS ,turkey would not let US troops cross turkey to go into  northern iraq. Turkey is not a friend of the US as much as a enemy of russia.

It's time the US redefined just who is a friend (ally) and who is not.
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Offline FrodeMk3

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« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2007, 11:39:46 PM »
Back in the late '50's and early '60's, we based a lot of varied military assets there-radio listening posts, interceptors, IRBM's with nuke warheads, Bombers(with nuclear weapons), Aerial tankers for SAC, etc.

Now, that was over with the end of the Iron curtain. Where that relationship stands now, is open to speculation.
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Offline Mr No Name

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« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2007, 11:46:26 PM »
Thats exactly why I was interested, my dad was a military policeman attached to a B52 wing there.  His personal favorite plane at the time was the B58 though!  ;)
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