Udie: WTF are these guys doing moving their troops to the border? I wonder if they are planning on making a run for the norther iraq oil fields and killing a few kurds on the way? You should learn something about the region before you offer so inane speculation.
Turks go there to prevent 5 million iraqi kurds upraising and drive for independence that would spread to 15 million kurds living in Turkey and few million in Iran once the US breaks down the Iraqi state.
I bet that whatever the disagrement we had with Turkey, they will threaten or invade kurdish north with our full agreement and cooperation.
It may not be convenient for us to bomb and slaugher kurds raising in pursuit of self-determination and liberty afer we started the whole thing "to bring liberty to the opressed population" of Iraq. Here is where Turks will prove immensely helpfull - as they were in torturing suspects we did not want blamed on us.
We will say to kurds. "Surely, we support you - but if we give you independence, all those turks will invade and slaughter you. And being NATO allies wth them, we would not care protect you - especially since you have no oil. So we will keep you split among three countries and ruled by foreigners for your own good!"
Toad: I think, given the votes in the Turkish parliament, that should they make a grab for territory, Like they need another few million troublemaking kurds in their country! They are more likely to evict their own kurds into Northern Iraq to make them our problem.
miko
