NEWS: Final Piece of the Puzzle in Place For Epic Failure

POLITICS: Final Piece of the Puzzle in Place For Epic Failure

Currently the situation in Iraq is just a regular old failure, but with circumstances on the northern border worsening, Iraq is poised to become an epic failure! Yesterday, Turkey indicated it is prepared to send troops into Iraq to fight Turkish Kurdish guerillas. Kurdish guerrillas killed fifteen Turkish soldiers last week in southeastern Turkey and many are calling for action from the government. The Kurdish guerrillas stage attacks in Turkey from the Qandil Mountains, fifty miles from the border. Turkey has been preparing for attack on Kurdish Iraq for a long time. The plans range from air strikes to a large ground force attack.



Turkey is now demanding that US and Iraqi forces fight the Turkish guerillas, or they will take the situation into their own hands. They may be emboldened by the fact that the US took similar action against Iraq and Israel took against Lebanon. Turkey considers the guerillas to be "terrorists." If Turkey did invade northern Iraq, the US may stand in their way. The Turkish military has been told to draw up plans for a ground invasion that include a clash with US troops. The current military chief of staff in Turkey will be replaced at the end of August with a hard-liner. Condoleezza Rice has repeatedly had to warn Turkey to stay out of Iraq.



But Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a thinly veiled threat yesterday:

Things just keep looking up in the Middle East. The only people who foretold of this potential disaster playing out after the Iraq invasion were people who knew how to read.

And the hits just keep on coming.

America pprobably won't ty too hard. We do use Turkey as a layover to the great sandbox. I'm not sure how often, but we stopped there en route to Afghanistan.

Where was this guy 4 years ago???

But we've got Iraq AFB now, so fuck turkey
We can get our opium from afghanistan, and our belly dancers from india.

wow, the comedy of errors from your foreign policy gurus boggles the mind...
Did G.W. and Cheney really want to start WWIII on purpose or are they really this stupid?

I'm going to go with "yes".

And it's actually not so much a comedy of errors from our foreign policy gurus as a comedy of errors from our administration that refuses to listen to our foreign policy gurus.

Im suddenly having visions of Stephen King's The Dead Zone...... oh the parallels.. the parallels....

Great, I'll never get the though of "W" with Bozo face paint out of my head now.


Not sure how much you jest but I'm wondering how that will come to be.

I. Assassination of the Arch Duke and Austria declared war.

II. Hitler invades everyone/gets fucking insane with bilology and genocide, the Nazis... the world declared war

III. West invades East under no real purpose (oh, sorry, misinformed military leaders), Isreal releasing hell on Lebanon, now Turkey wants in on pent up frustration... yeah, I'm really wondering if the US has sparked the beginning of the third War to End All Wars.

I believe the Middle East, whether now or later or when Jesus returns ( ), is where the greatest, bloodiest battle will be raged.

I'm pretty sure access to oil figures prominately in the reasons for all world wars - and Iraqi oil in particular

for WW 1

Better start writing those letters you were putting off......

You're seeing that too? Eek.

We traded India belly dancing for tech support. Now a lot of our bellydancers are homegrown, and we still can't get our computers to work, so it's pretty much win win for America.

Turkey is our one reliable (and basically democratic) Muslim ally.
AND
The Kurdish area of Northern Iraq was basically the most stable part of that country.

So this is double-plus ungood.