ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a possible cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, although the government appears willing to give diplomatic pressure on the U.S.-backed Iraqi administration more time to work.
Lawmakers voted 507-19 in favor of empowering the government to order the military to cross into Iraq during a one-year period, Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan said. They then burst into applause.
Turkish leaders have stressed that an offensive against the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, would not immediately follow the expected authorization.
In Washington, President Bush said the United States was making clear to Turkey it should not send a massive number of troops into Iraq.
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Turkish Parliament Approves Iraq Mission
Well Mr. President, there were MANY people that advised YOU not to go into Iraq, and you didn’t listen to them, there are MANY MORE people today that constantly implore you to get US the hell out of Iraq, and you turn a deaf ear to their pleas, why should the Turks listen to YOU?? What are you going to do?? Piss off one of the better allies we have in the region?? That seems to be your method of doing business, so it really wouldn’t come as a surprise to ANYONE I suppose…
And here’s what I don’t get, Bush Opposes Turkish Offensive but he goes ahead and does his ‘honors’ thing for the Dalai Lama at the risk of incurring the wrath of China…
Now it’s not that I really give a damn about pissing off the Chinese, because I don’t, but we don’t have the whereto to take a BATTLE to China right now, we’re mired in Iraq, a place the size of Texas for crying out loud, and according to sources this little piece of shit nation has OUR military stretched to the breaking point, so how in the HELL could we afford to do battle with China?? Over the Dalai Lama??
Bush knows about as much concerning diplomacy as I know about nuclear science, a word that I can actually pronounce by the way, nuclear that is, and if we’re not careful, it won’t matter WHO the next POTUS is, because the one we have now will have already taken us into war with the rest of the world…
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The Raw - Raw crowd just keeps screamimg, Go Bush - Go Bush!
Bush is our God, Bush is our Savoir and we will follow him anywhere, except to battle that is.
Have you noticed how these Bush-Bots are now wanting to reach out to Islam? Fuck ’em, each and everyone.
I can’t really blame the Turks for wanting to go after the Kurd terrorists…the USA would be better off if we just backed out and told the Turks..”Iraq is historically yours..and you can have it back if you can take it..” then make a deal with them for the oil…
Guy hit it on the head, let the Turks have it, with our blessings and ANY help they may need, makes a strong ally stronger and they will be glad to have the oil revenue too…
See why I’d want you on my cabinet if I was Prez?? 😀
What a mess…..
My dad was stationed in Iran, Israel and Egypt. He used to say that “dealing with the problems of that region was like trying to take down a hornets nest.” He was right.