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Hey, let's invade Turkey

fff

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Artillery and gunfire echoed through the mountains of northern Iraq on Monday during continued clashes between invading Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels, with Turkey saying that 153 guerrillas had been killed in four days.
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad Bolani suggested that the United States should do more to stop the fighting, which has left villagers stranded by bombed-out bridges.
"They are the greatest force on the ground. They have certain obligations," Bolani said Monday of the U.S. military, which has neither intervened in nor commented on the Turkish incursion. "They could do more."

The conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) has put American officials in an uncomfortable position. Turkey is a NATO ally, and the U.S. government considers the PKK a terrorist organization.
The rebels are seeking a separate Kurdish state.
The White House has confirmed that it knew in advance of Turkey's latest military operation, which began Thursday night. American officials have said Turkey has the right to defend itself against the PKK, which has bases in northern Iraq.
But the U.S. also has an allegiance to Iraq's government, which has protested the Turkish incursion.
"Iraq has requested that the Turkish troops go back to Turkey and respect Iraq's sovereignty," Bolani said at a meeting with foreign journalists.
In Washington, Nabi Sensoy, Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., said the military operation would be "limited in size, scope and duration."
"This is only targeted at the PKK," he said.
Turkey said 15 of its soldiers had been killed.
The frustration and anger of people in the area was clear.
"Why are the Turks doing this, in our land, our country?" said Aska Shazeen, who said she was unable to reach her home in Rashya because the bridge she had to cross was destroyed.
Many Iraqi Kurds sympathize with the demands of Turkey's Kurdish minority for their own homeland.
"They are Kurds like us," said Khalifa Qadir, a customer in a cafe in Shiladezah, about 20 miles south of the Turkish border in Iraq's Dahuk province. "This is a nation that won't vanish easily."

At a glance
The latest news in the Iraq war.
Turkish incursion: Turkey says it is not targeting civilians as it chases after separatist rebels in northern Iraq, but people in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region say they have lived in fear since the incursion began.
Violence: A man in a wheelchair blew himself up Monday in Samarra, also killing a police commander in what an Iraqi official suggested might have been a case of a disabled person being used by insurgents. Also Monday, sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims walking to the holy city of Karbala for a religious commemoration killed four pilgrims.

http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/495433.html
 

aplusmnt

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Mike said:
Frankie wrote: Hey let's invade Turkey

Go for it.

Fine with me if they kill every Muslim on earth that want's to cut my childrens heads off.

I knew she would come around eventually, but not for the safety of mine and your children. Frankie just wants their oil, you know how much she has whined in past about gas prices. Well with them rising and rising she must have decided it is a good idea to go after the oil :wink: :lol:
 
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