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2003-04-09 Iraq
Highway Skirmish Turns Into Turkey Shoot
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Posted by Steve 2003-04-09 10:06 am|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Turkey Shoot? We shooting the cowardly Turks now? Better watch out Murat.

Nah - the Turks, erm Turkeys, dont get into war with people who can shoot back (when they do, they lose, like they do to the Greeks), they prefer to pick on unarmed minorities like Armenians and Kurds.

Actually, this shows how the years of ruling via fear have addled the minds of the Iraqi overlords. They just cannot believe that they have lost, and are still tying to act as if they still have their old power. Seems a .308/7.62 round in the head from 700 yards is teaching them otherwise.
Posted by OldSpook 2003-04-09 10:21:02||   2003-04-09 10:21:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Pleeeease, OldSpook, don't bait Murat. He's having enough emotional problems right now.
Posted by Tom 2003-04-09 11:13:04||   2003-04-09 11:13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 If you want to call Turkish people something that doesn't make them sound like turkeys, you could call them Anatolians.
Posted by mhw 2003-04-09 11:21:39||   2003-04-09 11:21:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like Marine Rifle 101. Looks like the Poogy Bait 7th is doing the job
Posted by Shipman 2003-04-09 13:15:14||   2003-04-09 13:15:14|| Front Page Top

#5 If you move on into Turkish Kurdistan you might liberate some more innocent prisoners and maybe find some torture chambers there, too.
Although to liberate the democratically elected Kurdish members of the Turkish parliament who serve prison times of up to 15 years just for using the Kurdish language in parliament you might have to move on a little further to Ankara.
Just a suggestion...
Posted by True German Ally 2003-04-09 14:28:05||   2003-04-09 14:28:05|| Front Page Top

#6 They ran. They died tired.
Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-09 14:28:11||   2003-04-09 14:28:11|| Front Page Top

#7 TGA - 1. Turkey has no WMD, or related legal issues
2. "democratically elected Kurdish members of the Turkish parliament who serve prison times of up to 15 years just for using the Kurdish language in parliament" Surely you understand the difference between this violation of cultural rights, and the genocide perpetrated by the Saddamist regime in Iraq? Surely you dont mean to suggest that because we destroyed the worst regime on the planet we are obliged to deal with every violation of cultural and language rights? Surely, as a German, (sorry, I cant resist) you can understand the difference between a military dominated,semi-democratic regime that culturally oppresses a minority (EG Imperial Germany,which oppressed its Polish minority) and a totalitarian genocidal regime (I hope I dont have to name the German example)
Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-09 15:33:11||   2003-04-09 15:33:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Please name the German example... I survived it. Plus the Soviet one a few years later.
If you read my posts you'd know that I have all sympathy for the liberation of Iraq. What stuck in my throat is that until the Turks refused the cooperation they were the wonderful allies that the US wanted to push into the EU. Only after that the Armenian genocide and the oppression of the Kurds was brought up.
The Kurds in Anatolia may not have been gassed but they suffer a slow, silent genocide. I have been in Kurdish villages and have seen what this means.
Frankly I'm not sure who has killed more Kurds: Saddam or Turkey.
Posted by True German Ally 2003-04-09 19:59:06||   2003-04-09 19:59:06|| Front Page Top

#9 The nickname Pogey Bait 6th is referring to the 6th Marine Regiment, not the 7th Marines. However, It wouldn't be wise to make that remark to a Marine in that regiment.
Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-09 21:27:13||   2003-04-09 21:27:13|| Front Page Top

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