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2006-04-30 Iraq

Iranian forces enter Iraq, shell Kurdish guerrillas

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-04-30 08:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why didn't we waste this incursion force?
Like arc-light it?

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-30 10:26|| 2006-04-30 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like the Moolahs are playin' the Turkey card. My $$ is on the PKK

Posted by Captain America 2006-04-30 12:01|| 2006-04-30 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 They're testing the waters to see how much they can get away with. Waiting for a response from Iraqis. Just like a bunch of pushy Arabs, arent they?

Posted by Snavitle Snamp6546 2006-04-30 12:05|| 2006-04-30 12:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Er, pushy Persians...

Posted by Griger Omogum1087 2006-04-30 12:28|| 2006-04-30 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Iranian forces enter Iraq, shell Kurdish guerrillas

it's more than a tactical op.

sounds more like a calculated provocation. Calculated to stir up the shaky Turkey Kurd US/coalition balance.

I hope we're pre deployed and ready for a big test.

Iran is wearing a giantic kick me sign and waving the red flag.

Posted by RD 2006-04-30 15:32|| 2006-04-30 15:32|| Front Page Top

#6 time to cut off, kill the incursion troops

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-30 16:51|| 2006-04-30 16:51|| Front Page Top

#7 more context:

April 30, 2006 last week, according to angry Foreign Ministry officials in Baghdad, Turkish commandos briefly crossed 15 kilometers into Iraqi territory in pursuit of PKK rebelsa move that could signal dangerous new frictions to come.

April 29, 2006 Turks, Kurds Keep Ties Businesslike in New Iraq

..Kurdish leaders are seeking investment from Turkish firms. To date, 314 Turkish companies have signed contracts for projects valued at more than $1 billion, officials of Iraqi Kurdistan have said.

Visitors to Kurdistan can fly into one of two airports built by companies based in Turkey, drive Turkish-built roads and see Turkish-built housing developments and university buildings.

"Turkish companies are everywhere in Kurdistan and doing everything," said Ilnur Cevik, a Turkish businessman whose Cevik Ler company claims more than $100 million in Kurdish government construction contracts.

Posted by RD 2006-04-30 17:06|| 2006-04-30 17:06|| Front Page Top

#8 TURKEY is by far the militarily strongest of Tehran's potential regional Muslim competitors. Tehran's Shia Mullahs and MadMoud ultimately want Radical Iran to be SOLE center on earth for Muslim thought, politics, Govt. and power, the unipolar USA of the absolutist Muslim universe. As Lawrence Eagleburger stated on FNC, there are many good reasons for the USA-WEst and UNO to stop Iran from having nukes, and not all said reasons entails responding only after Iran's sends nuke-tipped missles or nuclearized terrorists-anarchists against targets in Israel or Western Europe. RADICAL IRAN'S EXPANSION TOWARD EMPIRE = DE FACTO DECLINE OF AMERICAN AND WESTERN POWER-INFLUENCE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-30 20:51|| 2006-04-30 20:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Ditto against CHINA in EAST ASIA-PACIFIC. SOcialism-Totalitarianism TWO, WESTERN DEMOCRACY-CAPITALISM = ZERO.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-30 20:53|| 2006-04-30 20:53|| Front Page Top

#10 please do not overestimate the iranian moolahs,although they are smarter than the wahabis and they enjoy the good life. They definitely do not want to turn into camel drivers, thus they are not going to kill the wealth engine of globalization, meaning USA. They slow us done and they don't get to sell their precious oil @ 70 dollars per barrel.All they really want is an oil burse in euros, manipulate the europeans,have their women permanently dress in black (it's cheaper) and lots of influence in Iran......they play one of the most sophisticated geo-political games. What a dance. Next they are going to hook up with Morales, Chavez,Castro.............Personally I think that they will have their nukes.......

Posted by Omomoque Jomoter1383 2006-04-30 22:16|| 2006-04-30 22:16|| Front Page Top

#11 I dont think we have much of any forces up in Kurdistan. The Kurds have been self sufficient for sometime now. I would imagine this incursion was on the border hitting one of those Iranian Kurdish rebel bases.

Gotta give it to the Iranians pretty savvy move. If we retaliate on the Iranian forces in support of the PKK then what about all those same incursions coming from Turkey are we going to do in kind? Will Turkey accept our open protection of the PKK even if its the Iranian branch only? The Pesh Merga claim they dont associate with the Turkish PKK so we get a pass on them from Turkey. On the same note if we dont retaliate Iran looks like the strong horse worsening our position with the Iranian rebels.

If I was Bush I would applaud the Iranian action coming out openly supporting their attacks on terrorist then follow that up with an announcement that we hope the Iranians would support our own actions in kind. Iran will declare any incursion will be met with arms and then we of course will be justified to act in kind to their incursions. Even Turkey could support that

Posted by C-Low 2006-04-30 23:57|| 2006-04-30 23:57|| Front Page Top

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