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2006-05-01 Iraq

Dont attack us or else, Kurdish guerrillas warn Iran

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why don't we give the PKK some stinger missiles and night vision goodies for christmas this year?

Posted by Slineling Whick9268 2006-05-01 09:31|| 2006-05-01 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 They seem sor of Stalinist...as in I'd make a deal with the devil...

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-01 09:36|| 2006-05-01 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I dont think we have much choice but to deal with Turkey. Both vis a vis Iraq, and for support if things get hot with Iran. Doesnt mean they wont look out for their own interests, and going after the PKK is a more immediate concern for them than Iran. Im not sure thats so unreasonable from the Turkish POV.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-05-01 09:44|| 2006-05-01 09:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Deal with? Yes. Count on again? No.

Posted by Jules 2006-05-01 09:58|| 2006-05-01 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Right now we want Iranian Kurdistan as separatist as possible without endangering themselves. The PKK, by irritating the Iranian government, is risking large number of Iranian forces tamping down the entire Iranian Kurdish territory.

Ironic that by their effort, they could forestall the creation of "greater Kurdistan".

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-01 10:12|| 2006-05-01 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Anonymoose - it would be a great pretext for some US action. f.e. an attack on the PKK inside Iraq is an invasion of US occupied Iraq. We must protect a state we occupy. Ero it would require an appropriate responce... like maybe a defanging of Iran's nuclear ambitions?

Posted by Unaise Thavigum5816 2006-05-01 12:13|| 2006-05-01 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The PKK is every bit as nasty as the Shining Path or the Khmer Rouge, except that neither of those used suicide bombers. The Turks thought that they'd decapitated them several years back when they captured their leader Abdullah Occalan and threatened to invade Syria if they didn't cease their support for the group. Siding with Stalinists, especially when we don't have to, is a good way to alienate both Turkey and our Iraqi Kurdish allies in the KDP and PUK, who have helped Turkey fight the PKK in the past and are currently trying to convince the group to lay down its arms according to today's issue of Cumhuriyet. What could possibly be gained by supporting the PKK at this (or any other juncture) is beyond me.

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2006-05-01 13:25|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2006-05-01 13:25|| Front Page Top

#8 This is simply the Moolahs playing the Turkey card. Note that Turkey proclaimed they would not assist the US vis-a-vis Iran.

Posted by Captain America 2006-05-01 14:05|| 2006-05-01 14:05|| Front Page Top

#9 when the turd hits the fan, I hope the Kurds hit Iran

Posted by Glunter Gliper5719 2006-05-01 14:43|| 2006-05-01 14:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Dan
I didn't say side with. I was suggesting a good excuse.

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-01 17:41|| 2006-05-01 17:41|| Front Page Top

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