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2016-07-18 Government

Kerry: Reports The US Assisted Attempt To Overthrow Turkish Gov't Are ‘Utterly False'

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-18 05:05|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Ha! This government couldn't hit the broad side of a barn - from inside the barn.

Posted by Bobby 2016-07-18 07:30|| 2016-07-18 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Which is a pity.
Turkey/ISIS will grow.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-07-18 08:41|| 2016-07-18 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 No mention of prior knowledge. You caught that piece right ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-18 09:08|| 2016-07-18 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Does Kerry have a clue? He didn't on Syria players.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-07-18 09:33|| 2016-07-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 A clever half-truth. We're simply NOT having another overthrown Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Kerry helped see to it.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-18 09:37|| 2016-07-18 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't believe anything this government says anymore. They could tell me the sky is blue and I would walk outside to verify.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-07-18 10:33|| 2016-07-18 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Somewhere at Langley a CIA team is quietly emptying their desks and saying good bye as the security guards escort them to the curb

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-07-18 11:56|| 2016-07-18 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 The safest way to interpret comments from Secretary Kerry is to add the word 'not' to each sentence.
It never occurred to me that our government had some role in the 'coup attempt', until I read this headline.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-07-18 14:17|| 2016-07-18 14:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually, given the history of this particular USG and given the incompetence of that coup...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-18 14:35|| 2016-07-18 14:35|| Front Page Top

#10 This only makes me think that this was a Kristallnacht.

A set up to allow Erdogan cover for his night of the long-knives.

Anything like that is way over the head of the demented bozos in our ruling clique.

Posted by AlanC 2016-07-18 16:26|| 2016-07-18 16:26|| Front Page Top

#11 AlanC: My thought exactly, which is why Erdogan is meeting with Putin I think. He knows he won't get to be in NATO when he goes full dictator, so the little turd is already getting ready to realign to Russia.

Posted by Charles 2016-07-18 16:40|| 2016-07-18 16:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Except, Russians have very long memories.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-18 17:01|| 2016-07-18 17:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Erdogan has been very good to Russia. He's awesome at starting the fight with them, and awful at actually winning it. That's just what Russia really needs.

IF he were a Russian agent bent on screwing up NATO, what would he be doing differently?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-07-18 17:36|| 2016-07-18 17:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Except, Russians have very long memories.

And revenge is a dish best served cold. Erdy may feel he is winning, but I'm pretty sure the Russians are not done with him. Hopefully, the Kurds will get something out of it.

Posted by SteveS 2016-07-18 17:47|| 2016-07-18 17:47|| Front Page Top

#15 OTOH, I suspect it's more likely that Erdogan is simply stupid.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-07-18 17:53|| 2016-07-18 17:53|| Front Page Top

#16 Bay of Pigs feet

Posted by Skidmark 2016-07-18 19:31|| 2016-07-18 19:31|| Front Page Top

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