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2003-03-20 Iraq

Turkey opens airspace but blocks airbases

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Posted by Steve White 2003-03-20 12:16 pm|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Something along the lines of Andy Jackson and the Cherokees?

"The court has made their decision. Now let's see them enforce it."

Posted by mojo 3/20/2003 10:39:46 AM|| 3/20/2003 10:39:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 You could see this train wreck coming a mile away.

Posted by becky 2003-03-20 03:01:22|| 2003-03-20 03:01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 The question is whether Ankara is planning on presenting us with a partition of Iraq, possibly in concert with Tehran.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-03-20 06:50:41|| 2003-03-20 06:50:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The current regime in Tehran is in it's last days as well, it just hasn't accepted it. Watch what the Iranian people do, not what the mullahs say.....

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-20 07:05:37|| 2003-03-20 07:05:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps the army could give us permission to use the airspace, and tell the Parliament to try to stop us.

Posted by Hermetic 2003-03-20 09:43:11|| 2003-03-20 09:43:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Something along the lines of Andy Jackson and the Cherokees?

"The court has made their decision. Now let's see them enforce it."

Posted by mojo 2003-03-20 10:39:46|| 2003-03-20 10:39:46|| Front Page Top

#7 This Turkish Parliament is thinking things through like a school board. The emotion is getting in the way of logic. The reprocussions will be great from their delay, denial, and decisions.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-03-20 10:47:34|| 2003-03-20 10:47:34|| Front Page Top

#8 The way this cluster job has been going from the beginning, I'm surprised they didn't okay the airbases but veto the airspace. The bus is leaving, you're gonna miss it.

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-20 10:56:09|| 2003-03-20 10:56:09|| Front Page Top

#9 The Turkish military is letting the new government shoot themselves in the foot. Their economy is swirling down the shitter, the US is pissed and the Kurds are playing a big role in the new Iraq government. OOOOOOOOOPS. Maybe France will help us out.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-20 11:05:33|| 2003-03-20 11:05:33|| Front Page Top

#10 The Erdogan Government has been consistently wrong at every step in this process. It's too late to believe they will smarten up.
They evidently believe they are free to partition the Iraqi Kurdish areas, acquire an oil supply, outlaw the political party of their own Kurds and all of this in the face of the American Invasion of Iraq. What is in that Turkish tobacco?

We are not about to free the Iraqi people from Sadaam and allow anyone from Iraq, Syria or Turkey to walk in and take a piece of the Country. If the Military doesn't depose them soon, these idiots will be ordering the military to fight the US to hold Kurdish Iraq.

Oppose and obstruct your only ally - what a bunch of clowns.

Posted by edwardvt 2003-03-20 11:26:09|| 2003-03-20 11:26:09|| Front Page Top

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