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2003-07-15 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-07-15 9:14:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is the second time this has happened. I hope that someone has advised Ankara that if it happenes a third time, we'll send them back in body bags.

Posted by Mike 2003-7-15 12:23:02 PM|| 2003-7-15 12:23:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "The Turkish media almost universally condemned the arrests as an insult to Turkish pride and a long alliance with Washington."

The hypocrisy of the Turks is amazing - they must be getting pointers from Phrawnce. They have zero business crossing the border - I don't care what they did in the past as it's irrelevant, now.

If you caught someone in the henhouse and he was carrying all the fixins to whip up some fried chicken - would you describe it as "disturbing" - or as something else, something a little more direct?

Fuck Turkey.

Posted by PD 2003-7-15 3:32:44 PM|| 2003-7-15 3:32:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 First we offer them $15 billion to let the 4th ID to transit their rocky little country. This is an on again/off again deal that leaves our troops floating in the Med.

Next we tell keep your stupid little countryand send our guys around thru the Suez and up the Persian Gulf.

Then they make noises about a stronger Kurdish state. (Eh, go back to point one.)

Finally, they are trying to carve out a piece of Iraq as a 12 mile buffer zone, and threaten to send us packing from their bases.

*** Newsflash ***
We now control a big stretch of sand to south. You know the patch between Syria and Iran.

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2003-7-15 5:45:21 PM|| [www.DouglasDeBono.com] 2003-7-15 5:45:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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