Left in the Lurch

Supported by artillery and co-ordinated air strikes, 10,000 Turkish troops and attendant armor crossed the border into Northern Iraq. They have done this, to seek out and punish Kurdish freedom fighters, who have left Turkey, for the sanctuary that the newly semi-autonomous, Kurdish region of Iraq, provides. There are 40,000 more troops massed on the border to provide support and reinforcement if needed. The Northern Iraqi Kurdish authority, has a small self defense force and small arms.

The Turks say that the Kurds are using the semi-autonomous areas to launch terrorist attacks on them. The Kurds say there have been no attacks. I have no idea what is true.

I do know that the US has been providing military liaison and sensitive intelligence data to the Turks concerning the Kurds. We also have given the Turks countless billions of dollars in military aid, over the years. They have one of the strongest and best equipped armed forces in the World. We're not doing a damn thing while they slaughter the Kurds, with the overwhelming military superiority we have given them.

I thought that the main reason we were still in Iraq was because if we left, real bad things could happen to them.

This seems like a pretty bad thing. Would this be a good time to mention that I think Condolezza Rice is a craven, cowardly, dog? A real Secretary of State would have nipped this in the bud. It's true we need the Turks but they need us a whole lot more and we have a hundred and fifty thousand troops in Iraq who would like nothing better than to fight a real army in a real war. The bitch was so anxious to fight Iran but when Turkey sends an army to call, she just sits there with her fuckin' thumb in her butt. She can't blame this one on Bush, he's over in Tanzania, dancing, drinking corn beer, and gnawing on a goat hoof. I'm sure the coronary kid would let her go to war if she asked.

I hope the Kurds kick their ass.