Iraqi Kurds flee border region as tensions mount-(Turks and Iranians blasting away)

daily star ^ | May 06, 2006 | Daily Star staff

[Ma3lst0rm]

I think Turkey and Iran both need a few bombs dropped on them.
We should sell weapons to the Kurds they are our only real idealogical allies in the region and should be defended against such attacks.

[gr8eman]

I agree...we should give them 100% support. They deserve their own country after what they have been through since the "allied" geniouses screwed that entire region up after WW1.

[nuconvert]

"They (PKK) are in our land. We want them to respect the law and not use our territory to stage attacks" against Iran or Turkey, said Imad Ahmed, deputy prime minister of northern Kurdistan's Suleimaniyeh province. "We want them to leave our country but in peace, not in war. If they want to stay they have to use politics, not weapons."

I think many people don't understand that the PKK are communists.
I hope the Iraqis can do something to get them under control.

[ASA Vet]

I think many people don't understand that the PKK are communists

That includes many on FR.

Bears repeating a little louder.

PKK = COMMUNISTS

[Marine_Uncle]

It is going to be up to Talabani and the new Iraqi interior/defense ministers, and PM, to put their foot down on this one. At this point, the PKK is no different then say the Mahdi army or Badr Brigade in the sense, no militias or paramilitary groups can be tolerated in Iraq.
And since the PKK is listed by the USA and some other nations as being a terrorist organization driven by Marxist prinicipals under the guise of Kurdish nationalism, it will be hard for the Iraqi not to do something about it in the near future.
If Iraq wants free trading agreements with the Turks in this region to help bring in tax dollars and business, they cannot let the PKK and sister organizations such as the PEJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), continue to disturb the northern border with Iran and Turkey.

[Axlrose]

So we should bomb a fellow NATO country in support of some communist / muslim terrorists ?

Wow, i don't think you thought this through very well.

[nuconvert]

Yup

[Syncro]

Jesse, got any comments on this?

Thanks

[Axlrose]

The US isn't going to attack a NATO country for an islamic terror group. Sorry.

[RobbyS]

But we may take action to maintain the integrity of Iraq.

[Axlrose]

Iraqi integracy is not worth the paper the Europeons wrote it on.

Iraq is a artificial post war construct of the europeons, we need to leave it to the people who actually live there to decide where the borders will fall. If it spilts up along ethnic lines the short term pain will be worth the long term stability.

And no, as long as Turkey makes no long term incursions into Kurdistan, the US isn't going to attack a NATO country in order to do the fighting for an islamic terror group, under the pretence of Iraq integrity or no.

[Axlrose]

Oh, that makes it alright then LOL

Its members are Muslim, regardless of their political leanings. Even the Soviets didn't iradicate the church, even in times of war.

[OB1kNOb]

A BUMP for your thoughts. - OB1

[a_Turk]

The terrorists are going to be eradicated, and the Kurds are going to live in peace with the Turks, Iranians, Syrians, Arabs and Israelis as millions of them have been side by side prospering and expanding their influences together into their common future. That's what's going to happen.

The US won't be negatively influenced by one Chalabi after another, especially a Chalabi off of this here forum calling himself by n different names..