[Happy2BMe]

Turkey made an historically HUGE mistake by slamming us on deploying into northern Iraq through their country - HUGE!

[An.American.Expatriate]

you don't know me, but PING!

[RoseofTexas]

Payback's a *itch!!

[EternalHope]

"There is no reason anymore for Washington to consider Turkey's interests in northern Iraq," a Turkish military source said. "If the United States acts alone in northern Iraq, then the Kurds will be the main military ally of Washington."

That's right. And the die is already cast.

Turkey would have been great to have as an ally. Too bad they chose the other side.

[BOBTHENAILER]

"If the United States acts alone in northern Iraq, then the Kurds will be the main military ally of Washington."

Well, duh. You make your bed with the islamic interests, you can sleep with your islamic interests. You can watch your stock market take a one day hit of 14%. You can kiss goodbye the good graces of world opinion.

As Clint Eastwood would have said to the Turkish Parliament, prior to the vote of rejection:

"Go ahead PUNK, make my day."

[steveegg]

Just another in a long, sad line of modern liberalism's "if it feels good now, do it" screwing an entire country.

[cynicom]

Let them eat turkey or cake or whatever. Write them off as losers and extortionists.

[TomGuy]

Kurdish forces have warned that they will treat Turkish troops crossing the border into Iraq as the enemy. The warning has alarmed Turkish military leaders, who have asked the Bush administration to intervene, Middle East Newsline reported.

Huh? The warning has alarmed Turkish military leaders, who have asked the Bush administration to intervene.

[Consort]

[Iscool]

And it sounds as tho these morons have high hopes of "meeting us in the desert" to combat Iraq and ultimately share the spoils of war...

Guess they were our allies til it became muslim against muslim...Their "Democratic muslim" gov't and populace are now siding with Sadam, Yasser and the rest of the unholy alliance...

Maybe instead of a democracy, they should have chosen a Republic...

[Blue Collar Christian]

GeeDubYa spelled it out right after 9-11.

Check one: ______ with us ______ against us

DUH!

[George W. Bush]

"There is no reason anymore for Washington to consider Turkey's interests in northern Iraq," a Turkish military source said. "If the United States acts alone in northern Iraq, then the Kurds will be the main military ally of Washington."

They're only now figuring this out? It really is amateur hour in Ankara.

"If Turkish troops enter the northern Iraq, this would cost Turkey," Ozkok was quoted as saying. "It wouldn't be appropriate for the TSK [Turkish military] to enter the northern Iraq under these conditions as it didn't get enough support from the United States."

He bought a vowel. No fair.

The military sources said the Gul government has been told that Washington does not plan to wait for a Turkish reversal of the parliamentary decision. They said the U.S. Defense Department has prepared plans to divert at least two divisions to Kuwait and airlift special operations forces from the Mediterranean over Israel and Jordan and directly to northern Iraq.

Yep. Since they forced us to by acting like Frenchmen.

"The greatest nightmare would come to be true if the United States goes ahead without Turkey and wins the war against Iraq," Turkish analyst Ali Nihat Ozcan said. "In this case, it will have no responsibility to ask Turkey's opinion on how to restructure Iraq."

Turkey deliberately chose this thing.

And it will be the Kurds who have the strong hand in shaping the new Iraq, not Turkey who can just sit home while the adults do business.

Buh-bye, Turkey. See you in the next regional conflict. Maybe you'll have learned something by then.

[valkyrieanne]

Are the Kurds really Maoist-Marxist commies? If so, what is the benefit here, especially as we are probably going to take on more Maoists in N. Korea down the road? Don't we open ourselves to blackmail from the Kurds, as in, "You leave the N. Koreans alone, or no oil?" This sounds extremely short-sighted on our part. Maybe more negotiation, more finesse, and less pressure with Turkey might have been more productive.

[dfwgator]

The Kurds are this year's version of the KLA. They will eventually turn on us and we are going to have to deal with them down the road when Saddam is but a faded memory.

[Mister Baredog]

"The greatest nightmare would come to be true if the United States goes ahead without Turkey and wins the war against Iraq

Isn't that what they voted for?

[joesnuffy]

Geraldo (the professional apologist for anti americans) apologizing for them now on Fox

[epluribus_2]

turkey and france have SO screwed themselves.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

"The greatest nightmare would come to be true if the United States goes ahead without Turkey and wins the war against Iraq," Turkish analyst Ali Nihat Ozcan said. "In this case, it will have no responsibility to ask Turkey's opinion on how to restructure Iraq."

Um, yeah...

[majordivit]

Ah..lesson no 1. about democracies. You can lose big time if representatives allow mob rule to decide how to vote in matters of national security.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Anti-Americanism has negative consequences -- now THERE'S a novel thought!

[sandydipper]

Turkey wants US to allow them to occupy Northern Iraq and ?? the oil fields - suprise suprise!! The Kurds want the oil fields and the Eastern 1/3 of Turkey.

We need to shut down any aide to Turkey and take the oil fields for ourselves.