Posted on 08/12/2010 1:32:19 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Thursday that it has obtained photographs showing the bodies of fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) allegedly killed by chemical weapons used by Turkey.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Somehow Bush will be blamed.
Id love it that this is from Haaretz. I hope the Israeli’s can stick it in Turkey’s eye for what the Ottomans did with the flotilla this spring.
Why would they use them, to strike fear into the rebels?
reprint from Duh! madg...
That, and the hope that dead men wouldn't tell tales.
Actually, nobody here cared about this when Bush was in office. At that time, Turkey was depicted as our freedom loving ally and the Kurds as “terrorists.” It is funny how so many here determine their foreign policy views on the Likud party line of the moment.
Rebels? How romantic! I remember not so long ago when the consensus here was that the Kurds in Turkey were “terrorists” and the Kurds in Iraq were “good guys.”
Turkey was never our ally - if they were they would of let our troops use their territory to go after Saddam.
Actually, they granted to permission for the U.S. airlift of troops in 2003 into Northern Iraq to pass over Turkish air space. This was a crucial element in the operation’s success. People here have such short memories!
The reason the Nazi atrocities were so shocking is that they were the one example in history of Caucasian "Christians" acting exactly like Arab Muslims acted in the past, and will act in the future if we don't stop them.
Remember, Nazi = White Muslim.
Muslim = Arab Nazi
That’s considered old fashioned hate speach and common sense.
Ah, our little nazi trollboy again. Enterprise still haven’t picked you up?
See? Some of us have quite good memory.
The PKK rebels are not the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria. The PKK rebels are a terrorist group created and funded by the Ruskies. Yes, PKK rebels may be kurdish, but they are commie kurds, and have no association with the Kurdish peoples of the area, militarily nor in governing the Kurds.
Actually you are either ignorant or for some strange reason seem to have things slightly backwards, particularly as you lump all "Kurds" together and have missed a lot of what has taken place between the U.S. and Turkey since 2001.
First off, although Turkey remained in NATO after 2003, Turkey-US relations became strained, and have remained so ever since Turkey refused to allow American forces to traverse her territory on their way into Iraq. That was the first anti-U.S. salvo coming from the new Islamic fundamentalist government of Turkey. I don't think Turkey was depicted, at any time, as our "freedom loving ally", and certainly not since that time, in spite of their continuation in NATO.
Meanwhile, in 2003, how did U.S. troops enter Iraq? Through its southern border and through airstrips in the territory of our "freedom loving ally" the Kurds in northern Iraq.
As for the PKK in Turkey, which is not even allowed to officially operate in northern Iraq, that one group - not all "Kurds" - was designated a terrorist group, for its terrorist activities in Turkey.
Get your facts straight.
Now regardless of those facts, nothing should condone Turkey's use of chemical weapons.
The U.S. could have never even flown those troops in from the north had not the Turkish government granted use of Turkish air space. This was crucial to the easy victory in the North. On the other hand, for those who take their marching orders from that ungrateful receipts of U.S. welfare, like Bibi, these facts are poured down the Orwellian memory hole.
LOL! For a newbie, you are a hilarious comedian. Now....that we're done laughing at your devastating (and extremely subtle) wit can we debate the facts? Did Turkey provide crucial flyover rights or didn't it?
What does that have to do with the alleged use of chemical weapons?
We did not want to take them in by air. We wanted to land them by ship in a Turkish port and take them by land into Iraq west of Baghdad. That was going to be one whole division. The air strips in Kurdistan was what we were left with, not what we had wanted to start with. Thanks to Turkey.
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