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To: FreedomPoster

I know. You were pointing out what a knucklehead that Bremer was. I still like to point out the betrayal of Turkey in forbidding one of our divisions (1st Inf Div?) passage to northern Iraq. I made a significant difference in the mop up campaign.


36 posted on 05/16/2015 10:19:18 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

They were strong allies against the Soviets during the Cold War. They were still under control of Kemalists, and were generally anti-Islamic secularists.

Those days are no more, and Islam is resurgent in Turkey after having been suppressed for ~100 years by the Ataturk and his successors.

This is not a good thing.


40 posted on 05/16/2015 11:36:32 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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