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this is potentially a hell of a lot more serious than inconveniencing our battle plans. turkey -- you can take this to the bank -- plans to end up owning the northern iraqi oilfields.

we're gonna be shooting at turks before this thing is over. here's hoping we don't try to get permission from france first. or its bathhouse (or is it ba'athhouse?), the u.n.

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[ez]

this is potentially a hell of a lot more serious than inconveniencing our battle plans. turkey -- you can take this to the bank -- plans to end up owning the northern iraqi oilfields.

we're gonna be shooting at turks before this thing is over.

I agree that is a real possibility. Turkey is acting like it intends to secure Northern Iraq alone. They probably feel we cannot muster sufficient forces there to oppose them, but we could seriously augment Kurdish forces if necessary.

[First_Salute]

Turkey is our very good ally. It is their right as a sovereign nation to determine how and when they may wish to participate as an ally.

There is quite a lot that they have sacrificed for us; more than the American public has ever appreciated.