[Captain Kirk]

How you can possible object to a pre-emptive military action by a country that has been a victim of terrorism e.g Turkey?

[Enemy Of The State]

Its my opinion that we need to be over there protecting the Kurds against Turkey. We are trying to maintain the territorial integrity of Iraq and Turkey and Iraq are merely trying to decide which part of the pie they are going to divide up among themselves.

There has been a long history between Turkey and the Kurds and if Turkey gets in there, they are just going to annhialate the Kurds to keep them from creating an independent state.

[Golden Gate]

#2. That is a relevant and common question.
My quick answer for now is... Turkey (&the the Kurds, and all the others) need to have restraint, and cooperation with Bush & Blair as they conduct the war.

[DB]

"How you can possible object to a pre-emptive military action by a country that has been a victim of terrorism e.g Turkey?"

With our guys on the ground between them you can damn well understand why. We by invading Iraq are taking on the responsibility of sorting out the terrorists among the Kurds. If the Turks have information on known terrorist there they should share it with us. We don't need another blood war between the Kurds and the Turks in N. Iraq where we will get the blame for the result.

[nkycincinnatikid]

The Turkish line is that Kurds are merely " mountain Turks". This being the case there can be no legitamacy in fear of some more "mountain Turks" liberating themselves from Arab tyranny.Turkey should welcome that development, wouldn't you think?