Turkey has '140,000 troops on Iraq border'

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.eveningecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=14639914&p=y463996x&n=14640002

09/07/2007 - 2:25:10 PM

Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq but so far there have been no violations, Iraq’s foreign minister said today.

Hoshyar Zebari’s comments came amid calls by Turkey’s military for the government to give it the green light to carry out military operations in northern Iraqi against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

“Turkey is building up forces on the border. There are 140,000 soldiers fully armed on the border. We are against any military interference or violation of Iraqi sovereignty,” Zebari said in Baghdad. snip

Zebari, a Kurd from northern Iraq, said: “The Iraqi government try to diffuse the situation. The perfect solution is the withdrawal of the Turkish forces from the borders.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Interesting. Is Turkey going to cover the US

withdrawl?

[htuttle]

3. No, more likely they'll attack our sole factional ally in Iraq, aka the Kurds

And since we're likely to just stand there with our thumb up our ass trying to look like we have 'resolve', we'll do absolutely nothing and we'll lose that sole factional ally.

[RB TexLa]

2. And how many troops do the racists want to put on our border with Mexico?

[WilliamPitt]

4. Wasn't this story debunked some weeks ago?

[Old and In the Way]

5. Bush has got a real rubic's cube of a geo-political nightmare

that he single-handedly created. I'm confident that he can figure it out.




:sarcasm: