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When Turkey invades Iraq, will Cheney attack in both directions

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by heyabbott, Oct 17, 2007.

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  1. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Because we've decided to call an incident that happened 92 years ago genocide. You can thank the Armenian-American population that resides in districts represented by people on that one committee, many of them Californians, for that colossal and unproductive waste of time. And don't count on us going back and mentioning what happened to the Indians throughout the 1800s anytime soon. Better to point long withered fingers at some other country. Great job by the asshats in the House.

    Well, at least that's what Turkey wants you to think. It's also because the Kurds are very independent-minded people. They're pretty much on their own in Iraq, and want to bring in their brothers across the border into the fold.
     
    Flying Headbutt, Oct 17, 2007
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  2. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    This was guaranteed to be a fucked up situation when we promised Turkey we would not allow a Kurdish state in order to get Turkey to let us use their country as a staging point in the invasion of Iraq.

    If that sounds like we sold out any possible plan for peace in order to start a war, it's because we did.

    Whoops.
     
    zeke12, Oct 17, 2007
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  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Zeke, Zeke, Zeke:

    You Lefties get so worked up. Our Leaders have a simple solution to this indelicate situation.

    Invade Turkey!

    There. Feel better?
     
    Ace, Oct 17, 2007
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  4. Fenian_Bastard

    Fenian_Bastard Guest

    A lot of the liberal support for the launching of Operation Codpiece came from people who'd been standing by the Kurds since Daddy Bush last sold them out. This was the case for Hitchens, Peter Galbreath, David Phillips and, to some extent, Joe Biden. I think a lot of them frankly couldn't have cared less what happened elsewhere in Iraq as long as a Kurdish statelet of some sort could be established and maintained. (There is a moral argument to be made that the US owed the Kurds that much of a historical debt, too.) This was bound to piss off the Turks.
    Grown-ups in charge, once again.
     
    Fenian_Bastard, Oct 17, 2007
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  5. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    Moonlight on the Bosporus! A cruise to the Dardenelles! We're kicking ass!
     
    jgmacg, Oct 17, 2007
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  6. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    We also promised to get Turkey into the EU.

    Whoops.
     
    zeke12, Oct 17, 2007
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  7. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    I assumed you were kidding when I first read this, but now I'm not sure. You realize that you could say the same thing about any crime, right?
     
    Guy_Incognito, Oct 17, 2007
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  8. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    No. You rob or kill someone that threatens the society and harms individuals.

    The I-have-nothing-against-all-these-illegal-aliens-but-just-think-they-should-follow-the-law crowd should be demanding amnesty for these folks.

    Most are already employed -- that's why they are here -- so we could get them on the books and collect their taxes and take away the one stigma (they are committing a crime by being here illegally).

    Everyone is happy, right?
     
    Ace, Oct 17, 2007
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  9. andyouare?

    andyouare? Guest

    Wrong. Being in this country illegally is not a crime.

    Let my liberal friend Rudy Giuliani tell you all about it, via Glenn Beck:

     
    andyouare?, Oct 17, 2007
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  10. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    The day Turkey invades Iraq is the day oil hits $100.
     
    trifectarich, Oct 17, 2007
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  11. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    They invade the day before it hits 100
     
    heyabbott, Oct 17, 2007
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  12. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Nope, oil trading happens 24-7 across the world. The instant Turkey trips the wire, boom. We could literally wake up to $4 gas.

    Of course, that may be part of the plan, too.
     
    Football_Bat, Oct 18, 2007
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