100,000 Turkish Troops Ready to Invade


	100,000 Turkish Troops Ready to Invade

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10-30-2007 5:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ed0f326-c30b-4b3d-b458-ec1a901c6c99/7958D339-A7E6-4D3B-8229-099C688CCE1E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.atimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html">With 
                              more than 100,000 troops and all those F-16s, 
                              tanks and helicopter gunships massed on the 
                              Turkish-Iraqi border, the new George W Bush 
                              greater Middle East war - that is, the Turkish 
                              invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan - is ready to roll.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html">To say this is all part of a "structural 
                              crisis" between Turkey and the US would be the 
                              understatement of the century. Turkey is actually 
                              deciding nothing less than its real geopolitical 
                              position in a mesmerizing balancing act involving 
                              Iran, Israel, the Arab world, Europe, Russia and 
                              the US.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html">Iraqi Kurds definitely will not 
                              betray their cousins, the Turkish Kurds - although 
                              they did so, for instance, in 1992, when they 
                              collaborated with the Turkish military in an 
                              anti-PKK joint offensive. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html">This mini-war transcends the PKK. 
                              Ankara's ultimate nightmare is an independent 
                              Kurdish state in northern Iraq, a virtual 
                              certainty after the incorporation of oil-rich 
                              Kirkuk</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html">"vision" in fact presupposes the 
                              partition of Iraq.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak07.html"><I>"We have no friends other than the 
                              mountains."</I></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7958D339-A7E6-4D3B-8229-099C688CCE1E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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