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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (57951)	11/20/2002 12:28:16 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine - What have you been smoking? You think Turks are worried that Saddam might invade them? Not one tiny little bit. What they are worried about is that as a result of the "regime change" in Iraq, they might be left with a Kurdish country in the northern part of Iraq, which then will fuel the separationist tendencies of its own Kurdish population in the South-East. Do you read anything but Debka and Imshin, the friendly Israeli blogger?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (57951)	11/20/2002 3:44:47 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "So Turkey is trying to cut the best deal for itself? Oh my, what a shock. As for the anti-war pronouncements, once again I spy some airspace between public pronouncements and private opinions." (1) You have no idea what the private opinions of the new Turkish regime is. If anything, they're dead set against a war with Iraq. (2) There is no reason to ruin relations with the US by explicitly saying "no" when the fact is that the US isn't going to invade Iraq anyway. John Keegan, probably the world's foremost military historian, agrees with me that there are no significant preparations: "No Sign of War Plan as Clock Ticks On" #reply-18253701 If the US begins to show signs of actually fighting a war, resistance to the war will increase, not decrease. The diplomats in Washington know this, which is why this is only a war of words. (Or did you see today's demobilization? It's a new low in the number of reserves mobilized, again.) -- Carl