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Politics : The Liberation of Iraq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (276)	3/22/2003 9:16:57 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 908

The Turks are "tweaking" us. They didn't get any money out of this due to their own parliament voting down US forces in the region.. So now they put troops into the north in order to see if they can create enough concern amongst US leadership that they get their pay off... All under the guise of claiming they are there to stabilize the border (and not to assert defacto control over the big oid fields in Mosul) Iran apparently had a meeting with Turkish officials to discuss the Kurdish issue, since Iran has it's own kurdish problem.. This is obviously going to become a big issue in the future since the Kurds are the largest ethnicity without their own country. The US goal is to permit them to form a highly autonomous region within Iraq. And it's in their interest to do so, since all of the region's oil is dependent upon being transited through either Turkey, Syria, or Iraq. But there's still the principle of "the more you stir it, the more it stinks" and the Turks and Iranians could create the very condition they seek to avoid. Hawk