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To: JDN who wrote (194070)	1/25/2007 7:09:38 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793963

I cannot fathom the USA backing the Kurds over Turkey. Only if the Turks try to invade the Kurd area of Iraq and take it over.

To: JDN who wrote (194070)	1/25/2007 7:59:04 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793963

can't you guys in florida cut back on energy.. i do not think you listened to Bush two nights ago. we walk less reliance on oil and gas... gg FL NG fired generation to rise from 33% to 44% in 2015. Frank, this Bud's for you. Bookmark that FERC page!!! _____________________________________ Florida Power Demand: Power demand in peninsular Florida grew 4.3% per annum in the four years ending 2005, compared to the United States average of 2.6%, according to EIA statistics. The state's utilities have increasingly relied on gas-fired generation, which produced 33% of 2005 electricity output and is projected to hit 44% in 2015. The Florida Public Service Commission has noted that this trend could increase both reliability and pricing risks. ferc.gov

To: JDN who wrote (194070)	1/25/2007 2:34:24 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793963

Their beef is real (kurds in Turkey attempting to carve out territory from Turkey to form Kurdistan). The Turks' beef is real, but the Kurds' beef is real too. The Turkish history with the Kurds is terrible to this day. For years, they refused to even acknowledge that Kurds existed - they called them "Mountain Turks" instead. They refused to let them speak their own language and generally treated them as third class citizens. This is still true. Read Michael Yon's journal of traveling through war-blasted Turkish Kurdistan into the modern prosperity of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Turk's treatment of all the minority populations of Anatolia (all of whom were there thousands of years before the Turks) has been one of subjugation, ethnic cleansing and genocide.