BAGHDAD, June 5, 2008

Report: Iran, Turkey Strike Rebels In Iraq

Turkish TV Says Two Countries Have Been Sharing Intel, And Plan More Attacks Inside Iraq

  • Fighters of anti-Iranian Kurdish rebel group PEJAK sit at their camp in Qandil mountains in Iraq, Sunday, May 4, 2008. Turkish television reported Thursday, June 5, 2008 that Turkish and Iranian forces had conducted joint strikes against rebels operating in northern Iraq. Photo

    Fighters of anti-Iranian Kurdish rebel group PEJAK sit at their camp in Qandil mountains in Iraq, Sunday, May 4, 2008. Turkish television reported Thursday, June 5, 2008 that Turkish and Iranian forces had conducted joint strikes against rebels operating in northern Iraq.  (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)

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(CBS/AP)  A Turkish TV station is quoting a senior military commander as saying that Turkey and Iran have carried out coordinated strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.

CNN-Turk television reports that Gen. Ilker Basbug has confirmed for the first time that the two countries share intelligence against the rebels.

He said the two countries plan to launch more coordinated operations against the rebel group in the future.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has been fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984 from bases in northern Iraq.

The Iranian army frequently shells villages in the mountains of northern Iraq, where it alleges that rebels from PEJAK, or the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, are based.

CBS News producer Randall Joyce said Iraqi officials would not immediately confirm the strikes Thursday, but there have been recent reports that the various Kurdish factions fighting cross border insurgencies might be trying to unite in some fashion.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military said Thursday it had captured two Shiite militia suspects south of Baghdad.

A military statement says one of the men is an Iranian-trained "special groups" leader, and the other is a top weapons smuggler and financier. It says both men surrendered when American soldiers stormed their homes in separate raids early Thursday.

The U.S. uses the label "special groups" to describe Shiite fighters who are defying a cease-fire order by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Many of them are believed to have fled recent fighting in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.

In other developments:

  • A military jury on Wednesday acquitted a Marine intelligence officer of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis. The seven officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths to come out of the war. Grayson, who has always maintained he did nothing wrong, was not present at the scene of the killings of men, women and children on Nov. 19, 2005, in Haditha. He was accused of telling a sergeant to delete photographs of the dead from a digital camera and laptop computer.

  • A senior Iraqi lawmaker says parliament has approved a bill to combat oil smuggling. Abdul-Hadi al-Hassani says the measure provides for stiff penalties for oil smugglers ranging from fines to imprisonment and confiscation of boats used for smuggling. To become a law, the measure needs the signature of Iraq's three-member presidential council. Parliament approved the bill Wednesday.

  • Iraq's Foreign Ministry says the United Arab Emirates' top diplomat has arrived in Baghdad on the first visit to Iraq by a Gulf minister since the 2003 invasion. The Emirates foreign minister, Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, landed in Baghdad early Thursday. Iraq's deputy foreign minister, Labid Abbawi, says Abdullah is in Iraq to discuss "bilateral relations." He says the UAE minister will meet with Iraq's president, prime minister, foreign minister and parliament speaker.

  • The IOC has provisionally suspended Iraq's national Olympic committee. Today's decision follows the Iraqi government's recent dissolution of the national body. The International Olympic Committee says the move was political interference and a clear breach of the national body's autonomy. The IOC says it won't recognize the interim committee appointed by the Iraqi government.

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    by omnibus66 June 5, 2008 7:46 AM PDT
    So now Iran is cooperating with Turkey. Let''s ask McCain if that means that we will have to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Turkey too?

    Eventually Iraq will be a Shia state,closely allied with Iran, regardless of who becomes the next president. The sooner we get out, the better. Wasted lives, wasted money, wasted effort. WHY?

    Bush has dug this huge hole, McSame wants a bigger shovel.
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    by deacon20081 June 5, 2008 7:58 AM PDT
    The Propaganda Machine is alive and active huh?
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    by ioweign June 5, 2008 8:09 AM PDT
    Bush has dug this huge hole, McSame wants a bigger shovel.

    Posted by omnibus66 at 07:46 AM : Jun 05, 2008


    155,000 US hostages are being held in Iraq by Bush/Cheney cartel...
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    by kretos-2009 June 5, 2008 8:11 AM PDT
    thats good news !
    backstabber bush administration take a lesson !!!

    Iran and Turkey stands against terrorism and their supporters !!!!
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    by flyboyozw June 5, 2008 8:33 AM PDT
    thats good news !
    backstabber bush administration take a lesson !!!

    Iran and Turkey stands against terrorism and their supporters !!!!

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    Posted by kretos at 08:11 AM : Jun 05, 2008

    Are you really that stupid??? The only reason Iran is helping is so it will be easier to walk into Iraq if Osama Obama get elected and withdraws our troops; In which case at some point in the future we will have to go back in. Not only that but anyone who really thinks that Iran is against terrorism is really living with their head up where the sun never shines!!!
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    by shingles1 June 5, 2008 8:56 AM PDT
    And where did the Iraqi Prime Minister spend his twenty years of exile?

    Iran and Syria.

    The militias for the two main Shiite parties that make up Maliki''s Iraqi government were both created in Iran. Iran ALREADY has strong and intimate connections to the current Iraqi government, even though people like flyboy like to pretend otherwise.
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    by flyboyozw June 5, 2008 9:04 AM PDT
    MCVet, I think you smoked just a little too much weed and your brain is toast. First of all look up Fascism in a frickin dictionary you moron. Iran has been trying to take over Iraq for many years. Now if they play their cards right they will be able to walk right in. Oh yeah and by the way, we do have troops in Afghanistan looking for Obama%u2019s cousin Osama, so he isn%u2019t the only one looking. It is the misguided liberals that have listen to the liberal propaganda machine that can tell the players, and that comes shining through by the fact that you think that Iran is talking to Iraq and helping Turkey because they what to be %u201Cgood neighbors%u201D.
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    by June 5, 2008 9:33 AM PDT
    The prestige of the U.S. has sunk so low in the mideast that two third world countries can invade a country that is being rebuilt at a cost of over 4000 American lives and trillions of dollars from hardworking Americans, and they do it with impunity, daring the U.S. to complain! We had a no-fly zone once, let''s have a no-go zone now. Keep your troops out of this country or pay a price, immediate, sure and punitive. They have given us no help in stabilizing Iraq; they have given us no help finding bin Laden; they have given us no help beyond lip service. What was it Bush threatened? Any country that harbors terrorists......It''s time to keep our word and do the nasty. How much longer do we let the mideast bully kick sand in our face?
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    by superdem June 5, 2008 9:35 AM PDT
    Well, there WAS an Iraqi leader who had CONTROL in Iraq, who was NOT Shiite, who held the Islamic fundamentalists down, who opposed Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, and who held Iran in check, too...hmmm...what was his name ? Oh, that''s right, Saddam Hussein. Bush hung him. What a great idea !
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    by tawpdawg11 June 5, 2008 9:46 AM PDT
    This is great news! Now instead of WE attack Iran, IRAN will fight for US in Iraq. You just never know for sure how things might work out.
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    by superdem June 5, 2008 9:46 AM PDT
    One of Bush''s "reasons" for invading Iraq was because Saddam had gassed the Kurds. Why did Saddam gas the Kurds ? Because they support IRAN in the Iran-Iraq war. So NOW, our ally Turkey, is also bombing and killing the Kurds, and we not only don''t care, we supply the Turks with bombing coordinates. AND, Turkey, our great ally is working with IRAN, our greatest enemy, according to Senator John McCain, to kill the Kurds. According to American principles, the ones I was taught in school, the only good guys in ANY of this are the KURDS, but of course we don''t really give a *** about them, as we have proven. The only thing I don''t really understand is why Iran now wants to kill Kurds, when they were allies before. Well, that, and why the United States thinks it has any business in any of this.
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    by ajaxtheleast June 5, 2008 9:55 AM PDT
    Bothers he11 out of Repubs but they
    never let on.

    A magic potion to erase that first
    night of bombing a quiet, defensless
    capital would have them scrambling
    for it.

    Merciful dems allow their game of
    "forgeting" that it was all over that
    very first night and that there is some
    sub-something here and now to be argued,
    and that the winning or losing of which
    argument could today make Bush a war
    criminal or a liberator.

    Sorry, Bush took care of that himself
    six years ago.

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    by kaiyo4u June 5, 2008 9:55 AM PDT
    For you guys that think we will leave Iraq with Obama as president... Not really, just another cog in the wheel of the machine. It will be business as usual...
    The only true answer is someone who will hold to the Constitution... But of course the sheeple want to told what to do and not live like Free men in this country....
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    by clestes-2009 June 5, 2008 10:11 AM PDT
    Sounds like to me the middle east is moving on and taking care of its own business, which it should.

    The US should support those efforts by diplomacy, not military means. Israel is much safer when there is peace into the region, not war. After 60 years, there is no chance Israel is going to be dismantled. Most of its population is resigned to the fate of giving up some of its claims to establish peace.

    The whole region is tired of the costs of war. Only a small minority want to continue the fighting. Those few minority should be ignored, pushed aside and left to howl their dire warning of death and destruction, as if that has not been happening and has not been proven a failure to establish long term peace.

    The problems of the middle east are unique to that region and only they can solve them. It is way past time for the west to pull its armies out. Every other country has realized this and has done so.

    Only shrub remains as blindly stubborn now as ever. A permenent reminder of what happens when the wrong person it put in power and allowed to run rampent.
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    by edward1975-2009 June 5, 2008 10:15 AM PDT
    This is going to stir things up a bit. These two countries have committed an act of war, going to be interesting to see what our response is, seeing we are the security force of Iraq. This could get nasty quick.
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    by blondbeotch June 5, 2008 10:17 AM PDT
    McVet (the imposter) OMG, I''m so sick of you!!!
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    by floydzeppl June 5, 2008 10:31 AM PDT
    Lets see, Bush call Saddam evil because he gassed the Kurds "aka Kurdins Rebels now" but when Turkey and Iran - who''ve been doing it for 80 years now) act he remains silent.

    Hmmmm...
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    by clestes-2009 June 5, 2008 10:38 AM PDT
    Edward1975,

    Turkey is an ally. That is going to be a primary problem in framing any kind of response. shrub can''t attack Iran, claiming it is invading Iraq without addressing what the hell Turkey is doing working with Iran on the PKK problem.

    My guess, and it is based on extensive reading outside the mainstream US press, is nothing. There are several reasons for this.

    1. As I said, Turkey is an ally. Can''t afford to interfere.

    2. Our troops are already stretched thin and have their hands full.

    3. The election is in 5 months. To interfere by sending troops to defend the Iraq border, will send the US troop death rate back up and cause untold more problems leading to more US troop death.

    4. Petraeus has an eye on his possible political future and since he is now over all the mediterrean operations, he won''t do anything to bring calamity on himself.

    No, this is a situation where the best course is to do nothing.
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    by carpriddler June 5, 2008 11:03 AM PDT
    When you fail to plan you plan to fail.
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    by yongamerica June 5, 2008 11:05 AM PDT
    Iraq government is responsible for the protection of its own boarders, not the US. The worst thing that could happen now is the lack of response to these Iraqi boarder violations by both countries being construed as cooperation with these two countries in hostilities against the Kurdish people.

    So far the US has had very little diplomatic effect in keeping its Turkish ally from pursuing terrorists and rebels from using the Iraqi boarder as a safe haven, similar to what the Afghanistan Taliban is doing in the boarders of Pakistan.
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    by bearsfaninoh June 5, 2008 11:06 AM PDT
    Why doesnt Iran, Turkey and Iraq just give the Kurds their own small piece of land? Isn''t that what they all Israel to do for the Palestinians? Hypocrites...
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    by impeach_w June 5, 2008 11:12 AM PDT
    You all should look up who created the borders of these countries. Only then will you see that western society created this problem by not seperating these rival factions.
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    by impeach_w June 5, 2008 11:17 AM PDT
    Iraq was carved out of the Ottoman Empire by the French and British as agreed in the Sykes-Picot Agreement. On 11 November 1920 it became a League of Nations mandate under British control with the name "State of Iraq".

    Main article: Iraqi revolt against the British
    Britain imposed a H%u0101shimite monarchy on Iraq and defined the territorial limits of Iraq without taking into account the politics of the different ethnic and religious groups in the country, in particular those of the Kurds and the Assyrians to the north. During the British occupation, the Shi''ites and Kurds fought for independence
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    by briannorwood June 5, 2008 11:20 AM PDT
    "Turkey and Iran have carried out coordinated strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. "

    THE SURGE IS WORKING! THE SURGE IS WORKING! THE SURGE IS WORKING!

    Now our ally Turkey is working with Iran to fight Kurds in Iraq.

    WHAT NEXT?
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    by demslie June 5, 2008 11:32 AM PDT
    The US invaded IRAQ and Democrats screamed Bloody Murder at America. IRAN invades IRAQ and Democrats are only mad at America. O''Bama said he would meet with the terrorist leaders "Anywhere Anytime". When O''Bama went to IRAQ the only people he refused to meet with were American Soldiers. The Anti-American Terrorist Loving Atheist Anything Sexuall Democrats are not endearing themselves to the American Voters.
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    by impeach_w June 5, 2008 11:48 AM PDT
    As a republication, I and every true American was (or should have been)screaming bloody murder When we invaded Iraq.

    We are only Reaping what we have sown since before 1920.
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    by skyhawk761 June 5, 2008 12:14 PM PDT
    Posted by demslie at 11:46 AM

    Please tell me you really don''t believe the C R A P you post. No one can really be that ignorant can they?
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    by impeach_w June 5, 2008 12:18 PM PDT
    I would never vote for BUSH EVER, I thought he was evil before the first election and I knew Cheney was evil. All the idiots that ever voted for W can blame themselves for our misery as I do.

    My Dad actually said he would divorce my Mom if she didn''t vote for Bush. She didn''t vote for him (thankfully) but he did and got the divorce! As far as Im concerned though, he fought for this country and he can vote to ruin it as he pleases. Doesn''t mean I don''t blame people like him for this *****!
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    by noloyalisti June 5, 2008 12:45 PM PDT
    We liberals and progressive Democrats need to get this news about the Iraq debacle back into the news. It is what McSame and his crime cabal are all about.

    We the taxpayers are paying for all this murder and the inside deals of the GOP war criminals and the corporate war profiteers. Gas at $4 a gallon. Mission Accomplished!
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    by Latrocinor June 5, 2008 2:09 PM PDT
    Posted by demslie at 11:46 AM

    Please tell me you really don''''t believe the C R A P you post. No one can really be that ignorant can they?

    Posted by skyhawk761
    .. .. ..
    Isn''t that the same thing people ask you?
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    by Latrocinor June 5, 2008 2:11 PM PDT
    C''''mon John tell me we are still winning!

    Regards,

    Posted by Nancy_Naive
    .. .. ..

    Winning what?
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    by noloyalisti June 5, 2008 4:00 PM PDT
    Don''t forget the GOP occupation quagmire is still sucking us dry. Don''t let anyone forget about the War Party and their candidate Bomb, bomb, bomb McSame.
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    by impeach_w June 5, 2008 4:37 PM PDT
    You all should look up who created the borders of these countries. Only then will you see that western society created this problem at the begining by not seperating these rival factions.

    Iraq was carved out of the Ottoman Empire by the French and British as agreed in the Sykes-Picot Agreement. On 11 November 1920 it became a League of Nations mandate under British control with the name "State of Iraq".

    Main article: Iraqi revolt against the British
    Britain imposed a Hashimite monarchy on Iraq and defined the territorial limits of Iraq without taking into account the politics of the different ethnic and religious groups in the country, in particular those of the Kurds and the Assyrians to the north. During the British occupation, the Shiites and Kurds fought for independence
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    by robroyh390 June 5, 2008 4:41 PM PDT
    Winning what?


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    Posted by bhoogren at 02:11 PM : Jun 05, 2008"

    I''ll be sure to pass the question on to MAgoo - he''s the one who claimed you''re winning
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    by smirk5 June 5, 2008 6:20 PM PDT
    McCain/Bush won''t leave Iraq until it''s safe from it''s neighbors. That will take 100 years.
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    by kretos-2009 June 5, 2008 9:12 PM PDT
    ciestes,
    The whole region is tired of the costs of war. Why should Israel care we pay for everything for them.

    Posted by dmw1167


    EXACTLY !!!
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    by mcvet June 5, 2008 9:31 PM PDT
    McCain/Bush won''''t leave Iraq until it''''s safe from it''''s neighbors. That will take 100 years.


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    Posted by Smirk5 at 06:20 PM : Jun 05, 2008
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    Uh that war has been going on now for 1500 years hasn''t it??? LOL Ah Iraq! The LIE that just keeps on giving!!
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    by mcvet June 5, 2008 9:33 PM PDT
    Isn''''t that the same thing people ask you?


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    Posted by bhoogren at 02:09 PM : Jun 05, 2008
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    Strange but ONLY Nazi''s ask him that? Oop''s guess I let it out of the bag huh??? Well since it''s out let''s give everyone a big SIEG HEIL!! GOOD LITTLE FACIST!! Say what did you think about yet ANOTHER report saying your fuhrer LIED us into this mess.. YEP and TWO REPUBLICAN''s... you know there are a few of them left, they voted for the report. NOT GOOD FOR THE "PARTY" huh??? Oh well... sieg heil y''all
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    by mcvet June 5, 2008 9:57 PM PDT
    Folks, WE the PEOPLE, need to start giving SERIOUS thought to what we are going to do with these criminals, Bush and Cheny, who LIED us into this mess. At this point the evidence that they just flat OUR RIGHT lied to us causing this nation untold problems can not be overlooked. The LAST thing we can allow them to do is just go back to their corporate board rooms and relax in the lap of greed! Anyone who thinks that is fair should have to visit a VA Hospital and LOOK at what they have done with their lies.
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    by vnveteran72 June 5, 2008 10:39 PM PDT
    Folks, WE the PEOPLE, need to start giving SERIOUS thought to what we are going to do with these criminals, Bush and Cheny, who LIED us into this mess. At this point the evidence that they just flat OUR RIGHT lied to us causing this nation untold problems can not be overlooked. The LAST thing we can allow them to do is just go back to their corporate board rooms and relax in the lap of greed! Anyone who thinks that is fair should have to visit a VA Hospital and LOOK at what they have done with their lies.


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    Posted by MCVet at 09:57 PM : Jun 05, 2008
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    And they''re not done yet. Knowing they face War Crimes Trials after the Democratic Sweep in November, I''m looking for a massive False Flag Attack, that''ll give the Little Drunken AWOL/Deserter the reason he needs to declare a "National Emergency", suspend the Elections, Congress, and consolidate power under a
    Martial Law Police State Dictatorship. If you haven''t got your guns, ammo, and equipment ready, you better do so pronto, because it''s going to go down sometime real soon. Don''t say nobody told you so.
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    by thisisfunny June 6, 2008 12:16 AM PDT
    Once again the kangaroo military justice system finds a marine officer not guilty of tampering with evidence. Can these people ever be found guilty because up to now only about 10 lower level flunkies have been found guilty....What a sham no wonder these abuses continue because they know they can get away with killing innocent folks.
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    by jim252950 June 6, 2008 12:32 AM PDT
    We forget that Russia aggressed into Afghanistan and that Sadaam agressed into Kuwait. The Russians were after Iranian oil and Sadaam was after Kuwaiti oil. These aggressions were attempts to take over the wealth of other nations, just like Hitler did in WWII. Someone once said that if we do not learn from history, then we are destined to repeat it. Please, lets learn from their behaviors of who is for peace and who is for war and lets make our decisions based on who wants to live side by side in peace and lets support those nations who choose a peaceful coexistence, i.e. Israel, U.S., Kuwait, Jordan, etc. ad finitum; and conversely, lets not support those who want war or who will not work towards peace, i.e. Iran, Syria, etc.

    Take care, JIm
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    by incog-nito June 6, 2008 12:53 AM PDT
    The U.S. has a real problem in its hands with Iraq, not unlike Vietnam. There is no real good way for the U.S. to extricate itself from the situation without being perceived as "losing".

    The U.S. learned the wrong lesson from Vietnam. One would think that from that experience, one would think very carefully before going in, and plan for every possible contigency. Instead, the (wrong) lesson it learned is to avoid humiliation, stay and try to "win" at all cost, even when there is nothing to be "won" and no longer a reason to stay there.

    Only when the public outcry becomes too great that the U.S. will begin pulling out, victory or not. Of course some people will then find reason to blame the "pacifists", and again the wrong lesson will be learned.
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    by ghostcommand June 6, 2008 1:41 AM PDT
    What will Thing bush, Thing cheney, and thing McCain say about the Iranians and the Turks working together? Do you think they will be verbally blistered like they did Obama when he stated he would be willing to talk with the Iranians?
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    by decotoguy June 6, 2008 3:16 AM PDT
    I see no problems here,just stay the course,another 5,10 or 20 years.The French will come to OUR rescue,and together WE''LL reap the OIL of WAR...
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    by fireceos June 6, 2008 3:39 AM PDT
    vnveteran72

    Your commentary was enlightening and frightful, but I think I agree. Never thought quite that way before. I heard that Obama and McCain were ''briefed'' on something of superior classification, and to my knowledge, a Presidential candidate has never been briefed in this way. So, something''s getting ready to happen, something BIG, or they wouldn''t prepare BOTH Presidential candidates who at this time have no control.

    If Bush suspends elections for ANY reason, in order to remain in power, I fear MASS CHAOS, the likes we''ve never, ever seen.

    We need a new plan for a new democratic government. Like, work on it, a new, updated, simpler plan, and at some point, just do away with the old, and put in the new plan.
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    by ajaxtheleast June 6, 2008 4:10 AM PDT
    With PKK enemies of Turkey, Iran
    friends of Turkey, PEJAK enemies of
    Iran and PKK friends of PEJAK . . .

    Let them all fight!

    Trying to figure out who to shoot
    going by "The enemy of my enemy is
    my friend" they''ll all be dead.

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    by petro49l June 6, 2008 10:55 AM PDT
    Bin Laden must not be a believer in weight lifting or steroids. Homosexuals like him usually oppose the pink stuff (anabolics). His weakling strategies only indulge in mayhem and chaos. The Coalition should boot his girlfriends (Al Qada) out of Iraq.
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    by impeach_w June 6, 2008 11:16 AM PDT
    First off, Iraq invaded Kuwait the first time because Saddam asked Kuwait to forgive thier war debt from fighting Iran. Kuwait said they would rather see Every woman in Bagdad become a $10whore to pay the debt. Iraq then invaded.

    As for Isreal:JERUSALEM - An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks %u201Cunavoidable%u201D given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert%u2019s deputies said Friday.
    %u201CIf Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective,%u201D Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

    %u201CAttacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable,%u201D said the former army chief who has also been defense minister.

    We will then come to the rescue!
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    by telecom_1 June 6, 2008 1:39 PM PDT
    Iranian Police Chief Jailed After Being Caught Nude With 6 Naked Women in Tehranian House of Prostitution http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351301,00.html
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