Bush pledges US help to Turkey over Kurd rebels

[Judi Lynn]

Bush pledges US help to Turkey over Kurd rebels
(AFP)

22 July 2006

CRAWFORD, Texas - US President George W. Bush told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday that the United States will help Turkey in the face of attacks by Kurdish rebels, the White House said.

The two leaders also discussed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s upcoming trip to the Middle East and “ways to address the humanitarian needs of the Lebanese people” amid Israeli strikes, said spokeswoman Dana Perino.

“They also discussed the continuing PKK terrorist attacks against Turkey. The president told the prime minister that the United States will work with Turkey to deal with this terrorist threat,” said Perino.

The two leaders had also spoken on the telephone Thursday, after Ankara threatened a cross-border operation if Washington and Baghdad fail to crack down on the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
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[theoldman]

1. The decider had better make a good decision on this.

The Kurds in Iraq have been our best friends. Bush has to decide whether he is going to side with them or Turkey.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. I can guarantee what will happen.

like everything else he decides, his choice will be exactly the wrong one.

[SOS]

5. Bush couldn't find Turkey on a map

He will certainly screw this up.
And Iraq, as a nation, will cease to exist.
Fubar accomplished.

[Mika]

6. A full meltdown. Bushco will shit on everyone. The US will have NO friends

Only I$rael.

Mission accomplished.

[daleo]

11. He will decide with Turkey

They have more numbers, money, and guns.

[Vidar]

2. Remember the good old days when Saddam was gassing Kurds

with US-supplied weapons?

[Cha]

10. Time to turn on the

poor Kurds again!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Can't imagine the Kurds in Iraq going along with this decision . . .

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. More insurgents, more "terrorists", more bloodshed. Mission accomplished, my ass!

[AnOhioan]

7. The chimp continues to stoke the coals......

The US will suffer, the world will suffer.

[VegasWolf]

8. It just depends on which side offers Halliburton the most nobid contracts.

[uppityperson]

9. Mr.bush "Turkeys or Turds? I like Turkeys"

I wonder if he knows what a Kurdi is?

[Kahuna]

12. Be afraid, Turkey. Be very afraid when the bushies offer to "help"..

Look at how it turned out for Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel... :scared:

[Tempest]

13. Like father, like son

Yet another Bush turning his back on the very people they used.

Color me surprised.

[nealmhughes]

14. How odd, both Daddy and Junior Bush seem to think the Kurds were

the greatest allies in the world -- to poop on!

[LeftistGorilla]

15. Turkey is really...

scared of all the Kurdish nationalism brewing from Iraq...