Rice: Kurdish rebels are 'common threat' - will help in fight against PKK

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Gosh, I wonder how our "allies", the Kurds, will feel about this?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071102/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rice_23;_ylt=ApctjyQ2LDiOWyaX9kLRn.QE1vAI

ANKARA, Turkey - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Turkish officials Friday that Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq were a "common threat" and that the United States would help Ankara in its fight against them.

Speaking after meeting with both Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, Rice said she had emphasized that the United States is "committed to redoubling its efforts" to help Turkey in its struggle against the rebel fighters.

"We consider this a common threat, not just to the interests of Turkey but to the interests of the United States as well," she said at a joint news conference with Babacan. "This is going to take persistence and it's going to take commitment — this is a very difficult problem."

En route here, Rice told reporters in her traveling party that the United States, Turkey and Iraq will counter any attacks on Turkey by the rebels.

[shadowknows69]

1. Great, we're about to help Turkey ethnically cleanse the Kurds

Wasn't one of the reasons for liberating Iraq so that we could save the Kurds from Saddam who gassed them. Who wants to bet we lend T some white phosphorous rounds to help fight the "rebels"

[Solly Mack]

2. Don't forget this statement from last month

"The official added that Turkish frustration over the PKK was reaching a boiling point, and that the "only remedy" to the Armenia vote was US cooperation against the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq."

US vies to placate Turkey after 'genocide' vote



Manufactured to specs.

[Javaman]

3. sooooo...

we have to contribute to genocide in order to recognize it happened?

my brain hurts.

[Solly Mack]

4. The mind does wobble

[yurbud]

8. the Bushies are determined to re-enact every single atrocity Saddam did

[Basileus Basileon]

5. Well, there goes another bit of propaganda. Anyone remember "The Other Iraq?"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/16/60minutes/main2486679.shtml

[mmonk]

6. A leader would tell the Turks to stand down and the Kurds to ask the PKK to stand down

in this volatile situation.

[yurbud]

7. good idea--piss on the only group that likes us in Iraq