Is it possible?
I am determined to not sound as if I am a right-wing version of the loathsome conspiracy theory nuts that would have people believe Bush and Cheney were in frog suits setting charges along the levees in New Orleans during the storm. However ...
Let me first set the stage. By all the media accounts I have encountered - not to mention General Patraeus - things on the ground in Iraq are going "better." I flank the word with the dubious quotation marks because "better" can be viewed as a rather subjective term given the point at which we were at. That being said it would seem that the "clear, hold, build" policy that worked so well in the An Bar province, and was subsequently exported to other regions via the surge, has resulted in weekly deaths being at all time lows; indigenous tribal leaders are siding with US forces in significant numbers in combating Al Qeada; and there are reports that Al Qeada is suffering larger casualty rates.
Now enter this - Members of Turkey's government are urging the full parliament to authorize a Northern invasion to Kurdish held Iraq and the proposal has popular public support. Officials said the Turkish military has deployed tens of thousands of troops, backed by attack helicopters, main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery, in forward positions along the Iraqi border. They went on to say the Turkish force could cross the Iraqi border and attack the Kurdish Workers Party (The "PKK" which I will describe in a minute) within hours of any order. The Prime Minister says such a move will be decided after November. Also, they have threatened to embargo all US military cargo currently transported through their country. The hamper such a move would put on our war efforts can only be descibed as catastrophic - Turkey has served as the route for 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq. And about one-third of U.S. military fuel as well as 95 percent of new vehicles designed to resist improvised explosive devices in Iraq pass through Turkey. Not good.
Apparently since 1984 the Turkish government has been fighting a separatist political faction, the PKK, which has its current base in Northern Iraq. The PKK has made several raids and committed several terrorists attacks into Turkey proper over the years and they have not ceased during our war in Iraq. What has changed is that Turkey's retalitorial responses, which in the past has involved moving in with as many as 50,000 troops, have been tempered by Washington in fear that Turkish troops in Iraq would upset the most peaceful region of the nation - Kurd held territory in the North.
So why all of a sudden is Turkey considering parliamentary approval for a fresh offensive into Iraq and threatening to cut off their country as a vital supply route for US forces in combat? If you guessed the US House resolution, set to be voted on soon, that condemns the Ottoman Empire as committing an act of genocide against 1.5 million Armenians in 1915, then you guessed correctly. So I ask, is it possible that comrade Pelosi and company decided to schedule this vote - and it IS her driving this over the objections of the White House - in order to ensure continued or increased chaos in Iraq in the run up to the 08' election? Seeing the improvements post surge has she sought to guarantee chaos will return (or continue depending on who you believe)? In a past essay I have accused the Democratic party, and more specifically its elected leadership, of willingly allowing US military deaths in order to further their political fortune, and I believe this to be part and parcel of that traitorous pattern. It boggles the mind to think Pelosi gives as much or more weight to passing a resolution which labels a now non-existent government as genocidal, as she does the catastrophic war time geopolitical ramifications such a resolution would surely incur.
It's my "theory", but one that happens to fit the facts as we know them. With all that is going on in the world can anyone possibly believe that the madam Speaker of the House finds that this resolution is the most valuable use of her time - based SOLELY out of a historical humanitarian concern that the Armenians be validated in their claims? Please. It's laughable on its face ... and so is her patriotism.
FR
Side note - I posted an article on the right for your own reading (and it's where I got the bulk of my information), but Titus, you need to explain to me how to set it as a link using a phrase or word rather than the URL I cut and pasted.
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I refuse to give Pelosi that much credit, as she simply isn't that smart.
Turkey has had the issues with the Kurds since before the Ottoman empire was formed. The Kurdish minority has never had the voice they want in ANY nation they find themselves in (Syria, Turkey, Iraq)I recall telling you this at length on your MS patio months before the Iraqi invasion as just another issue among many that the Bush administration hadn't considered prior to March of '03.
Is Pelosi doing this to make the Bush administration look bad? Yes, without question... but as part of a conspiracy to prolong the war in Iraq at the cost of American lives and dollars? Like I said... she isn't that intelligent, so thus she isn't that farthinking and she certainly isn't that capable of planning.
This isn't a failing of Pelosi nearly as much as it is a failing of Bush planning. She's not making it easier... but we KNEW a democratic Iraq would engender resentment in Turkish Kurds (especially if the Kurds gained a degree of autonomy in Iraq).
There is also the question of just how much the PKK is actually hurting the Turks from Iraq. Turkey has the right to defend itself as much as any other nation, and the PKK has been linked to the deaths of dozens in Turkey since '05... and as you said, the PKK is operating out of Iraq. Isn't it there right to take defense out of their country out of the hands of US troops in Iraq and into their own?
Wasn't that part of our own justification for unilateral action against Saddam?
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