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This is a live transcription from Barbara Starr's Pentagon reporting:B. STARR: Well, Don, at this hour, in fact, a top General here in the Pentagon is meeting with reporters in the briefing room, taking questions about the latest developments in Turkey. Lt. General Carter Ham, the Director of Operations on the Joint staff - struggling to explain a bit about how involved or not involved the US military plans to get in this situation, especially in that border region where Kurdish PKK rebels launching out of Northern Iraq are attacking into Turkey and Turkey is becoming extremely concerned, returning artillery shell fire back across the border. The US military is simply trying to stay out of the way.
Look - if that situation wasn't enough, we have the second situation in Turkey - this business of a Congressional resolution declaring as genocide the killing of Armenians by Turks during WWI. As a result of that problem, the Turks are threatening to cut off access to the critical airbase at Incirlik, Turkey. What is the latest there today? Well, the US military has very quietly confirmed they have issued a warning order to troops - to US troops - to be prepared to look at alternative air routes into Iraq without having to go into Turkey. About 70%, Don, of US military cargo into Iraq goes through Turkey or Turkish airspace. If Incirlik is cut off, the US has to be ready with other options.
And now indeed, a warning order has gone out to be so-called "prepared to execute other options". We're talking about looking for aircraft, fuel, cruise lines, air supply routes out of Europe. It will be much more expensive and much more time intensive for the war.
I have to say - I really think that the resolution against Turkey at this time was really, really stupid. I agree with Philip Geraldi at HuffPo:From the Turkish point of view, the United States is completely hypocritical. The United States became a great power through its genocide of the red Indians and is hardly in a good position to point the finger at others. It currently is fighting a self-declared and self-defined global war on terrorism in which it claims the right to attack terrorists anytime and anywhere.
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i can't help but think of what sibel edmonds has already revealed about what she knows about u.s.-turkey relationships, and that's not even taking into consideration what she HASN'T been able to tell us due to the gag order... add that to what continues to come out about turkey's role as an afghanistan drug transshipment point, the connections of bush fundraisers to cocaine, the recent twin crashes of cia-linked airplanes loaded with cocaine in mexico, and i wonder just how far the u.s. is willing to go in maintaining a relationship with turkey, a reason perhaps why the wh is so vociferously opposed to the armenian genocide resolution... as for blame for a rift in the relationship with turkey and increased costs for the illegal iraq war being blamed on the dems, the dems really don't have to work very hard these days to earn HEAPS of blame, given their treasonous performance over the past months...
p.s. glad to see you back and posting...
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