Did you hear about Turkey invading Iraq?
As presidential candidate John McCain (shown here searching GWB for WMDs) claims that the U.S. has already succeeded in Iraq, The fact that Turkey launched an invasion of Northern Iraq seems to have escaped the U.S. Media…
Turkey’s Defense minister last week resisted American pressure to withdraw and rejected the idea of timetables, declaring that the troops would not withdraw from Iraq until their mission is complete (sounds vaguely familiar…).
The international media is following the story almost as intently as if it involved a president and a blowjob. But for some reason, the American media finds that a photo of Barrack Obama in African garb is more newsworthy.
Putting Iraq back in the American consciousness would harm McCain and the GOP even further, as it would point out once again that every decision (including the surge) has been disastrous:
“How great can the situation in Iraq be when our NATO ally has invaded the country we militarily occupy in order to kill guerrillas harbored by our Iraqi Kurdish allies, who have been slipping across the border for which we are responsible in order to kill dozens of NATO troops in eastern Anatolia?”
In the words of a Middle East expert
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