“Kurdish separatist rebels said on Friday they were crossing back into Turkey to target politicians and police after Ankara said it was preparing to attack them in the mountains of northern Iraq. As regional tensions rose, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan cautioned that relations between Ankara and Washington were in danger over a U.S. congressional resolution branding as genocide massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915,” nearly 100 years ago.
“Washington harbours growing concerns about the possibility of a major Turkish military incursion to crush Kurdish rebels seeking a homeland in eastern Turkey. U.S. officials fear such an action could destabilise a relatively peaceful area of Iraq.”
Now, why is any of this happening?
This is happening because the Democrats — who don’t have the guts to actually vote to de-fund the war in Iraq — are doing a sideshow here of bringing up a resolution that’s already been passed and already been signed twice in this country, condemning Turkey for the genocide of the Armenians in 1915.
So this is being done deliberately to sabotage relations between the United States and Turkey.
Turkey, of course, is crucial in terms of getting supplies and materiel into Iraq from the United States for the troops, to keep ’em resupplied and so forth.
This is just dastardly what these people are doing.
Now, later, this story came across the wire:
“Oil prices extended their rise on Monday after closing at a record high to end last week amid worries that supplies are insufficient for coming winter demand. Pirces has also risen last week on concerns over the conflict between Turkey and Kurds in northern Iraq. … U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday urged Turkey to show restraint in its response to attacks from Kurdish rebels, but Turkish leaders have appeared to be less receptive to Washington’s appeals since a committee of U.S. lawmakers passed a resolution last week labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of Armenians by the Ottomans — a characterization that Turkey rejects.”
So the Turks are telling Condoleezza, you know, “Take it somewhere else. You guys are going to try to offend us and embarrass us on the world stage. We’re one of your allies here.“
They are a, quote, unquote, “moderate” Muslim nation.
Let’s call this what it is. This is Nancy Pelosi’s war now.
She’s doing everything she can to encourage this little incursion by Turkey into northern Iraq after the Kurds and to disrupt the supply lines — and then there’s this.
“Democrats Press on with Genocide Bill, Despite Turkish Fury.” Pelosi said, “Some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values — Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, torture. … All those issues are about who we are as a country,” and she said “possible reprisals affecting Turkey’s cooperation with the US military were ‘hypothetical’ and would not derail the resolution.”
That’s when she said this is about our values. What values?
I am at my wits’ end with these people, what they have tried to do to destroy the morale of the troops, to destroy the mission itself. They run around saying, “We support the troops. We don’t support the mission.“
The troops have one concern, and that’s the mission.
If you don’t support the mission, you don’t support them and they have been trying, Pelosi and the democrats, to undermine the troops since we went into Iraq.
It just is beyond the pale that they said, “Well, no, this is going to help the troops, saying that we don’t support genocide in Turkey a hundred years ago. This will support the troops. We have to do right by these things: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, torture, all of those issues about who we are as a country.”
This makes my blood boil. This is downright sick.
This is just offensive as it can be, especially coming from these people who have done everything they can to undermine our mission.
Why do you think we have a rotten image in the world, if we do?
My friends, I don’t agree that our image is rotten, but they certainly want it to be, and they want it to be blamed on Bush. But who the hell, in public for four years, has been running around ripping the hell out of this country? Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, you name it, John Murtha, it doesn’t matter. Jay Rockefeller. Take your pick. Ted Kennedy. We’ve had Bill Clinton; we’ve had Al Gore; we’ve had Jimmy Carter, all Democrats traveling the world ripping this country to shreds; saying that it’s immoral; saying that our president is an idiot and agreeing with socialists all over the world that George Bush is an idiot, a clown, or whatever.
It’s just unseemly.
There are Americans who are fed up with hearing their country run down day in and day out for the last four years, our troops run down, criticized, impugned, day in and day out, for the last four years. To have what the Democrats say repeated on the nightly newscasts, on the cable networks, all over the newspapers and so forth, it is unseemly. Now, to offer this resolution, the third of its kind, two previously have already passed, to anger Turkey, the primary supply line for troops, and then to say, “No, this is about our morality. This is about who we are as a country.”
Yeah, where were you during the Rwandan genocide? What are you doing besides flapping your gums over what’s going on in Darfur?
The enemies of this country seem to be the allies of the United States Democrats. It’s just stunning. It’s classless, it’s unseemly, and to me, folks, it is reprehensible.
This answer that she gives here, “Well, the president hasn’t called me.” You shouldn’t need a phone call from the president to understand what you’re doing. She doesn’t need a phone call. She knows exactly what she’s doing. They all do on the Democrat side of this, know exactly what they’re doing. Some of the things are harmful to our troops. Does she really believe that the rumors, the lies, the smears of US soldiers at Guantanamo, at Club Gitmo, are actually hurting our troops in Iraq?
What’s hurting our troops in Iraq is Democrats and their judges. A soldier from Queens kidnapped in a surprise attack by Al-Qaeda in the triangle of death. We are not allowed to get wiretaps on the phones in the communications, the kidnappers are using for ten hours, because the lawyers have to approve the request for a warrant, in the middle of a war! Not in the middle of street crime; in the middle of a war!
They are trying to hand victory to the enemy. They are failing, because Al-Qaeda is on the run. There are even more stories today about how it’s getting really, really tough to deny here that things are improving in Iraq.
It’s an editorial in the Washington Post, of all places, from yesterday. “The evidence of a drop in violence in Iraq is becoming hard to dispute. But meanwhile, some seemingly important facts about the main subject of discussion last month — whether there has been a decrease in violence in Iraq — have gotten relatively little attention.”
I wonder why?
Two journalists last week, (paraphrasing) “We can’t report good news, why, one month doesn’t make a trend. Besides, how do we verify these numbers? We can’t be sure these numbers are accurate.” Yet the death toll goes up, “Oh, the numbers have no question about them, they’re totally accurate, and that of course is news.”
It’s maddening.
“A congressional study and several news stories in September questioned reports by the U.S. military that casualties were down. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), challenging the testimony of Gen. David H. Petraeus, asserted that “civilian deaths have risen” during this year’s surge of American forces. A month later, there isn’t much room for such debate, at least about the latest figures,” and they go on cite how they have plummeted. “Nevertheless, it’s looking more and more as though those in and outside of Congress who last month were assailing Gen. Petraeus’s credibility and insisting that there was no letup in Iraq’s bloodshed were — to put it simply — wrong.”
Washington Post
The last thing they can afford is the perception by the American people that we are winning and that vector is at hand. Politically that cooks their goose; politically that finishes them, because they’ve already got us losing. They’re fundraising on it; they’re running for office on it. The last thing they want is victory. And Mrs. Pelosi runs around and says this crap to Stephanopoulos.
She ought to be ashamed.
The timing of this has nothing to do with anything other than sabotaging what is now turning into positive news out of Iraq because they can’t afford for that to happen. They’re too politically invested in defeat.
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