George Bush is A-OK with Turkey invading Iraq: 'The smell of pre-emption'
By John Amato Thursday Feb 28, 2008 12:01pm
Bush's press conferences are getting more surreal by the minute. And I think the press is getting way out there too. He's perfectly fine with Turkey invading Iraq just as long as they don't overstay their welcome. You know, snap a few photos, have a nice lunch. What the heck, the region is unstable anyway. It's not like Turkey could make it much worse. He just loves the smell of pre-emption in the morning. Really, this is not from SNL.
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If Saudi Arabia embarks on a little operation of their own to protect the Sunnis, that'll be just wonderful for Bush, don't you think? Maybe they will be the ones greeted as liberators.
Q Mr. President, Turkey's ground offensive in northern Iraq is now a week old with no end in sight. How quickly would you like to see Turkey end its offenses, its incursion? And do you have any concerns about the possibility of protracted presence in northern Iraq causing further destabilization in the region?
THE PRESIDENT: A couple of points on that. One, the Turks, the Americans, and the Iraqis, including the Iraqi Kurds, share a common enemy in the PKK. And secondly, it's in nobody's interests that there be safe haven for people who are -- have the willingness to kill innocent people.
A second point I want to make to you, Matt, is that there is a special forces presence in northern Iraq -- in Kurdistan -- now, apart from what you're referring to. So there is a presence. And there has been a presence for a while.
Thirdly, I strongly agree with the sentiments of Secretary Gates, who said that the incursion must be limited, and must be temporary in nature. In other words, it shouldn't be long-lasting. But the Turks need to move quickly, achieve their objective, and get out.
Q But how quickly, sir, do they need to move out?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, as quickly as possible.
Q Days or weeks?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, as possible.
This is just batshit crazy.
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boosh just doesn't want to jam his hands up a Turkey rectum with cornbread stuffing.
That's the job of the illegals working in his kitchen.
i think it's time to impeach before his sociopathy goes the way of Hitler's
THE PRESIDENT: You know, as quickly as possible.
Q Days or weeks?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, as possible
Didn't you hear him man?!?! He said as possible. That's all he was told. There's no followup allowed. As possible means...as possible...like...it could be two years...we're not saying two years...but could be...but it could be two months...two weeks...heck...they might be leavin' already.
Now...did I say that above...or does it sound like Bush/Rove.
I want Bush out of there. How quickly? As possible.
The neocon plan is to ignite the Middle East.
The Iran initiative got sidetracked...but hell...Turkey and Iraq works too.
Maybe we can get the Greeks involved...and the Indians...maybe some nukes will fall...wouldn't that make the evangelicals happy! Rap...rap...rap...they call it the Rapture!
"And secondly, it’s in nobody’s interests that there be safe haven for people who are — have the willingness to kill innocent people."
Then why is Blackwater still allowed to be in the U.S.?
To be fair, the Turkish incursion into Iraq is not the equivalent of the US invasion of Iraq. In the case of Turkey, there is an active conflict going on with a group that is organizing attacks on Turkish soil from within Iraq. A better analogy would be the US invasion of Afghanistan. Security in Turkey is among the tightest in all of Europe due to the threat of terrorism. Unlike the US, Turkey continues to incur terrorist attacks on a regular basis.
Bush is ready for the rubber room!!!!
What just happened to the previous story from Dan Abrams about the Seigleman case??? Poof it's gone. I was watching the video, clicked on the comments and poof??? Just wondering.
It is so scary that an imbecile has all this power. I wish the nation could just buy out the rest of this sick wicked fuck's contract.
Ya George. It's illegal in almost every nation. There are even treaties signed against unprovoked attacks on sovereign nations. Perhaps you've heard of them? Naw, didn't think so. Terrorist.
Isn't the PKK interested in a homeland for Kurds? And aren't they probably funded at least in part by 41's post Gulf War anti-Saddam covert actions?
But to use such mild language against an *invasion* is... I don't even know, I'm sick of this entire circle jerk.
United States President George W. Bush has gone insane.
There is a provision in the US law for how to deal with the nation's Commander In Chief when he has gone insane.
Mr. Bush has obviously gone insane.
America has a safe haven for people who want to kill innocent people.
It is called The White House.
Concorde @ 7:
They aren't terrorists. They are people Turkey has treated like shit for decades seeking revenge. These people are no more terrorist, than the people getting killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. May I suggest reading?
Watching Bush is like a bad dream that never ends. I cant believe people in my family voted for this walking disaster. After 2004, I suffered a depression after Kerry lost, but I tried to tell myself it won't be that bad. But I was definetly wrong. At least I will go to my grave knowing I never voted for this man. I wonder what the people who voted for him will say to their great grandchildren?
Geez, I just can't stand that look he gets on his face when he thinks he's just being so damn "cute". We've got a 60 year old frat boy who truly believes everybody just loves him (no matter what the polls say.) Aaaaaarrrrrggghhhhh! Can't we just make him GO AWAY?
He's a psychopath. Plain and simple.
So if Cuba were to send incursion into Florida to find and kill Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, a man convicted of blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976 that would be OK as long as they didn't stay to long?
Of course he doesn't care if the turks go in there and fuck shit up. If they make a big enough of a mess, the eye of Sauron will be upon the turks, and the USA can skulk off without anyone noticing. Then Iraq would be Turkey's problem. HA ha.
Has anyone else noticed how these press conferences are ever more obviously scripted? Here, Matt, you ask this question about the Turks, buddy. We're sure you can handle it...
We should just divide Iraq up between the Saudis, Iranians, Syrians and Turks.
Just walk away.
Bye Bye...
See ya!
Have a nice life.
Yeh the last thing we want is a lingering occupation which stirs up a whole lot of hatred splits the country in three and generally causes chaos ...... oh :(
Tweakerbell @ 20:
I guess it will be alright if Turkey claims Halliburton's oil facilities.
nirak @ 8:
And chainey for the rubber pants.
That motherfucker is drunk. C'mon. It's obvious.
Tweakerbell @ 20:
Bush is an evil genius! I sure nobody will notice if one day were there fighting and getting killed and the next we are gone. BRILLIANT!
C Cooper @ 26:
At least he isn't snorting crank anymore.
Liberal AND Proud @ 18:
No, this man is a psycho:
"Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival"
The Making of the Cheney Regional Defense Strategy, 1991-1992
Declassified Studies from Cheney Pentagon Show Push for U.S. Military Predominance and a Strategy to "Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival"
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb245/index.htm
Man, I love that "no end in sight" jab. I wonder if it was intentional or if a mainstream journalist accidently insinuated that Iraq is a complete disaster...
Can boosh even spell A-ok?
Chuck @ 28:
Yeah, he has the crank working for him.
Dig that look on Georgie's face at the end right after the guy says "I'd like to ask you about Russia". Wtf kind of a look is that?
Interesting, over at Wonkette, they are reporting that when Gooofy and Rice were in Israel last week on their join field trip, when asked a question he proceeded to lecture the Israeli's on their domestic policy--a no, no in diplomatic visits. The foreign press maintains that Goofy was quite drunk on the trip.
No wonder he is making less sense than before and why he looks like he was aimed at and hit.
I hate to wish my life away but January 20, 2009 won't come fast enough to suit me.
Me thinks he's laying the groundwork for an insanity plea at the war crimes trial. Hey it worked for Reagan..... The facts tell me I killed 1 million Iraqis but my heart tells me otherwise.....
I thought Northern Iraq was the other Iraq where it was safe for us to go to on vacation. What happened? Think I can get the money for my tickets back?
It was not only predictable (in 2002-3), but obvious to anyone with an ounce of knowledge about Turkey and the Kurds, that Turkey would eventually invade the new country of "Kurdistan". bush is Humpty-Dumpty on steroids.
Chimpy McNutty.
#30, I think it was a slip of the tongue (no end in sight line). No one in the MSM would dare make their king look bad. I'm surprised I haven't heard a member of the MSM refer to Bush as "his majesty".
I love this part:
"I strongly agree with the sentiments of Secretary Gates, who said that the incursion must be limited, and must be temporary in nature. In other words, it shouldn’t be long-lasting."
The ol'. "in other words" thing again. Boy , when he said the incursion must be limited, and must be temporary in nature- wow, he just completley LOST me. Thank goodness he followed it up with something I could understand.
Iraqi Kurds are enemies of the PKK? What an ass.
I'm not particularly fond of this criticism of Bush regarding this topic. While it's true that the US invasion of Iraq created massive regional instability, the Turks are well within their rights to put a stop to the PKK just like the Brits were forced to combat the horrors of the IRA. It may be true that the Kurds need a homeland and that the Turks treat them like second-class citizens, but Turkey is a sovereign nation under attack and has a right under international law to defend its own stability.
The other point is that Turkey is one of the few secular states in the world with a predominately Muslim population. The last thing America's foreign policy future needs is for Turkey to become resentful at us when Turkey is already trying with great effort to conform significantly enough to Western ideals and practices to gain entry into the EU.
The US should try to find a peaceful solution to the Turk/PKK problem if it can help accomplish that, but criticizing the Turks or Bush's green light seems undue.
ConcernedCanuck @ 15:
Nice to see someone else is keeping up with the situation. The Turks are determined to prevent the Kurds from having a homeland. Remember that these are the same people who committed the first genocide in modern history with the murder of one and one half million Armenians. They invaded Cyprus decades ago - and the island is still divided. They have ruthlessly suppressed the Kurds from day one, banning the Kurdish language etc.
IMO, they don't intend to leave at all. They will annex a "buffer zone" and expand it at intervals in response to "provocations." Make no mistake, the Turks want the same thing Bush does, oil. They also will do anything necessary to prevent a Kurdish homeland. The Kurds are about to get sold out again - because Bush ain't gonna lift a finger to stop a deeper Turkish incursion.
TomR @ 42:
Are you fucked in the head?
Bush: "I want Turkey out by Thanksgiving," (heh, heh).
fwffavvg @ 44:
Not that I'm aware of. Thank you for your concern.
I’m not particularly fond of this criticism of Bush regarding this topic. While it’s true that the US invasion of Iraq created massive regional instability, the Turks are well within their rights to put a stop to the PKK just like the Brits were forced to combat the horrors of the IRA. It may be true that the Kurds need a homeland and that the Turks treat them like second-class citizens, but Turkey is a sovereign nation under attack and has a right under international law to defend its own stability.
Wrong on so many levels, Tom. Turkey is taking advantage of the situation we've created by invading Iraq, which is a soverign nation (which has already been invaded and occupied). So basically, you're saying that the Turks have the right to hunt-down and kill Kurds wherever they live. Swell.
Why doesn't Busholini take his own advice and get OUR troops out of there as quickly as possible. After all, the SPLURGE was a great success!!!!! Pffffft.
According to the puffingtonpost, the Turkish troops are out of "our country", aka Iraq.
who you tryin to get crazy with ese, don't you know i'm loco?
So what else is new?
ConcernedCanuck @ 15:
I read plenty, thank you, and I visit Turkey at least once every three months. I'm not judging their motives, but the fact is that they do use terrorist tactics (targeting civilians with violent acts). They may indeed have legitimate cause for their grievances against the Turkish government. That doesn't change the facts on the ground, and it doesn't make them equivalent to the people getting killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
What a putz!
Bush can't object and neither can the Dem's or else a similar move into Pakistan after Al Qaeda would look inconsistent.
sparafucilli @ 54:
Ding Ding Ding , we have a winner!!!!
Chiiiimptastic!
Dhalgren @ 47:
Have you ever been to Turkey? Having to go through multiple metal detectors to go to a restaurant? The threat of terrorism is a daily, real situation to the average person in Turkey, similar to that of the threat in Israel. Again, the Kurds may (and I believe do) have a legitimate right to self government. But are you suggesting that the US did not have the right to invade Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks?
You couldn't ask for a better model of a complete moronic idiot.
His bad grammar, his malapropism's combined with his facial ticks are something that will be studied for years to come by the psychiatric community.
Thank you, Concorde. Being even-handed can be a lonely position at times...
This is just batshit crazy.
And you expected rationality from this bozo?
P.D. @ 16:
They will lie to themselves and everyone else.
Concorde @ 57:
Afghanistan was willing to hand over the leaders of Al Qaeda to a 3rd country for trial including Osama bin Laden. Again the Bush administration didn't want a trial where evidence could be brought they wanted war to in rich their friends. 9/11 should have been handled like a crime not an attack from a sovereign country.
TomR @ 42:
Yeah, just as we attacked Iraq to get rid of OBL, the Turks are going after their version of the bogey man.
They want the oil, just as we do. We'll soon have to fight Turkey or let them have Dick Cheney's oilfields.
The PKK are using suicide bombing and other terrorist tactics against Turkish citizens. Saying that the PKK is an imaginary bogeyman is simply untrue.
As for oil, Turkey has, as far as I know, no aspirations to start taking parts of Iraq under its control but to instead prevent PKK incursions into Turkey. If that's true, then the oil argument simply doesn't hold up. Also, is oil plentiful in that part of Iraq? I didn't think it was, actually.
what is more distrubing than having a delusional marginally educated, drunkard
as a president, is having a congress unwilling to enforce the constitution of the
USA and IMPEACH this bastard and the vp for even one of the blatant crimes
they have and are continuing to commit on the American citizens and the
country. this is just how the caesars destroyed rome, incompetent govt.
Concorde @ 57:
Many people believe we had the right to attack anyone we want after 9/11.
In Bush's world, when you're attacked by terrorists that have no national allegiances, you're supposed to start bombing sovereign nations. If you can't kill the terrorists, kill civilians.
On 9/11, terrorists using forged passports showing that they were from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, hijacked airplanes and killed thousands of Americans.
So by Republican logic, of course we had the right to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. you can't very well go after the owners of the Republican Party in their palaces in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Kuwait can you?
RayC @ 62:
The Taliban wouldn't play ball with Kenneth Lay. They wanted to much money for the pipeline right of way.
Now the pipeline isn't costing the oil corporations any money in leases or royalties.
Like father like son. Bush 41 screwed the Kurds twice, too.
Bush is batshit crazy!!!!
I'm not kidding. He was either drunk or he is crazy or both. Watch this goofy sob. He can't even make a complete sentence come out of his mouth without screwing it up. BATSHIT CRAZY!
Concorde @ 52:
They are freedom fighters in the same mould as Afghans or Iraqis.
He is definitely losing his shit.
He also looks like he's W-A-Y hungover.
Little boots has surpassed his daddy at last..... he now looks older than poppy.
ConcernedCanuck @ 15:
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uhm, actually,
a better analogy would be:
there is a prevalent, oppressed minority within Turkey's borders (Kurds), just as there was in Yugoslavia (Albanians).
The US, being the liberators and the freedom-bringers that we are, fund and support the terrorists, umh freedom-fighters, in Turkey (PKK), just as we funded and supported the terrorists, uhm freedom fighters, in Yugoslavia (KLA).
The US, in order to help the persecuted, uses NATO to bomb Ankara, just as Clinton used NATO to bomb Belgrade (remember that?)
The US, recognizes the independent country of Kurdistan which is partly in Turkey, just as the US recognized Kosovo, which is in Former Yugoslavia, just LAST WEEK!!!
In opposite world, such painful analogies are best ignored...
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"Invasion"?
More like "Incursion".
But I'm ok with those innocent people lying about killing innocent Armenians.
According to the Bush foreign policy cabal we will allow Turkey, a nation that has been engaged in ethnic cleansing of Kurd culture within Turkey, to take military action against Kurds within the northern borders of Iraq? It is entirely possible that some of the PKK/Kurds that are being killed by Turks were among the fighters that we supported against Saddam after the 1st Persian Gulf War?...........one step forward........two steps back.
At the same time that we are allowing the Turkish Army free reign in northern Iraq, we are recognizing Kosovos' split from Yugoslavia..........WTF?
Are there any adults left in the Department of State? Impeach! Impeach Now!
So, is Bush saying Turkey should have a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq? Talk about taking your own advice, sheesh.
The Kurds are sold out by the US. Again. First time to Saddam, second time to the Turks. Both times, their people suffer mass murder while the US willingly turns a blind eye. Small wonder the US refused to call the 1910 genocide a genocide.
In a way, the annexation of Kurdish Iraq (which should be called Kurdistan) is a lot like what is happening to the Palestinians: a genocide and land grab is being perpetrated and the US willingly allows it to happen because the country benefits from it, both in an inhuman ally and for the benefit of US military bases near the
oil fieldsenemy.We get it George you DICKHEAD....like maybe 6 years too....if that is "as soon as possible".......you know.
And this intelligence is coming from the mouth of a world leader?
the us need to unifiy the kurds, sunni and shite, just a though on Iraq and the Taliban, they killing 2 birds with one stone</a?
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