While for Sunnis (especially Sunni)and Shiites Iraqi invasion was a disaster, Kurds benefited tremendously from it.

This is beyond debate.

But some elements in Kurdistan should not attempt to follow Kosovo example by bating a bigger neighbor to the north. NATO is not coming to bail them out.

With their luck Chechnia will be their more likely model.

Despite obvious sympathies for their Turkish brothers they need to restrain and evict PKK.

"On Monday, the Turkish military released video footage of what it said was the ground incursion in Iraq. Images showed a helicopter taking off, trucks with soldiers driving up a hill and troops in white camouflage apparel carrying equipment on their backs."

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The idea of Turkey taking care of the PKK issue in Iraq in a timely manner is pretty starting to look like facade.

Those aren't special forces this description from the article is referring to, as if one would do if they were going to hit and run.

Incursions are typically intended to invade, conquer, and possibly control a territory using a large amount of soldiers. Hence the articles description.

One has to wonder at this point who's minding the PKK in Turkey, now that the army has left the country.

It's as if this admin were advocating for more war, everywhere, anywhere, at the same time, so as to distract from their debacle in Iraq.

Why get mad at the Turks? They are not doing anything different then what the Americans have done -- invading Iraq that is. What's good for the goose...

This battle is just another example of President Bush spreading more freedom.

These people will be very happy to live through all the freedom they are receiving.

Maybe the Turks should recognize that they have a sizeable minority population in their country that needs recognition.

During the 1980's Turkey began a program of forced assimilation of its Kurdish population.[26] Use of the Kurdish language was outlawed and Turks began denying the existence of the Kurdish ethnic group instead calling them "mountain Turks"[citation needed]. This culminated in 1984 when the PKK began a rebellion against Turkish rule attacking Turkish military and civilian targets. The Turkish government responded with committing their own atrocities by wiping out Kurdish villages. Due to these tactics that target civilians 37,000 have died in the still ongoing conflict.

Human Rights Watch has documented many instances where the Turkish military forcibly evacuated villages, destroying houses and equipment to prevent the return of the inhabitants. An estimated 3,000 Kurdish villages in Turkey were virtually wiped from the map, representing the displacement of more than 378,000 people

It is clear that the Bush war machine intends to leave 140,000 troops in Iraq regardless of the empty promise to bring them home as a result of the so-called "return on success."

John McCain must run on and defend the ongoing bloodshed and genocide now that we know his strategy is to keep our troops in Iraq for another 100 years. He must also explain to the American people why it was such a great idea to abandon the war in Afghanistan where corruption in the Hamid Karzai puppet regime installed by Bush runs through the entire government there while their ill-gotten gains from opium sales continue to arm the resurgent Taliban who control most of the country outside of Kabul.

We also know that the Republican House Minority leader, John Boehner, stated that the "investment that we"re making today will be a small price if we"re able to stop al Qaeda here, if we"re able to stabilize the Middle East..." It's irrefutable that stabilizing the entire Middle East went down the drain once Bush landed on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in May 2003 and declared "Major hostilities have ended in Iraq" under the banner, "Mission Accomplished."

So now, the Republicans have put all their bets on continuing the bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan, guaranteeing that the death toll of American military men and women, now at 4,000 with 29,000 wounded, will increase as well as the $12 billion-per-month price tag to pay for this "small sacrifice."

Regime change in the White House is long overdue. The Bush autocrat and his Republican thralls have done irreparable damage to our country and our reputation in the civilized world. It will take generations to restore our honor and our trust in the aftermath Bush's 8-year reign of terror and war.

In the meantime, John McCain's slogan should be Party On! Republicans because the spigot remain open for the no-bid contractor/profiteers like Halliburton, Exxon, Kellogg Brown & Root, Bechtel, Blackwater and others who have taken our country down the path of Hell.

Turkey killed a bunch of Iraqis.

Most amazing of ALL was that every single one of them was found to be carrying an Al-Quaeda ID card somewhere on their person.

Once Hilary said she would stay in Iraq to protect the Kurds, the Turks realized it was best to act and the result is the 41 dead Kurds in this news item - for starters.

Words matter Hilary. And when you violated international law by intervening in Kosovo you tore down the goalposts leaving regimes like the one in Turkey wondering if they are the next Slobodan Milosevic just because they try to protect their own citizens against separatist minorities on their soil. Your foreign policy adviser, Madeleine Albright is already suspected of playing games with Turks to benefit Israel which throws even more uncertainty on the pile.

Result: Turks attack now to ensure they will not be in a compromised position in case Hilary is elected. Notice Bush has already told Turks to go ahead with the slaughter of Kurds, the "success story" in the Iraq war which our MSM was so happy to present to us as the great benefit of invading Iraq.

Vote Obama 08

Turkey has invaded Iraq. When Saddam invaded Kuwait wasn't he asked to leave?

Luckily, having sold all its excess nerve gas to Sadam Hussein, the U.S. didn't have any left over to offer Turkey.

What a mess it would be if one of its few friends in that part of the world decided to slaughter a few hundred Kurds with WMD's. Ironic, perhaps, but a mess nevertheless.

Not that the Turks aren't doing a pretty good job with conventional arms, mind you.

Yup, President Bush really sent us on a fool's errand, didn't he?

President Bush and bipartisan voters who authorized the war, ignoring all evidence and intelligence to its lack of efficacy, are guilty of a mistake in judgement. But, to accuse President Bush of intentionally causing the deaths of thousands of US and Allied civillian and military personel is non-sensical. Whether you are a registered Democrat, Independent, or Republican, it is important to base your conclusion on facts and principled thought as well as rational analysis. The PKK and the Kurds have been performing acts of terrorism with the sovereign borders of Turkey for decades, they have attacked military, civillian, and government targets in the hopes of disrupting Turkish society - they are no different than the PLO, IRA, or any other such organization. And, for the Kurdish leadership to state they are not alligned with the PKK is disingenous, it is like Sein Fein stating they are the political wing of the IRA and having nothing to do with the Provost, the military wing. Unfortunately, the battles in the mid-east have a history spanning thousands of years and will not be solved within our life times, our only logical recourse is to make certain the war remains overseas and is not brought to America again - as it was on 9-11.

GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH BEFOR HE LEAVES OFFICE HE WILL OF SENT 4,000.OO LPUS AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO THERE DEATH.
AND CONDEMENED OVER 27,000 PLUS U.S. SOLDIERS TO A FUTURE OF MINDLESS PAIN, LOSE OF BODY PARTS, ETC.
AND YOU MR. BUSH IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS HAVENT EVEN NEEDED A PANDDAD FOR EVEN A PAPER CUT, HOW YOU KNEW THEY WOULD NOT EVEN IMPEACH YOU FOR ALL THE DEATH AND GREED IS A SHOWING OG GOD ON YOUR SIDE.
WOULD YOU LOIKE TOREACH 5,000 BEFORE YOU LEAVE OFFICE IN 08 ?.