Turkey Wants To Play "Invade Iraq" Too

U.S. Tries to Prevent Turkey From Attacking Northern Iraq

The Guardian newspaper is reporting the Bush administration is scrambling to prevent Turkey from attacking Kurdish-controlled areas in northern Iraq. U.S. officials fear such an attack would open up a third front in the battle to save Iraq from disintegration. Turkish sources said special forces operations have already begun in northern Iraq to target fighters connected to the PKK or the Kurdish Workers' Party. This would not be the first time Turkey has invaded Northern Iraq. Ten years ago Turkey sent 40,000 troops into Iraq but there was been no large-scale Turkish intervention since the US invasion four years ago. The U.S. has vowed to crackdown on the PKK but Turkey accuses the US of playing a double game in northern Iraq. Officials say the CIA is covertly funding and arming the PKK's sister organization, the Iran-based Kurdistan Free Life party, to destabilize the Iranian government.

Source: Democracy Now, March 23, 2007

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Remind me again how, under international law, not to mention plain ol' everyday concepts of morality and decency, the U.S. can attack and occupy another country to steal oil, but it's wrong when other countries want to play that game?

TLC