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Instead, he is screwing the american people to play his half a$$ed war games halfway around the world.

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Not only the American people. He\'s screwing the whole world!! What American voters have to keep in mind is that when you elect a president, you are choosing in a sense policeman of the world.

I am surprised because I\'ve got a Texan friend who has voted Bush just because he is Texan. I am trying to tell him that (meaning him) one vote of an ignorant voter causes havoc in a remote part of the world; you just have to know it.

When Bill Clinton came to Turkey after the major earthquake, everybody loved him and during his presidency, every Turk was a staunch supporter of America (actually Turks always have been stauch supporters of US since 1947). You will be even more surprised to know that the political party now holding office (who rejected the resolution allowing US to station troops in Turkey), is extremely pro-American. And would have been more than happy to pass the resolution, to be seen as cooperating with the US. But what caused the resolution to be rejected was extreme blatancy of the administration and the media. I am sure you have seen the cartoons depicting Turkey as a belly dancer and asking for money for the resolution. Contrary to common belief, the resolution failed for two reasons.

1)The status of Turcomans in the Northern Iraq and the Kurdish question: Turkey was concerned about Turcomans (although ethnically both Turcomans and Kurds are Turkic, Kurds have rebelled against Turkey in the form of TERRORISM killing some 130,000 civilians + soliders throughout 20 years) because they could face a genocide in the hands of Kurds. These fears were validated when Kurds\' first duty was to attack places which held title-deeds in Mosul and Kirkuk in order to destory evidence that those places belonged to Turcomans.

2)Fait-accompli by the US: It was shocking for Turkey to see US transports loaded with tanks coming to southern ports without asking for anything. Turkey was never consulted for such a deployment and you must appreciate the disappointment when US troops arrived like \"hey where are we unloading these things?\". Naturally Turkey said \"we have to decide it in the national assembly\". Meanwhile, the Turkish General Staff and Ministry of Foreign Affairs were against any war in Iraq and wanted unity of its neighbor (not because they loved Saddam so much, but because they didnt wanted a new nation founded by once terrorist militias from the ashes of Iraq). However General Staff and Foreign Affairs decided to negotiate with the US in order to get the resolution passed in time before US attack began. It was this time that US threatened Turkey with cutting IMF aids if the resolution would not pass and it is this time the newspapers depicted Turkey as \"after the money\". That was hardly the truth. Thus Turks were really pissed off and it was democratically concluded that the resolution would be rejected. \"Dissappointed\" by the normal functioning of democracy, US decided to cooperate with Kurdish militias to open the Nortern front. Kurds were more than happy of course because they have been trying to establish their resistance on legitimate grounds since their terrorist activities were stopped by Turkish special ops (together with the US special ops; aahh good old days) by capturing their legendary leader Abdullah Ocalan. Kurds jumped on the opportunity, hoping to get some autonomy after the war. This itself is very scary because US was supporting terrorists in a campaign against terrorism; like it did throughout the cold war as a leverage against states. But this time there was no reason to do such a thing, because Turkey was already supporting US and had US employled a normal and honest foreign policy Turks and Americans would be fighting shoulder to shoulder in the Northern front.

When the war started, US seemed to struggle a bit. Despite all the faults of US foreign policy, Turkey decided to open its air corridors to US aircrafts to facilitate supplies to Northern front as a gesture. \"Coincidentally\" after this action, US resumed its advance. Meanwhile Colin Powell was underlining the importance of Turkey as an \"ally\" (Turkey has never been an ally. It was rather a strategic employee of the US) and denying any distortion in Turkish-American relations.

When the war was over, Turkey was once again disappointed by the news from Northern Iraq. A kurdish state was being formed, starting with appointment of Kurdish municipals to Northern provinces (these municipals were warchieftans of Kurdish militia clans 10 years ago. Jesus!). Turkey openly declared its stance and said that it would attack any Kurdish state which would be established on the border. After this declaration Kurds denied their nationhood claims.

Only several days ago, Turks were further irritated and this time made extremely furious by the arrest of 11 Turkish officers by US soldiers in Nortern Iraq. US troopers (together with Kurdish guerillas) had ASSAULTED a Turkish communications center and captured Turkish high ranking officers by using force and even covering their heads with sacks. This was NEVER broadcasted in American televisions. I watched CNN all day to hear what they will say about this, but NO sound. Only Bush\'s Africa visit. This of course lead to a crisis and Turkish General Staff even worked on recapture operations. But the idiot pro-American administration decided not to do anything about it. No American was willing to say something about it. US troopers released Turkish officers after 54 hours. Funnily, DC was unaware of the operation and was curious too. A joint inspection committee was formed to inspect the situation in Northern Iraq. It was found that US troops had assaulted the com center because of an intentionally wrong intel given by the Kurds. Kurds denied the fact, but later a camcorder shot by a Kurd during the operation was retrieved. We are all waiting in awe to hear what the US has to say about it.

I am sure that you could never have guessed these when you were voting. Well, but these do happen and American media seems to misinform US citizens on the government\'s policies. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]