“Don’t Send Our Sons to the Iraqi Hell”. That’s what they are chanting in Turkey, as polls show over two-thirds of the public oppose sending troops into the neighboring country. Thousands hit the streets to protest and police arrested some 60 Kurdish activists.
Still, that stabilizing influence of pre-emptive war should break out any day now. [Hit & Run]
The Turkish government wants to send troops Iraq in exchange for a multi-billion dollar bribe loan from the Feds. However, Turkey is a democracy, so if they go through with the deal they may well find themselves unemployed in the next election.
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