BUSH>>>TURKEY IS GREAT example of democracy...WTF???

[greenbriar]

this guy needs a lobotomy




WASHINGTON - President Bush held up Turkey's democracy as an important example for other Mideast nations Wednesday during an Oval Office meeting with the country's prime minister in which both leaders declared a strong relationship after differences over Iraq.



"We're happy that we were able to confirm that our strategic relationship will move and take place in the future as it has been done in the past," said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050608/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_turkey_2

[cthrumatrix]

1. maybe he was talking about "Thanksgiving"..... makes no sense

[greenbriar]

2. he is a fucking

nut job

[FearofFutility]

13. LOL!

That's what I thought when I read it! I had visions of him with the plastic turkey in Iraq. The sad thing is, it sounded like something he would say.

[IChing]

3. He is absolutely right this time

A turkey can be carved up in small pieces, like this democracy.
to be served to the Bushenfurher crime family

Oh, nevermind , he meant the country of turkey

edited for clarity

[Kipling]

4. Makes perfect sense...

To Shrubbie, Democracy = On My Side.

[jobycom]

5. In the same way he declared the coup in Pakistan as a promising sign

for democracy...

[SmokingJacket]

6. One possible reason for making kissy-face...

OIL.

http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2005/May/25-999285.html?chanlid=eur

[Coexist]

7. Do we love the Kurds or hate them?

Arm them, act against them, use them to make a political point against Saddam, take care of the Kurdish "problem" for our new friend Turkey.
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"White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the two leaders also talked about how to address Turkish Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers Party, holed up in northern Iraq. But Erdogan didn't seem satisfied with Bush's position.

Turkish officials have long blamed the United States for inaction against the rebels, whom Turkey blames for more than 30,000 deaths in Turkey."

Blame the U.S. for inaction against the Kurds???! Now we want to kill off the Kurds instead of arming them? WTF?

Deja Vu all over again.

[formerrepuke]

8. He's not completely wrong: Turkey is indeed an example of

pseudo-democratic government in a region where there aren't any democracies.. but probably not the example that other nations in the region will want to follow (too aggressively pro-western).

[wellst0nev0ter]

9. Turkey = His Kinda "Democracy"

If you are aware of Turkey's history, the military cabal essentially has veto power over the entire elected government and can declare a coup whenever they do not agree with an electoral outcome. That has happened several times whenever a non-secular party wins power in the National Assembly.

I suppose Shrub would like to abandon the government if and when Democrats win the midterm elections next year.

[Deja Q]

11. Good call!

Thanks for the edification.

[Deja Q]

10. Lobotomy for what? But Turkey is a republic parlimentary democracy:

http://www.classbrain.com/art_cr/publish/turkey_government.shtml

Maybe * wants Mur'ka to become parlimentary; so he can be in for life...

[LynnTheDem]

12. Killing & repressing Kurds is only a bad thing when Saddam does it.

Human Rights Watch report on Turkey: a profile of a police state

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/feb1999/oca2-f24.shtml

http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/turkey/index.do