[AzDesertRat]

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I haven't been following this stuff super-closely, but it's also worth noting that there's some validity to Turkey's objections. I could be wrong, but my impression is that there really are Kurdish terrorists using N. Iraq as a base for operations in Turkey. Not that that would justify an invasion of Iraq, but it is a real provocation that might be pushing certain elements towards that course of action.

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You use terrorists, I said separatists. They have been waging this war since the fall of the Ottoman empire. Other "stans" are also involved.

This is a result of how political boundaries are drawn with little regard to how people are actually living. Without a solution, it festers and eventually blows up like Yugoslavia and lots of countries in [colonial] Africa.