US to debate Turkey genocide bill

[Tacitus]

Don't be so optimistic.

Tequila,
You're probably right. 20% is probably way too high.

You might as well have posted a link to Miss Teenage South Carolina, who when asked why 1/5 of Americans could not locate the U.S. on a world map gave her legendary answer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

You know, some people out there do not have maps. Er, the Iraq...


I gave that figure off the cuff, mainly because there is bound to be some people who have looked at a map of the Middle East, which usually accompanies a Bible, tracing the journeys of the Apostle Paul. So they at least have maps!

Mark Twain once wrote that war is God's way of teaching America geography. Apparently, even war doesn't even work anymore.

[goesh]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21553151/

"Boosted profile for ‘emboldened’ Kurdish rebels
Kurdistan Workers’ Party in spotlight after years of drifting, factionalism
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Now the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has commandeered debate over Turkey’s Kurdish ethnic minority with attacks that goaded the government into threatening a cross-border offensive against separatist hideouts in Iraq.
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The PKK, estimated to have 5,000 fighters, could benefit politically from an Iraq campaign by claiming to be the champion of all Kurds in the face of an invader with a history of human rights abuses. "

an invader with a history of human rights abuses (ouch)