How Dare You Turkey!!

According to CNN, Iraq's deputy prime minister Barhim Salih said the following regarding the issue of Turkey sending troops into Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels:

If Turkey were to give itself the right to interfere in Iraq militarily, what is there to stop other neighbors from doing so?

I can't help but let out a dry laugh of sarcasm. Whhhhhat? Wait, remind me what the US or (the dwindling) coalition forces are doing in Iraq?

Riiiiight, the American forces are there at the Iraqi government's request -- an American-backed Iraqi government, may I hasten to add -- whereas the Turks (other than those that are part of the coalition forces) are coming uninvited.

Don't get me wrong, I totally think that this move by the Turkish parliament is nothing but a bitchy retaliatory act against the little "genocide" issue current on the table in Congress. I don't believe for a second that it actually has to do with the need to fight Kurdish rebels, or at least to fight the Kurdish rebels right now.

So the Iraqis do have a right to protest this bitchy move. It's just that you can't make arguments that someone can so easily - and I mean sooooooo so easily -- dismiss.

C'mon, you can do better than that. You'd better.