Iraq poses big potential threat to regional security: Turkish FM

[stickdog]

Almost 100 Iraqis are killed every day!

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-08/03/content_1695255.htm

ANKARA, Aug. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Turkish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said Monday that Iraq is a big potential threat in the region, Anatolia News Agency reported.

Gul made the statement in the Governor's Office in Kayseri province after a Turkish hostage was shot dead in Iraq. "Iraq is problematic. We unfortunately lost one of our citizens today. We have been exerting intense efforts to rescue Turkish hostages," he said.

"Nobody can predict what is going to happen in Iraq. As a neighboring country, Turkey has so far attributed great importance to rapid settlement of stability and peace in Iraq."

"However, as you see today, there is a serious security problem there. Almost 100 Iraqis die each day," he added.

[Gman]

1. But there's running water again, they painted some schools

and they even have electricity sometimes. Damn liberal media's focusing on rumors of bad things in Iraq.

[struggle4progress]

5. Oh?

Iraq: Tuned to the sound of freedom
04 August 2004
... Not surprisingly, given the continuing failure to reconstruct Iraq's utility infrastructure, electricity leads the list of complaints, with with water and sewage second and health services third ...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=547682

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Running water in some places sometimes

SLUDGE SLUDGE SLUDGE SLUDGE

oh, it just slipped out.

[Disturbed]

2. Serious problem

Could that have anything to do with the US/UK Occupation, non-Iraqis taking jobs from Iraqis and US Multi-Corps taking over the Iraq economy. Oh, yeah forgot.... the oil.

[Emillereid]

3. 36,500 unnecessary deaths a year in Iraq -- Way to go Bush Boy!

"However, as you see today, there is a serious security problem there. Almost 100 Iraqis die each day," he added.

I doubt seriously this estimate includes the children who unnecessarily still die from preventable water born diseases caused by improper sewage treatment and lack of electricity; the incredible increases in cancer, etc. etc.

We, the American empire, are going to be paying for this mess-up for a long, long time!

[aneerkoinos]

4. Karma

Europe's karmic trip with colonialism and fucking the rest of the people very bad way ended with the two most horrible wars the world has ever seen.

No bitching about Karma. So don't bitch about what Karma holds to US, accept it and learn from your mistakes and misconseptions, dear U.S.A...

[leesa]

6. Trying to con his public again. The Turkish people are far more saavy

than Americans and they will see right through this BS.