A New Invasion of Iraq

Turkey has sent up to 10000 soldiers into Iraqi Kurdistan. See Patrick Cockburn's article at The Independent.

Meanwhile, Bobby Gates has decided that the withdrawl phase of the 'surge' should be 'paused', meaning that the 'surge' all along was an escalation.

Moqtada al-Sadr, has extended his ceasefire for another 6 months. Explain this too me: the Sadrists have declared a unilateral cease-fire, we are building an alliance with the Sunni Awakening, and our allies in the puppet government are the Dawa-SIIC alliance. Not to mention, the Kurds are the only ones who are okay with us being in Iraq. So, no major faction is openly fighting us. So who the heck are we fighting over there? AQI? We need 150000 American boys to fight maybe a thousand irregulars? Or are maybe some of the Sadr-Awakeing-Dawa-SIIC-Kurd allies are both with us and against us?

We are sending Cessna 172's to Iraq to train their air force. Only, the pilot flying it to Miami to have it shipped crashed it.

Now, there is a history of funny business with Florida planes, including this recent story of CIA affiliated planes caught running drugs in Mexico. But that is a different story.