Bush, Turkish PM discuss Kurdish rebels

Bush, Turkish PM discuss Kurdish rebels
By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer
52 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush hoped a face-to-face meeting Monday would persuade Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold back tens of thousands of Turkish troops massed on Iraq's border.

But Erdogan came to Washington expecting the United States to take action against Kurdish rebels staging cross-border attacks from Iraq into Turkey. So far, the U.S. has been unable to deliver.

During a trip to Turkey last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised to redouble efforts against the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. But her Turkish counterpart, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, made clear his government was not satisfied.

"We are at the point where words have been exhausted and where there is need for action," Babacan said Friday.

Turkish leaders have signaled that a decision on what to do about the rebels may hinge on what Erdogan can bring back from Washington to a Turkish public that favors military action in Iraq.

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Republican presidents have sold them down the river over and over again.

He's freaking INSANE & UNSTABLE. He needs to be heavily sedated..