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Clinton in Turkey speaks of 'friend for all times' (Roundup)
Mar 7, 2009, 12:59 GMT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and her Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan address a press conference after their bilateral meeting at Turkish Foreign Ministary in Ankara, Turkey on 07 March 2009. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders aimed at improving ties between the two NATO allies that were hurt following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. EPA/TOLGA BOZOGLU
Ankara - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Ankara on Saturday declared Turkey a 'friend for all times' and thanked her hosts for Turkey's military contribution to NATO's mission in Afghanistan, for economic investment in Iraq and for Ankara's role in the now stalled Israel-Syria peace process.
Speaking after wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan that covered a number issues, including the Middle East, Afghanistan, NATO and the fight against terrorism, Clinton announced that President Barack Obama would visit Turkey next month.
'I will tell President Obama that he will find a warm welcome,' Clinton said at a joint press conference with Babacan.
Clinton in particular praised Turkey for its role in mediating peace talks between Israel and Syria, saying that the talks were a part of the overall Mideast peace process.
'The importance of this tract of the peace process cannot be overstated,' Clinton said.
Turkey has played host to four rounds of indirect peace talks between Damascus and Tel Aviv but plans for a fifth round were put on hold when Israel launched military operations in the Gaza Strip at the end of 2008.
Babacan said that once the conditions were right and both sides were ready to again start the talks, Turkey would be ready once again to play a mediating role.
Clinton also said that two US representatives are currently holding talks in Damascus.
Asked what role Turkey might play as the US starts to pull its troops out of neighbouring Iraq, Clinton said it was too early in the planning stages to make any firm announcements.
In a joint statement issued later, Clinton and Babacan expressed commitment to the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and pledged to strengthen cooperation against the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and al-Qaeda.
The United States already shares intelligence with Turkey concerning PKK separatist rebels based in mountainous northern Iraq from where they launch raids on Turkey.
Clinton's visit to Turkey and the announcement of Obama's visit is a part of the new US administration's attempt to improving ties between the two NATO allies that were hurt following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Turkish public opinion was overwhelmingly against the war and surveys showed a dramatic fall in the general public's view of the United States.
Clinton earlier on Saturday visited the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic and was scheduled to meet Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Saturday afternoon before leaving.
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The Empire has no friends - just the interests.
has a severe infestation of spider mites.
'lance's brain has a severe infestation of spider mites.'
I like your analog. You are right: Defaming a person and constantly heckling them is another strategy that the U.S. employs to get its way. The U.S. prefers buying friends first but if that does not work then heckling is definitely a little down on the list of techniques.
For example: Heckling and defaming was definitely used against Iraq right before the U.S. leveled the entire country back to the stone age. The U.S. even defamed the U.N weapons inspectors.
So, while your methods may appear childish, they are actually used by the U.S. president and the State Department as first class 'diplomatic' techniques. Pretty pathetic, eh?
Good going! Thank you for the lead in.
'I like your analog'
The word is analogy. But I wouldn't expect you to know a word as big as that. The main point being, it was not an anlogy. An analogy contains words like 'like.' What was before your eyeless stoma was a statement of fact. Now, do you still like it, you brain vacuumed, cabbage patch kid?
'Heckling and defaming'
Heckling? No, no, my dear veggie. That can only happen IF, and that is a BIG IF, there was some flax being dressed. Look up the Etymology of the word in a dictionary. Can you spell dictionary? Consider them as sign posts that you are off on yet another nonsensical, not childish, for that is a human thing, but Zygotal spewing of uttered utter trash. Go vegetate on those big words for a while, seed pod.
De-fame? Lance has not any fame, just a reputation for being a vacuous vegetable, therefore he cannot be de-famed. One more example of the knowledge and wisdom demonstrated by the local flora.
Good going. Thank you for the lead in, you rose to the bait once more. (expletive deleted), are you ever stupid.
'Pretty pathetic, eh?'
The only valid thing he has ever said.
' The word is analogy'
Still trying to win something by arguing a spelling mistake, eh? Kinda like occupying a muslim nation by saying they have WMDs. The relationship simply does not make sense.
Again, a good analog between this forum and what the U.S. state department does. If they can't find an excuse to do something they just make something up even if it is completely irrelevant based upon its fictitious nature.
Thanks for the lead in once again! I couldn't have done a better job myself!
... here, let me help you with your next step:
next, you are suppose to threaten me with violence and superior fire power. Do you have any explosives or access to some pals that like to drag fagots and other people they don't like behind their F-150 super truck?
... the analog to that and the U.S. 'diplomatic' efforts is obvious.
go take your meds.
to play with lance. He doesn't know when he's been had. ROFLMAO
'it is so much fun to play with lance. He doesn't know when he's been had'
That would be the 'Mission Accomplished' analog.
Followed by a swift entrance of Vietnam vets swooping in fighting mad arguing that they won the war.
Good analog! Wow, this forum really does mimic U.S. diplomatic policy and the 'typical U.S. citizen'.
lance really does mimic a rutabaga, his hero. Keep it up lance. This is more fun than dropping jesus bombs on them thar heathen, brain sucking, baby killing muzlimz. Howz them crash proof a-vee-yonix and bladder controll cisterns comming along? I might need them. This dezyned to crash war masheene o myne aintt gonna hold togther much longer. My lafter is shakin it to bits.
and pat himself on his foliage. 'Good analog! Gosh, golley gee, am I ever smart, or what.'
Heavy emphasis on 'or what.'
Lance, the boy who thinks that “Trickle Down” is what happens when he gets a tad too excited with his keyboard and ends up with a wet sock!
There you sit, playing with Mr computer, your only confidante, posting thirty or forty a day. Tapping and tippling away until obliged by nature to make yet another genuflection to your Porcelain God. Rectally sure of your own rectitude. Imbued with an almost messianic imperative to open our eyes to your revealed truth. Again and again and again spews forth the same unadulterated ordure! Do you not realise that more than half of the responses you provoke result from sheer frustration? We could all recite the sorry string of elementary non-sequiturs that apparently define your credo like a mantra!
How many cogent arguments, new perspectives, original thoughts have I missed out on because an intelligent human being, having read a news report on this site, then scrolled down to the Talkback section only to be faced with two solid pages of the Lance and SP4 show?
What happened? Is it personal? Was your dam (if such a person can be imagined) assaulted by a Catholic Priest, displayed wilful ignorance in refusing to accept the outcome until rather too late, attempted to rid herself of the burden but merely succeeded in inflicting permanent damage on her child, turned to Jesus in a fit of remorse, and finally, in a monumental display of confusion left you in a basket at the door of a Mosque which she had mistaken for the local Episcopalian Church?
Let me make a suggestion. Butt out lance, if only for a week. Scan the site and attempt to evaluate any change that you may discern in the sort of comments that are posted here. If, after that time you feel that you have anything to offer, then please return. Unlike SP, you seem to have been endowed with an intellect. Do try to use it!
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lanceMar 7th, 2009 - 15:04:24
'friend for all times'
Translation:
Turkey responds well to money and hence will not need to be chastised and invaded.
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