QUOTES OF THE DAY
Northern exposure
Waiting.
-- a Turkish soldier quoted by the Wall Street Journal's Yochi J. Dreazen.
The soldier said this to explain what he was doing stationed in a Turkish military base 15 miles inside Iraq. Trouble is brewing between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds over Kurdish autonomy and control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. For an excellent summary of the increasing tensions surrounding this issue, read Sandra Mackey's recent New York Times op-ed piece.
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And the point is..?
I've been left on the shelf.
-- caption appended to a life-style Condoleezza Rice doll carried through the streets of Tehran as part of a "demonstration" protesting U.S. threats against Iran. According to the Tehran Times, the comment refered to Ms. Rice's "status as an unmarried woman."
The march also including a white donkey with the stars and stripes painted on its side and an effigy of Bush with a placard reading "Mentally Handicapped." Now we know where the folks at Moveon.org get their ideas.