Turkey Launches Ground Assault INSIDE Iraq

Man, this is NOT good. For the first time (confirmed), Turkey has sent troops across the Iraqi border into Iraq to go after Kurdish rebels. Now, as serious as this is, it certainly can't be surprising. The U.S. and Iraq have done nothing to protest any of the air assault on the Kurds by Turkey to this point. I've seen it play out - the Turks have become more aggressive each time, testing the international waters and every time, they have not even received a handslap. So this time they are taking an even bigger step and it is my view, that THIS time, the U.S. and Iraq have to draw the line.
Now, I have no love lost for the PKK (Kurdish rebels) but at the same time, for Turkish troops to be in Iraq is insane! We have to realize that the Turks HATE the Kurds and vice versa. Let me ask how Turks being in Iraq is any different than Iranians being in Iraq? Or Syrians being in Iraq?
Unless I have missed it, I have not seen a single attack by PKK factions inside of Turkey for over a month - yet Turkey is on the ground inside of Iraq? Like I said, this is not good.

Full story from Breitbart is here.

Turkey Launches Ground Operation in Iraq

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkish troops launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday—a move that dramatically escalates Turkey's conflict with the militants.
It is the first confirmed ground operation by the Turkish military into Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. It also raised concerns that it could trigger a wider conflict with the U.S.-backed Iraqi Kurds, despite Turkey's assurances that its only target was the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
The ground operation started after Turkish warplanes and artillery bombed suspected rebel targets on Thursday, the military said on its Web site. The incursion was backed by the Air Force, the statement said.
Turkey has conducted air raids against the PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq since December, with the help of U.S. intelligence, and it has periodically carried out so-called "hot pursuits" in which small units sometimes spend only a few hours inside Iraq.
The announcement of a cross-border, ground incursion of a type that Turkey carried out before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a major development in its conflict with the Kurdish rebels, which started in 1984 and has claimed as many as 40,000 lives.
Turkey staged about two-dozen incursions in Iraq during the rule of Saddam, who launched brutal campaigns against the Kurdish population. Some Turkish offensives involved tens of thousands of troops. Results were mixed, with rebels suffering blows to their ranks and supplies but regrouping after the bulk of the Turkish forces had left.
PKK spokesman Ahmad Danas said two Turkish troops were killed and eight wounded in clashes along the 240-mile border, but there was no comment from the Turkish military and no way to independently confirm the claim.