An Undiplomatic Conflict of Interest

By Kevin McKiernan | Wednesday, November 1, 2006 | The Boston Globe

Kevin McKiernan is an Iraq war correspondent for ABC News and author of “The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland.” Here he exposes the story of retired Air Force General Joseph Ralston, sent by the Bush administration to represent US interests as a Special Envoy to Turkey, which is locked in a prolonged armed struggle with the PKK, the Kurdish separatist militia. This reeks of another Bush-Cheney smarmy deal: Ralston is on the board of Lockheed Martin, the company that makes the jets the Turkish government buys to bomb the Kurds…UGH!…BS

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/01/an_undiplomatic_conflict_of_interest/

 

 

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