No Replacement For Displacement

Told You So! Part II

The World Tribune is reporting that Turkish vehicles are moving to the Iraqi border:

ANKARA — Turkey has resumed its military buildup in northern Iraq as renewed U.S. military activities were reported at Turkish ports and bases.

Turkey sent 200 military trucks to the Iraqi border on Thursday. Turkish sources and media reports said the trucks were loaded with munitions, communications equipment and other supplies.

That isn't all:

Turkish sources also reported a resumption of U.S. military activities in the country. They said hundreds of trucks, carrying U.S. military vehicles, were unloaded at the Mediterranean port of Mersin. The trucks then headed south.

NTV television said the U.S. military has signed a contract with the Turkish State Railways Authority for the transportation of the cargo unloaded at Mersin port to southeastern Anatolia near the Iraqi border. The deal calls for the lease of 300 trains with 35 cars each to the U.S. Army.

Three hundred trains with 35 cars per train. That's 10,500 cars. Each car can carry either a sh*tload of equipment, a single tank, or two APCs or multiple trucks and lighter vehicles(Humvees), and probably each car can carry the equivalent of two+ tractor trailer loads of equipment, which means at least 70 tons. In other words, all that talk about abandoning a northern front is, to put it mildly, a bit premature, as I've said repeatedly.