As US prepares for incursions into Iran over Iraq, US tells Turkey to calm down over incursions into Turkey from Iraq

Could this be a bigger mess?

Yesterday, on Fox News, chief warmonger Bill Kristol indicated the U.S. was preparing incursions into Iran:

Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, appearing on Fox News Sunday, contended that "it looks like the Iranian government is going for the full hard line on their nuclear program. And I think we are going to have to be serious about dealing with both their intervention in Iraq -- which is now the only real threat, I think, incidentally, to relative success in Iraq -- and their nuclear program." Asked if he is predicting war, Kristol replied, "I think there could be a use of force. ... There has to be the credible threat of force both on the nuclear issue. ... I think the short- term question is does [Gen. David] Petraeus think he needs a little help across the border to secure our successes in Iraq. And if so, I think the president will give it to him. We can't let them just build IEDs and train Iraqis with impunity across the border."

At the same time, the U.S. is trying to prevent Turkey from responding to an attack within Turkey launched from Iraq:

Turkey has deployed as many as 100,000 troops, backed by tanks, F-16 fighter jets and attack helicopters along its border with Iraq in anticipation of a possible incursion.

Asked about any pending attack, Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said on Sunday: "Not urgently. They are planning a cross-border (incursion)...We'd like to do these things with the Americans."

The United States and Iraq have called on Turkey to refrain from a military push into the largely autonomous Kurdish region, one of the few relatively stable parts of the Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

And we wonder why the U.S. has no credibility.