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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (73641)2/13/2003 6:02:31 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
NATO's mandate is explicitly, solely, defensive.

Turkey asked, (not us) that the planning process be started to deliver defensive weapons to them because they feared an attack by Iraq. This was totally within the bounds of what must be approved under the NATO agreement. Germany and France refused to allow it to happen.

All this chatter about "well, it was to defend them after an attack was started on Iraq" is nonsense. The NATO agreement is clear, and there really is no argument on this point.
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