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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (14956)3/3/2003 10:08:35 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
Told you so.... (*)

The US's diplomatic botch with Turkey was stage-managed:

latimes.com

Excerpt:

"We don't like the way we were pushed around by the Americans," said Emin Sirin, one of dozens of lawmakers from the ruling Justice and Development Party who defied its leaders and voted against U.S. deployment.

"The Americans kept giving ultimatums and deadlines, asking Turkey to jump into a barrel of fire," he said. "They seemed to think we could be bought off, but we had real security concerns about what Iraq would look like after Saddam. They never addressed those concerns."
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