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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (19962)	3/12/2003 6:34:52 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

What's this I hear? The new Prime Minister of Turkey said that not only will the US not be able to station ground troops in Turkey, but he won't even let them use Turkish air bases to assault Iraq: Waiting for War—In White House Blame game could start soon By Howard Fineman, MSNBC, March 12, 2003 <<...In fact, the U.S. has been humiliated, diplomatically and strategically. And just whose fault is that? The latest slap came the other day from Turkey’s soon-to-be-installed prime minister. Some 60,000 American soldiers are bobbing around on ships in the Eastern Mediterranean, denied permission to enter Turkey on their way to a northern front. Bush called the other day to see if there was a chance that the Turkish parliament would change its collective mind. Not only did Recap Tayyip Erdogan say “no,” he went further. He said that the U.S. couldn’t even use air bases for launching sorties into Iraq. That was a huge step backward: The U.S. had long assumed the right to use those airbases; indeed, we’ve been using them for years. Did Powell or Rice warn the president that he’d be rebuffed—at least—by Erdogan?...>> msnbc.com