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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24029)	3/31/2003 12:40:01 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Bush said the $6 Billion in cash was his final offer The final offer was USD 6 bn in grants and USD 24 bn in loans & loan guarantees. Totalling USD 30 bn. You are talking about only the grant part. The parliament, obviously under the pressure you properly noted, was unwilling to reattempt a vote... </I. They could have "reattempted" the vote after Erdogan's election, but still did not. They said something like "We cannot resubmit this bill as it is, since the Parliament has democratically rejected it once." So they resubmitted it as having only rights to fly over Turkish soil. please don't try and assert that they were merely voting based upon public pressure against the war Why not? The refusal to allow US deployment was a very bad move for Turkey, economically (no USDS 30 bn) and geopolitically (Kurds took their place as US' best buddy). If you have a theory as to why they did it, I would love to hear about it. So don't tell me those politicians weren't thinking about the money Do you have any idea on what the first Gulf War cost Turkey? Of course they asked for compensation. And that vote lost by a count of 3, which means quite a few Turkish politicians were more than willing to permit US troops to base there Which also means that many representatives in AKP, the ruling party that has a vast majority in the Parliament, voted against the bill that their own party brought to the Parliament. Think about it. After all, if the Palestinians deserve a state, why not the Kurds?? I agree with you completely, and it is a disgrace that the US negotiated with Turks on this issue, giving assurances as to Iraq staying one piece, in the first place.