"In fact, if IIRC...John Murtha recently said he was in Turkey about that time...and was asked to get the Turkish government to let our troops just travel through Turkey....and he FAILED his mission."
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I had no idea. In that case, I bet MURTHA TALKED TURKEY OUT OF HELPING US. Remember how anti-war and anti-US Murtha is. I would bet he was doing the opposite of what his mission stated and is at least partly responsible for Turkey not allowing us to go through it's territory.
Someone should investigate this.
It was Murtha telling the "story"...so do we believe he was asked at all???
And, like you said, if he was asked...did he HELP or HURT.
Also..he said Nancy Pelosi was with him at the time..think about it.
Sounds to me as if Murtha and Rockefeller were over in that part of the world around the same time - probably for the same reason, too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524831/posts?page=14#14