[a_Turk]

"State warmly embraced the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution (backed by Tehran) and went out of its way to keep Saudi Arabia happy, but then they decided to screw our ally," complains a Defense Department official.

[cake_crumb]

Four votes shy of majority does not a State Department fiasco make. In fact, it doesn't make for a fiasco on the part of the Turkish parlaiment either.

It's only FOUR VOTES, man....remain calm. That article is nothing more than blame gaming on the part of both career administration bashers and a very disappointed Turkish market. It's far to early for finger pointing and buck passing yet. In fact, it's far too early to say it won't come up for a revote yet. The only question now is weather a revote, if it occurs, will occur too late.

[demlosers]

Do you know where the U.S. 4th IDs' armor and equipment is located? I'll bet the armor is still close to Turkey or in port. I don't think the U.S. has given up hope for another vote to happen...probably tommorrow.