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Turkey Minister Admits "We were badly mistaken' (My title)
Turkish Daily News ^ | 3/24/2003

Posted on 03/23/2003 11:03:10 PM PST by Colorado Doug

Historic admission SABAH said: "Former foreign minister Yasar Yakis recounts the financial aid shock the USA has given the AK Party: "We thought that America was compelled to get our support. We never believed that America had a Plan B. We were badly mistaken'."

(Excerpt) Read more at turkishdailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: oops; turkeyiraq
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OOPS! Over played that hand.
1 posted on 03/23/2003 11:03:10 PM PST by Colorado Doug
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To: Colorado Doug
Famous Last Words: "You mean deuces aren't wild?"
2 posted on 03/23/2003 11:05:00 PM PST by guitfiddlist
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To: Colorado Doug
They shouldn't play poker with a texas cowboy...
3 posted on 03/23/2003 11:05:07 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: Colorado Doug
"We thought that America was compelled to get our support. We never believed that America had a Plan B. We were badly mistaken'."

The new motto of the Axis of Weasels.

4 posted on 03/23/2003 11:06:18 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Colorado Doug
I'm sorry.......so sorry......
5 posted on 03/23/2003 11:07:06 PM PST by Professional
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To: rolling_stone
And Plan C you will discover if you try starting trouble in N Iraq.
6 posted on 03/23/2003 11:07:30 PM PST by Davea
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To: Colorado Doug
If you've ever done business with the Turks, you'll soon find that while that are generally good guys, they will negotiate you to the point of exhaustion. And then, when you think the deal is done, they'll retrade you one last time.
7 posted on 03/23/2003 11:09:00 PM PST by Mister Magoo
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To: Davea
BRAVO
8 posted on 03/23/2003 11:10:03 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: guitfiddlist
lol
9 posted on 03/23/2003 11:12:07 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead (write, fax, email, or call someone in govt and ask them to please stop the southern invasion)
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To: Colorado Doug
Well, Mr. Minister, that's what you get for trying to bleed one of the best friends you HAD in this world!!
10 posted on 03/23/2003 11:13:19 PM PST by whadizit
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To: Colorado Doug
Turkey COULD HAVE BEEN a partner with the USA.

Turkey and France sleep with the fishes.

11 posted on 03/23/2003 11:13:58 PM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
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To: Colorado Doug
Haha, maybe next time they'll think twice before rejecting $23 billion or whatever it was.

Stupid Turks.

12 posted on 03/23/2003 11:16:22 PM PST by Jonez712 (God bless our troops)
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To: Colorado Doug
We're already witnessing what the endless haggling with Turkey cost us -- American and British lives.
13 posted on 03/23/2003 11:17:39 PM PST by AF68
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To: Colorado Doug
Turkey really should listen to Bush. He means what he says, a rare quality, he said America will not be blackmailed.
14 posted on 03/23/2003 11:18:39 PM PST by swheats
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To: EternalVigilance
Add on "and deeply saddened" at the end of the sentence and it's perfectly encompassing for the entire Axis of Weasels.
15 posted on 03/23/2003 11:21:38 PM PST by SaucyCranberry (Proud Military Wife and Newbie FR Poster)
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To: SaucyCranberry
LOL...yes indeed!

Welcome to FR!!

EV
16 posted on 03/23/2003 11:23:12 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: SaucyCranberry
...and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your family's service to our country.
17 posted on 03/23/2003 11:24:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Colorado Doug
On a tangentally related topic:

What are the chances that a big reason Turk troops are massing on the border is because, having developed an insignificant 'northern front', they expect large numbers of fleeing Ba'ath baddies to escape into Turkey?

And how hard would the US try to prevent that?

Does Turkey have the opportunity to regret twice?

18 posted on 03/23/2003 11:24:47 PM PST by dasboot (Direct from the dirty, dark underbelly.)
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To: Davea
Don't even ask about Plan D...
19 posted on 03/23/2003 11:27:34 PM PST by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality - Ayn Rand)
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To: SaucyCranberry
Welcome! Glad you found FR. Thanks to your hubby for serving in Korea.
20 posted on 03/23/2003 11:30:48 PM PST by Jen (Support our Troops * Stand up to Terrorists * Liberate Iraq)
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