Wolfowitz says Turkey made `big, big mistake' in denying use of land

Associated Press ^ | 03/27/03 | KEN GUGGENHEIM

[Willie Green]

By all means, just step in there Paul and make matters worse.

Wolfowitz isn't very bright, is he?

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[TopQuark]

Turkey's government "didn't quite know what it was doing" in failing to win parliamentary approval to allow U.S. troops the right to use its territory to invade Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday.

I respectfuly disagree with Wolfowitz: they knew exactly what they were doing. Having been threatened by the French and the Belgians that the Turkish ascendancy to the European Union will be blocked, they were between the rock and the hard place.

[TADSLOS]

Loose cannon on deck.

[jwalsh07]

No loose cannon here, Wolfowitz is simply commenting on Turkey's Parliamentary Rules and the new admiinistrations lack of familiarity with same.

[annyokie]

Whew! Glad you explained it and I didn't have to!

[AMNZ]

I believe in leaving bases like PSAB the way they were before we "desecrated" their precious dirt (sand that is).

[JasonC]

My understanding is that it was conditional on an agreement that they go in no more than 12 miles, keep no permanent buffer zone, and take no major population centers. Which they agreed to a few days ago. Hence the billion, it seems to me.

[Antoninus]

Of course the pinheads in Washington made a big, big mistake by threating to engineer the overthrow, by military coup, of the elected government of Turkey if they didn't cooperate.

Of course, you're now going to produce the source of this ridiculous claim.

[pkpjamestown]

The Threat of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation from Turkey !

[LizardQueen]

Wolfowitz gives me the creeps, and I don't know why. He has ever since the first time I saw him speak.
At some visceral level I don't trust him or his motivations for doing things, and can't help but think he has a secret agenda of his own (yeah, maybe it's tinfoil time, but I just feel that way about him).

LQ

[pkpjamestown]

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHINA'S EXPORT OF ROCKET TECHNOLOGY TO TURKEY !

[pkpjamestown]

Wolfowitz Knows!

[paul51]

Turkey is a secular Muslim nation

Therein lies the problem

[WaterDragon]

What's "out of context?" Turkey's decision is killing Americans. That's fairly serious, don't you think? Wolfowitz merely spoke the truth. Something Turkey needs to learn to do.

[RJL]

Israel plans water pipeline from Turkey

We had "plans" to send our troops through Turkey too. Israel better be ready for the Turkish knife to the back.

[ffusco]

I had know idea! Turtles!

[ffusco]

"Wolfowitz says Turkey made `big, big mistake' in denying use of land"


This was taken completely out of context in a noisy room. Wolfowitz made a big, big mistake ordering a Turkey salad for lunch at the cafeteria, it was bland.

[ChinaThreat]

I respect your opinion but disagree. Wolfowitz is a brilliant man and a man's man at that. He tells it how is is. No BS. Some people can't handle the truth as Jack Nicholson says.

[pkpjamestown]

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