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Wolfowitz says Turkey made `big, big mistake' in denying use of land
Associated Press ^
| 03/27/03
| KEN GUGGENHEIM
Posted on 03/27/2003 6:06:37 PM PST by Brian S
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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.
Wolfowitz described Turkey's decision as a "big, big mistake" but also acknowledged the United States had asked a lot of Turkey and noted that Turkey has granted overflight rights to American planes.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balkans; geopolitics; iraq; iraqifreedom; middleeast; turkey; war; wolfowitz
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To: First_Salute
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.
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posted on
03/27/2003 6:49:39 PM PST
by
TopQuark
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To: First_Salute
Loose cannon on deck.
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posted on
03/27/2003 6:58:30 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Sua Sponte)
To: TADSLOS
No loose cannon here, Wolfowitz is simply commenting on Turkey's Parliamentary Rules and the new admiinistrations lack of familiarity with same.
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:01:24 PM PST
by
jwalsh07
To: Cooter
Whew! Glad you explained it and I didn't have to!
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:08:16 PM PST
by
annyokie
(provacative yet educational reading alert)
To: Tailback
I believe in leaving bases like PSAB the way they were before we "desecrated" their precious dirt (sand that is).
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:08:43 PM PST
by
AMNZ
To: Cooter
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.
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:09:05 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: gcochran
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.
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:29:40 PM PST
by
Antoninus
(In hoc signo, vinces †)
To: Antoninus
To: Blackyce
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
To: Antoninus
To: LizardQueen
Wolfowitz Knows!
To: Brian S
Turkey is a secular Muslim nationTherein lies the problem
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posted on
03/27/2003 8:03:39 PM PST
by
paul51
To: zarf
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.
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posted on
03/27/2003 8:15:40 PM PST
by
WaterDragon
(Playing possum doesn't work against nukes.)
To: Willie Green
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.
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posted on
03/27/2003 8:21:45 PM PST
by
RJL
To: Cooter
I had know idea! Turtles!
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posted on
03/27/2003 8:26:28 PM PST
by
ffusco
("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
To: WaterDragon
"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.
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posted on
03/27/2003 8:31:49 PM PST
by
ffusco
("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
To: Blackyce
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.
To: ChinaThreat
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