[Brian S]

This is helpful.

[First_Salute]

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

[Cooter]

They should make the $1 Billion in aid conditional on no Turkish troops in Northern Iraq.

[Sub-Driver]

they are now the "french" list...

[Blackyce]

Does Paul ever keep his mouth shut? His boss can get away with saying whatever's on his mind, because he's humorous and intelligent. Wolfowitz is just annoying.

[BushMeister]

I think such comments should only come out of the mouths of Bush or Powell.

[Tailback]

I wonder if the Air Force will close down Incirlik AFB in Turkey now that we have about 4-5 airstrips in Iraq? I'm guessing that would be another blow to the Turkish economy. I figure we'll definately pull out of PSAB in Saudi Arabia, probably keep a presence in Kuwait and Qatar.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Reportedly, Turkey wanted 10% of the oil/gas from Iraq's northern fields, in addition to our cash.

[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.

[paul51]

Turkey is a secular Muslim nation

Therein lies the problem