Turkish Parliament Speaker Says Troop Vote Rejected

Reuters ^

[arete]

What's "Thank you" in Turkish?

Here's your first billion to pay off the Parliament members.

[EGPWS]

Easy choice.

Don't count on me to disagree with that statement. Somehow I just know that your choice would be easy to make. :)

[willgetsome]

Choice: Rumsfeld or you?

Rumsfeld. Enough said.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Perhaps an abstension is different under Scottish Law.

[chilepepper]

I find the idea of "looking who to blame" for this very distasteful, but I'm sorry:

Colin Powell deserves the blame for this... he is the one that has to get things like this in gear and has failed, along with his UN efforts and, some say, his original influence in not finishing the job in 1991.

I really pains me to say it.

[shrinkermd]

The Turkish Parliament is about to prove the old adage that "most people who commit suicide think they are hurting someone else." This is a catastrophic mistake for them at a time they are on the verge of being a European as well as an oriental power.

If they are nothing but Islam, they will be accorded very little to nothing in the globalizing and unifying national powers.

[clintonh8r]

Too bad FR doen't accommodate emoticons. We could put big smiley faces on the bad news.

[willgetsome]

Or give out small Oscar awards to the forum drama queens.

[ez]

I'll be very interested to hear the US reaction to this.

I'm wondering why, once we control the skies, we can't just airlift our troops into forward positions already established with the help of the Kurds and have a Northern Front anyway?

[clintonh8r]

One thing's for sure...we'd have a target rich environment today.

[clintonh8r]

or Pollyannas

[A. Pole]

$15 Billion for 62,000 troops = $241,935.48 per troop.

Or rather "$15 Billion for 264 votes = $56,818,181.81 per vote". $227 million more is needed.

[EGPWS]

Check your facts, Iraq doesn't have the military force today that it had in '91.

You are correct Sir/Maam! They don't.

I'm eagerly awaiting your response to enlighten me with how your response to me on this subject is relevant. :)

[veronica]

Colin Powell deserves the blame for this... he is the one that has to get things like this in gear and has failed, along with his UN efforts and, some say, his original influence in not finishing the job in 1991.

I was just saying this to Mom-o-veronica. When the US goes on bended knee to the UN, and begs for support for months on end, weakness is the message the world gets. Strength is what is understood, and it's better to be feared than loved. Tuck Furkey...;)...(if they don't change their minds next week.) So we will just have to make it without them. We have plenty of other dependable allies.

[A. Pole]

The Turkish military steps in, or the Turkish economy implodes and there will be a Kurdish state after all.

All three are possible together.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Perhaps an abstension is different under Scottish Law.

That Scottich Law really gets around.

IMO, another $5B solves the problem.