Turkish Parliament Speaker Says Troop Vote Rejected

Reuters ^

[Turk2]

NTV says 264 is not enough for approval. 267 was needed.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Dog Gone]

WHAT????

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

That's mighty big of Turkey considering the billions of dollars that we've given them. I wonder how much we had to bribe them to get them to finally relent.

I think it sucks that Turkey manipulated this whole situation to see how much money and grief they could weasel out of the United States. We'll remember this in the future. We never should have allowed them NATO defensive weaponry until they agreed to accommodate our troops.

[smokeyjon]

Tony Snow just reported that 267 was needed.

[willgetsome]

Lets not get ahead of ourselves:


"But Turkey and the United States still have to seal an agreement over the military, political and economic conditions of the deployment before troops can arrive and ships carrying armor for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division anchored off the Turkish coast can begin to unload"

[byteback]

Great news. I have a beer riding that we attack by the 13th. Brit Hume was talking about late March last night but that seems way late and into the April heat.

[smokeyjon]

FNC crawl: Opposition partuy in Turkey is challenging the vote because it was not an absolute majority

[cookcounty]

Yes : 264
No : 251
Abs : 19

264 is a plurality, but not a majority
(total votes=534, 267 is exactly half, 268 would be majority)

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

THE WAR STARTS TONIGHT!!!!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Let's hope they don't know the Florida recount move.

Oops, opposition party now challenging the results since it wasn't a majority.

You and your big mouth keyboard! :^)