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People in Turkey are afraid of Saddam Hussein

I don't believe that has anything to do with it. This decision is the result of the fact that Turkey is islamic. Did we really beleive that the nutcakes are NOT in charge when they elected them as the majority of their parliament?

Turkey cannot be trusted here... AND can be expected to invade the north in an attempt to kill their opposition to a greater Turkey in the north. It will not suprise me if they end up firing on American Troops in the region.

So be it, we have a job to do.. and its gonna be bloodier than we hoped... so much for our coalition... we go it mostly alone in this world. In a way... these alliances with whackjobs, only get in the way of policy and pursuit of the evil doers. This way we can do what we want to without regard to how it affects these supposed "allies" of ours.

they are fools.

What you might or might not believe about the folks in Turkey is beside the point. They are afraid. The Israelis are afraid. The Qataris and Kuwaitis are afraid. The Pope is afraid (he has a lot of property there in the way of Saddam's missiles, and a lot of Christians live there and will be killed by Saddam for no reason at all.)

Your reasoning is flawed. It was the pious Muslins that voted for the motion whereas, the Leftist opposition party was completely against it. The AKP had polled its members and the outcome had been that only 30 MP's would vote against the motion. This result may have been the reason behind the abstanations and the unexpected increase in votes against the motion from the AKP. They just thought the motion would be accepted anyway, since the margin was huge, and wanted to cover their political asses in the future when the US pulled out of Iraq and left us with a mess on our hands in a few years.

You must understand that previous administrations have greatly damaged the credibility of the United States. Nobody trusts the US anymore because all they have done for the last several decades is to engage in a conflict and pull out as soon they have achieved their goals or have lost more people than the press could tolerate. The same thing happened over and over again in Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq to name a few.