[DeuceTraveler]

"You aren't falling for this baloney are you? State is not undermining anything. The relationship between the DoD and the Turkish military is much easier to obtain that any with the party of nuts which is taking over the government.

There is no split here."


I trust the Turks further than I trust Clinton holdovers in the State Department. Our Department of State has continually been a problem ever since Bush came into office.

[Miss Marple]

Ah-ha! Over on the live Estrada debate thread, Senator Harkin has started criticizing our relations with Turkey, and saying that Turkey was right to turn us down. (Because Harkin is against anything Bush does, not because he actually knows anything about Turkish politics). Harkin, who is a true Clinton supporter, is trying to portray this as a blemish on the Bush administration and proof we shouldn't go into Iraq.

Now who would have had an interest in dissension between allies? I am going to check and see if all of those Rat senators start in about Turkey. If it is one of their talking points for the day, we can figure that they have some operatives in the State Department who gave them a heads up.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Nonsense. Clinton holdovers do not make policy for DoS except in your imagination. And that of Bush-haters.