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We need the Northern front, Kurds & US forces to make a move
on Kirkuk, Mosul and then Tikrit. The Saddam forces are getting re-inforcements from Syria and other arab countries.
Turkey is holding up the Northern Front on purpose.
The Kurds are our Allies,Turkey is not !
444 posted on 04/02/2003 2:07:33 AM PST by Orlando
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So why was Powell over there pandering to the Turks? Everything you said makes sense, his visit does not.
455 posted on 04/02/2003 2:13:10 AM PST by hmmmmm
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To: Orlando
Kurds are our Allies,Turkey is not !

Did you catch the piece on Turkey tonight on FoxNews? They gave a very interesting explanation for Turkey's failure to allow our troops access. It seems that the Turk army raised the objection to the deployment. Their army admin raised a huge objection that the number of troops we wanted to deploy (70,000 was the number used during the piece). They felt that number was too large for just a move on Iraq from the north and that they thought we were really going to use Turkey as a staging base for an invasion of Syria. So they screamed at the the government and the government went along with the objection. As the Turk government official put it, '6 billion or 60 billion in aid wouldn't make up for 7-8 years of having their region in flames.'

Today, the Turk army officials gave word that they underestimated the strength of Iraq's resistance and now see the need for the deployment, i.e., they were wrong and they're sorry.

It may be a cya story but it could be the reason they said no.

470 posted on 04/02/2003 2:21:19 AM PST by Ophiucus
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