'STUPID' RECRUITMENT OF TURKS: Even the prowar flack Thos.Friedman says that our attempt to bring Turkish troops into Iraq was STUPID (NYT24OCT): Iraqis still resent the Turks who tyrannized over them for 400 years!
The Turkish leaders really foxed us. They took an $8 billion bribe from us to provide the troops--in the face of a huge majority of Turks opposing the whole Iraq project. Then they just waited for the Iraqi rage-reaction to excuse their backing off from sending the troops.