Turkey Conditions Troop Deployment On More U.S. Aid

The Turkish government yesterday demanded Washington significantly enhance a multibillion-dollar aid package before it receives new U.S. troops, a move that threatened to scramble the Bush administration's plans to use Turkey to open a northern front against Iraq.

The delay in Turkish approval -- which administration officials had expected by yesterday -- has left four U.S. ships carrying tanks and other heavy equipment for the Army's 4th Infantry Division stranded off the Turkish coast. Twenty to 30 ships to supply an estimated 15,000 troops are expected to arrive shortly, and U.S. officials said a decision must be made within the next 48 hours before the equipment is sent elsewhere and the war plans redrawn.
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Damned if they do, damned if they don't
Drop the pretension -- Bush administration is determined to invade Iraq

It would be so much easier if the Bush administration just dropped the confusing pretension of an earnest campaign for truth, international cooperation and the rule of law. The reality is and has been that the U.S. is determined to invade Iraq whether or not it has weapons of mass destruction and no matter the findings of the weapons inspectors or the judgment of the Security Council.
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Who's Dumber...Bush or Us?
Are They That Stupid?

Are they really that stupid that they could present a plagiarized paper by a UCLA graduate student pulled off the internet as their "top secret proof" of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and think that nobody would notice? Hard to believe, but that's exactly what Prime Minister Tony Blair did, and what US Secretary of State Colin Powell cited as "proof".

Are they really that stupid that they could offer detailed "before and after" satellite photos of Iraqi trucks said to be "possibly" transporting Iraqi weapons, and then an empty space as "proof" that the trucks loaded up and quickly departed without acknowledging that the photos, as pointed out by Hans Blix, were actually taken two weeks apart?
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This Modern World: Lethal Buddies!
Coming soon from Bush Administration Productions