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So Turkey didn't go along, for good or bad, that was their call. When you are planning a war, you have to expect that everyone is not always going to fall in line.

It can if your willing to grease the palms! Rice would have gotten them in. Powell was an ineffective wimp as a SOS!

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"It can if your willing to grease the palms!"

[insert hindsight 20/20 cliche here]
Really my bigger point was that I don't believe it would have mattered in the least if we came from the north south east and west and even dug up from below with little folding shovels. The resistance would have happened regardless, hell I saw it coming and I'm nobody. The bigger problem of control was in an underestimation of troop numbers.