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How fast truth is buried.
Turkey was asked, then offered 3.3 Billion in development aid to allow landing of U.S. troops to invade Iraq.
Turkey denied, even while badly in need for financial support.
Reason for such denial:
The German Secretary of State Joschka Fischer went on a tour visiting Saddam Hussein, the Pope, and then Erdogan in sequence.
Fischer brought a message in agreement with Schroeder, Chiraq, to accept Turkey into the E.U. provided Turkey remains steadfast in denying U.S. landings for invading Iraq.
Schroeder as late as one year ago still responded that Turkey will be admitted but after 15 years of preparations.
The Turks just got a royal screwing with memory failures of this honorable Chiraq/Schroeder/Fischer brain trust.
Oh, hasn't Bush been going through the same tirade when Schroeder suddenly in need of winning his campaign let brutally go with anti-Americanisms.
To be called Hitler by Germans allies seems even in retrospect to be over the hill.
Turkey, you're not the only one that got it.

That's pretty convoluted. The truth is even simpler. Something like 90% of Turks opposed assisting the US in the war. No government is ever going to ignore numbers like that.