The U.S. could have never even flown those troops in from the north had not the Turkish government granted use of Turkish air space. This was crucial to the easy victory in the North. On the other hand, for those who take their marching orders from that ungrateful receipts of U.S. welfare, like Bibi, these facts are poured down the Orwellian memory hole.
We did not want to take them in by air. We wanted to land them by ship in a Turkish port and take them by land into Iraq west of Baghdad. That was going to be one whole division. The air strips in Kurdistan was what we were left with, not what we had wanted to start with. Thanks to Turkey.