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  • Another Flub? Bush Vowed Navy Aid to Georgia Too Soon (Not My Headline)

    08/17/2008 8:48:13 PM PDT · by kristinn · 37 replies · 271+ views
    McClatchy ^ | Sunday, August 17, 2008 | Jonathan S. Landay
    President Bush Wednesday promised that U.S. naval forces would deliver humanitarian aid to war-torn Georgia before his administration had received approval from Turkey, which controls naval access to the Black Sea, or the Pentagon had planned a seaborne operation, U.S. officials said Thursday. As of late Thursday, Ankara, a NATO ally, hadn't cleared any U.S. naval vessels to steam to Georgia through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, the narrow straits that connect the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, the officials said. Under the 1936 Montreaux Convention, countries must notify Turkey before sending warships through the straits. Pentagon officials told McClatchy...