Gary Secondino: WarTerrorism, Arms, Actions, SecurityTurks Try Anal Probe On Bush- February 19, 2003 Turkey Demands $32 Billion U.S. Aid Package if It Is to Take Part in a War on Iraq. Turkish officials demand an economic aid package worth as much as $32 billion to ensure their participation in a war with Iraq. By Dexter Filkins with Eric Schmitt. New York Times: Businesshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/war/2003/02/19.html#a710 It's Not About Oil. Righhht- February 12, 2003 by Jacob Levich Here's the prewar zeitgeist in a nutshell: In a widely reported January 16 speech, Tony Blair proclaimed that the impending invasion of Iraq "has nothing to do with oil, or any of the other conspiracy theories put forward." One week later, Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quietly passed word to Russia and France that their countries will be frozen out of staggeringly lucrative postwar oil contracts unless they roll over and endorse the US.http://www.counterpunch.org/levich02082003.html 3 NATO Members and Russia Resist U.S. on Iraq Plans.- February 11, 2003 New York Times - PARIS, Feb. 10 France and Germany closed ranks against the United States today, blocking attempts by NATO to begin military planning for a conflict with Iraq and issuing a joint declaration with Russia calling for intensified weapons ...Berlin faces criticism at home over Turkey blockage Deutsche Welle Foreign Minister Petersen critical of NATO split over Iraq and Turkeyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/international/middleeast/11IRAQ.html?ex=1045544400&e... |