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...That obstructionism was on amazing display at the recent NATO summit in Istanbul. The supremely courageous President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, flies there to beg for our troops to protect his country in the run-up to September elections. Two female election workers had already been murdered and some 16 men had been shot to death by insurgents for registering to vote...
...friends and allies, but we are not servants." JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, speaking to reporters at a NATO summit in Istanbul about his disagreements with U.S. President George W. Bush on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Turkey's role in Europe...
...days before the proposed June 30th deadline-after a request from the Iraqi government and its Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who had been discussing the idea with American officials for more than a week. After a phone call with Allawi from Istanbul, Turkey-where Bush is attending a summit of NATO leaders-Bush said it was okay to go forward the next morning if the security situation permitted. After phone calls early this morning from National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice to Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer in Iraq to make sure that the coast was clear, the decision...
...move done at "warp speed," as one senior administration official put it? The official line here at the NATO summit is that the Iraqis are eager to get going. "It improves his hand," says a senior administration official, referring to Allawi. But there's more than that. Allawi has been saying that he wants martial law. Now that he has his own government, he has the political cover to do it in a way he couldn't before. Now it will be his martial law, if he proceeds, not the Americans'. Of course, it'll be kids from Watts...
...surprise move didn't do much to brighten up an already disappointing summit for Bush. He came to Istanbul with virtually no hope of securing more troops to help pacify the Iraqi terror movement-something the U.S. desperately needs. What he has instead is a commitment from NATO to help train Iraqis forces. That's not a bad thing but training is slow and even the terms of the training-will it be done in Iraq or in Europe? who will do what?-remains to be seen. What's crystal clear is that this is still an American fight...