How to Prepare Turkey

In contrast, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has not gone so much as once to Turkey since President Bush began talking about war with Iraq, according to the State Department’s Web site.
In fact, Baker’s very first trip from Washington, a week after Iraq invaded Kuwait, stopped first in Ankara, where he met with Ozal and other Turkish officials. He returned to Turkey a couple months later and then once more a few days before the U.S. bombing of Iraq.
Cicero Says
Also on the Iraq front: Bush seems to be doing better than President Bill Clinton in terms of breaks in the diplomatic ranks over his policies. When Clinton was dithering over whether to stop the Serbian slaughter of Muslims in Bosnia, five American diplomats resigned to protest his policies.
So far, only one career diplomat, John Brady Kiesling, the political counselor at the embassy in Athens, has quit over Iraq policy. Kiesling, in an impassioned resignation letter last week, told Powell the administration’s "fervent pursuit of war" was contrary to U.S. values and interests and involved a "systematic distortion of intelligence" and a "systematic manipulation of American opinion" not seen since Vietnam.
"Has ‘oderint dum metuant’ really become our motto?" he asked.
So many administration officials have been using that phrase we were obliged to look it up. This was a favorite phrase of Caligula’s. Cicero said it — though Seneca rebuked him — and it means "let them hate so long as they fear."