Holbrooke slams Bush policy on Turkish troops

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül said that the US had failed to take a clear stand over the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq and said that the US was embarrassed over what had happened.
November 10 – A former US diplomat has lambasted the Bush Administration over its handling of the issue of trying to have Turkish troops deployed in Iraq.
Richard Holbrooke, who served as the US’s ambassador to the UN under President Clinton, described the Bush policy over Turkish troops as a fiasco and said the US should not have asked the Turkish parliament to approve the deployment before gaining assurances that the troops would be welcome in Iraq.