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Turkey's Decision Continues To Resonate


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Turkey's decision continues to resonate

 

The Associated Press

 

 

WASHINGTON — The level of insurgency in Iraq would not be so high if the U.S.-led coalition had been able to invade through Turkey, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday.

 

Rumsfeld told “Fox News Sunday” that if the United States had been able to get its 4th Infantry Division into northern Iraq through Turkey, more of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime would have been captured or killed, diminishing the insurgency.

 

U.S. forces had to enter Iraq from the south, so by the time Baghdad was taken, much of Hussein's military and intelligence services had dissipated into the northern cities, Rumsfeld said.

 

 

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