"U.S.-Turkey checkpoint
TODAY'S COLUMNIST
By Tulin Daloglu
January 6, 2006
President Bush recently admitted, 'The work in Iraq has been especially difficult -- more difficult than we expected.' Would it be less difficult if the Turks allowed U.S. troops to cross the border from Turkey to Northern Iraq? In March, on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, 'Given the level of the insurgency today, two years later, clearly, if we had been able to get the 4th Infantry Division in from the north through Turkey, more of the Iraqi Saddam Hussein Ba'athist regime would have been captured or killed.' "
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