Rather than get angry at Turkey, the Bush administration argued that its senior officials had played the diplomatic game poorly.

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Bush traveled to Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday for advance meetings with Turkish leaders.

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The Americans seemed to be asking Turkey to help with a war George Bush had not yet publicly declared he would wage, while much of the rest of the world was still scrambling to find a peaceful way out.

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