Kos discusses Bush's/America's refusal to give up on Turkey, and how we're leaving our ships right around there, as well as the prospects for another parliament vote:

Whether the Turkish parliament will vote again remains to be seen. Some cabinet members have suggested the government will call a new vote, while the PM has said he won't. And Parliament itself, which will reconvene Tuesday, doesn't appear to eager to revisit the issue (which has hung a political albatross on every legislator who voted "yes").

To me, in terms of Dubya, it's not as much that he won't take no for an answer. It's that he never hears "no". This would explain every inch of the administration's ineptness in its diplomacy. Bush, still a schoolyard kid, understands threats, blackmail, and yes, spying, much more than he understands productive diplomacy. Why in the heck did we dismiss Canada's UN proposal just like that? (you know, brendan, if you talked about russian lesbian popstars more, you'd get more traffic -ed. shut up!)