Maybe we should talk Turkey with Russia

Turkey wants $30 billion in aid before she’ll let us use her territory to step off against Iraq.
Saddam owes the Russians $9 billion. (I keep hearing that number on Fox, I don’t have a link.)
I say we offer the Russians a cool $9 billion, plus $6 billion as a bonus, to switch sides and back us in the UN. And tell the Turks to get ready for an independent Kurdistan on their southeastern border.
Any American who doesn’t get on board with a 50% sale price is clearly a traitor 🙂 $15 billion is chump change to us, but we should never pay a dime to those who try to extort money from us.