The Turkish parliament has just voted to allow the basing of US troops on Turkish soil to open a northern front against Iraq. Turkey is the latest of the two dozen or so countries to join the US in its "go it alone" campaign to liberate Iraq.

Oops. It looks like the aforementioned Turkish vote has just been nullified by the speaker of the Parliament. Well, maybe the Turks aren't going to mind having an independent Kurdistan on their southern border after all.