was quite flustered by questions on what he meant by all that spew. The best he could come up with is the 8 billion we are loaning Turkey to prop up their economy might be construed as a bribe. They may send a few thousand troops but if they had allowed us to bridgehead from Turkey it would have been 30 billion if my memory serves.

The 30 billion was all out in the open and I don't recall anyone saying the 30 billion was a bribe at the time.

Even with all the Bush bashing, until I read your post the most support I had seen for Teddy's remarks from either side was that he had a constitutional right to say what he wants. Even his ex-press secretary was hard pressed to support his behavior in a FOX interview.