(Toronto Star) - Trudy Rubin Watch to see whether Turkish troops who aren't under U.S. command pour over the border into northern Iraq, in an effort to repress Kurdish separatism that might inspire their own Kurds. Pay attention to whether U.S. troops occupy Kirkuk and Mosul quickly and take the oil fields nearby. You can breathe a sign of relief once there is confirmation that U.S. forces have destroyed Iraqi artillery that may launch shells filled with poison gas. If no missiles are fired in early days at Israel, you can be pretty certain that U.S. and British special forces combing Iraq's western desert for launchers have eliminated the threat that chemical weapons can hit the Jewish state. Focus on Baghdad: If bombing cuts Saddam's communications, and the rest of his country falls, someone may finally fire that silver bullet.
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