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The Coming War with Saddam
(Weekly Standard) Stephen F. Hayes - War with Iraq is just short of inevitable. After meeting with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz last week, Turkish prime minister Bulen Ecevit told a Turkish television network, "The American administration is not hiding that it is determined on a military intervention against Iraq." This spring, New Yorker reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, visiting Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq to document Saddam's gassing of villages there in the late-1980s, found stunning, first-hand accounts of active coordination between Saddam's top intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, and al Qaeda.