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Countdown to War
(Weekly Standard) Stephen F. Hayes - Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was in Ankara to reconfirm with the newly elected government a deal he negotiated with its predecessor back in July giving the United States use of Turkish air bases for military intervention in Iraq. At NATO, nine of the nineteen member countries indicated that they were likely to support the U.S. no matter what. Among them: Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. But even as diplomacy continues, says a senior Pentagon official, "we're developing military plans that have a certain momentum of their own."