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Shaffer
03-13-03, 08:30 AM
More than 20,000 U.S. Marines, spirits high and prepped for battle, assembled Wednesday on a non-descript patch of desert in northern Kuwait, awaiting orders for what a senior officer called "their Guadalcanal" and the test of military and personal willpower.

Target Iraq is within 30 miles. Mesopotamia and the ultimate prize, Baghdad, lay beyond.

The order to move to dispersal areas and lines of departure, however, are still missing. That hangs on President George W. Bush and his expressed determination to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein -- with or without sanction from the U.N. Security Council.

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