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With only hours before President Bush's Wednesday deadline expires for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq or face a military invasion, thousands of American and British troops have massed along the northern Kuwaiti border with Iraq.

Television news organizations on Tuesday considered whether to keep their staffs in Iraq or heed President Bush's warning, delivered during his address Monday night, for all journalists and foreign nationals to leave Iraq ahead of a military strike.

Three retired military officials discuss the battle plans U.S. planners are likely to use in an Iraq war and how Saddam Hussein's troops might respond.