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A World of Hurt is Coming
 British Harrier G7 pilot Squadron Leader Andy Lewis goes through final pre-mission checks as a U.S. A10 plane takes off from their airbase in Kuwait, Monday, March 17, 2003. Aircraft from the U.S. and Britain are continuing to enforce the no fly zone over southern Iraq  Under a full moon at dawn, a soldier from the U.S. Army's A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment walks past a line of Bradley fighting vehicles Tuesday, March 18, 2003. Earlier, President Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraqor face military action. A company, along with thousands of other U.S. troops, has been in Kuwait for almost four months waiting for war.  Spc. Travis Hunter loads armor-piercing depleted uranium-tipped 25mm shells into his Bradley fighting vehicle while preparing for war with Iraq (news - web sites) while in the desert of western Kuwait Tuesday, March 18, 2003.  U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit take up their positions during a drill in the desert of northern Kuwait Tuesday, March 18, 2003. The Marines are standing by for a possible war with Iraq  British troops from 1st Batallion the Parachute Regiment carry out low-level training excercises outside their camp Eagle 2 in the Kuwait desert, March 18, 2003. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, poised to take Britain to war, suffered his second ministerial resignation over Iraq on Tuesday ahead of what is expected to be a huge parliamentary rebellion over his hawkish policy  A British soldier from the Dragoon Guards 3 Commando carries out training exercises in northern Kuwait, March 18, 2003  British soldier Pvt. Michael Prosser, 19, of A company 1st Battalion Light Infantry battle group, practices close-quarter fighting in Kuwait near the border with Iraq  An unidentified British paratrooper of 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment wears red-tipped .762 caliber tracer bullets for a general purpose machine gun around his neck, after their distribution to paratroopers at Camp Eagle 2 in the Kuwait desert, March 18, 2003
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