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<p>MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — President Bush yesterday said elite Iraqi forces outside Baghdad are coming under "direct and intense attack" from coalition soldiers and warned Saddam Hussein "there will be a day of reckoning for Iraq, and that day is drawing near."</p>

<p>March 14, 2003 -- For the first time, Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday suggested that the Bush administration may be ready to pull the plug on diplomacy and finally move against Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>It's about time.</p> <p>"The day of reckoning is fast approaching," Powell said on Capitol Hill.</p>