I want to hold Ari Fleischer down and kick him repeatedly. That is all. Oh, and can we stop with 'shock-and-awe', please? Why not call it by the more famous original name: Blitzkrieg...

Marine Cobra helicopter gunships firing Hellfire missiles swept in low from the south. Then the Marine howitzers, with a range of 30 kilometres, opened a sustained barrage over the next eight hours. They were supported by U.S. Navy aircraft, which dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives and napalm, a U.S. officer told the Herald.

There are rumours that one of those new MOABs was used in Baghdad. That's 25,000 tons of TNT. Funnily enough, thats roughly the equivalent power of the bomb dropped in Hiroshima...

We just lost the BBC Iraqi TV feed....