We're now on Saddams doorstep:

The battle for Baghdad reached its international airport Thursday, after U.S. forces rolled through a six-mile shooting gallery — a single-lane road on the capital's southern outskirts with Iraqi fighters firing from all sides.


Artillery fire could be heard near Saddam International Airport. Tracer rounds raced through the blackened sky; officers of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division said the attack on the airport had begun.


To the southeast, in Kut, Marines fought building to building, at one point mowing down a small group of Iraqis with AK-47s who tried a suicide charge against a tank. To the northwest, at Lake Tharthar, Special Operations forces raided one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces.

How quickly we have gone from a pause to bringing hell to the Republican Guard and the Baath Party.