The Death of Baathism - in Iraq anyway. Here's Kanaan Makiya's latest entry in which he says "Baathism died in Iraq yesterday. The sight of the oversized bronze head of Saddam rolling in the dust and being beaten with shoes by exuberant Iraqis is perhaps the most important image of Iraqi politics of the last 50 years. It was the end of the republic of fear. Two Iraqis with whom I was camping out in Washington, D.C., woke me up at 5 a.m. yesterday so we could watch the images of a free Iraq. Tears rolled down our cheeks uncontrollably."

Well that pretty much describes how I felt watching those images. I just pray that the joyous momentum can be maintained.