[YaYa123]

Tom Brokaw live on NBC says these television images are being broadcast live on Al jazeera, Egyptian, and all Arabic television.

Tim Russert says this moment is "the tipping point". He says this statue we are waiting to see fall, was built to honor Saddam's upcoming 65th birthday.

NBC flips to a big building burning on a top floor, or maybe the roof. I don't know more than the sight of it. Maybe it's a building on Baghdad University where the marines have been engaged in a fierce fight for a few hours. Martin Savage of CNN is with that particular unit.

[Kevin Curry]

Tim Russert says this moment is "the tipping point". He says this statue we are waiting to see fall, was built to honor Saddam's upcoming 65th birthday.

His 66th would have been more poetically appropriate, but this will certainly do.

[ThinkingMan]

CBS asking why it took 21 days of fighting before the people of Iraq would pull down the statue. They just don't get it!