>> the u.s. war to disarm iraq and oust saddam hussein intensified dramatically today as the air campaign began with massive bombing raids on baghdad and elsewhere. >> the rest of the world saw this as a war of aggression. >> my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger. >> it's getting much, much closer. all the air defenses are opening up around me at the moment. massive shock blast just coming through our windows. i'm going to have to take cover. >> the invasion and the toppling of saddam was really quite easy. the entire campaign did not take more than a month. >> we see the coalition forces advanced from southern iraq near the kuwaiti border. and now into baghdad, it's taken 22 days of war for the coalition to get this far.