Having spent more time avoiding mainstream coverage tainted by patriotic and 'our boys' bias two things caught my attention. First was my quote of the week from Arundhati Roy:

"It may well be that if Saddam's regime falls there will be dancing on the streets of Basra. But then, if the Bush regime were to fall, there would be dancing on the streets the world over."

Second was a cartoon that made me smile anyway -

Rumsfeld to media - "Don't worry everything is going exactly to plan!"
Two generals in the background -
"What does he mean everythings going to plan?"
"Ahh yes, he means everything going according to the 'under no circumstances admit it's not going to plan' plan"