Yesterday was rather surreal...first we watched a football game, then we waited for the start of the war. RTL kept showing Baghdad at night. "The streets are empty. Stores and schools are closed." Well, duh! It's 4:00 am in Baghdad. Try finding an open store in Munich at 4:00 am. Right after you sent your kids to school, going through well-populated streets. I don't think so...

Some commander of the American troops' name is William Wallace which provoked Braveheart jokes. We wondered what happened to Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, though.