World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-05

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[0:00] It's the 5:00 news. Stay tuned for World

[0:01] News tonight.

[0:05] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:08] with Peter Jennings.

[0:10] >> Good evening. Day 20 of the war, and

[0:11] increasingly the question is not whether

[0:13] the ground war will begin, but when. The

[0:15] answer may come fairly soon.

[0:17] President Bush announced today that he

[0:18] is sending the Secretary of Defense and

[0:20] the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

[0:21] Staff to Saudi Arabia for a status

[0:24] report, says the President.

[0:26] The status report on what we know about

[0:27] the war today runs like this. Very light

[0:29] ground action. Another 1,400 air raids.

[0:32] Baghdad was again a target. So was the

[0:34] area around Saddam Hussein's hometown,

[0:37] Tikrit.

[0:38] Iraq says more than 400 civilians have

[0:40] died since the bombing began.

[0:43] Nothing at all from either side about

[0:44] the military casualties in Iraq. We

[0:46] begin at the White House tonight, and

[0:48] ABC's Brit Hume.

[0:50] >> The President announced the

[0:51] Cheney-Powell mission amid increasing

[0:53] speculation on when a US-led ground

[0:56] offensive might start.

[0:57] >> Uh the purpose of this trip uh will be

[1:00] for them to get a first-hand status

[1:02] report, and I would then look forward to

[1:04] their returning here quickly and meeting

[1:06] with me and and my other senior

[1:08] advisers.

[1:09] >> Mr. President, uh does the Cheney-Powell

[1:11] visit uh over there signal that a

[1:13] decision is at hand

[1:15] on the commencement of uh a ground war?

[1:17] >> No, it doesn't signal that.

[1:19] >> However, everything else Mr. Bush said

[1:21] suggested he thinks a ground war is

[1:23] inevitable, if not imminent. As when he

[1:25] was asked if air power alone migh