CBS Evening News - 1991-02-22

Name: CBS Evening News - 1991-02-22
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[0:02] [music]

[0:04] An ultimatum to Iraq from President

[0:06] Bush. Get out [music] of Kuwait by noon

[0:08] tomorrow. A defiant Iraq responds,

[0:11] denouncing President Bush as an enemy of

[0:13] God and scorched earth. [music]

[0:16] The oil fields of Kuwait are on fire.

[0:20] This is a special war [music] update

[0:22] edition of the CBS Evening News. Dan

[0:25] Rather reporting tonight live from Saudi

[0:27] Arabia. Good evening. Kuwait is burning.

[0:30] With Kuwait's oil fields in flames and a

[0:33] US-led force straining at the borders of

[0:35] Iraq and Kuwait, George Bush, Saddam

[0:38] Hussein, and Mikail Gobber duled with

[0:40] each other today over the terms of peace

[0:43] and war. Mr. Bush gave Iraq an

[0:45] ultimatum. Get out of Kuwait in 7 days

[0:47] starting tomorrow or else. Iraq said it

[0:50] supports the easier terms of yet another

[0:53] new Gorbach plan. Wyatt Andrews begins

[0:56] our coverage.

[0:58] Dan, well aware that Iraq was trying to

[1:00] cut that easier deal with the Soviet

[1:02] Union. President Bush, by contrast, laid

[1:04] out a crystal clear step-by-step

[1:07] ultimatum for Saddam Hussein, the kind

[1:09] of ultimatum that demands a humiliating

[1:12] immediate surrender. The coalition

[1:16] will give Saddam Hussein until noon

[1:19] Saturday

[1:21] to do what he must do, begin his

[1:25] immediate and unconditional withdrawal

[1:29] from Kuwait.

[1:31] We must hear publicly

[1:34] and authoritatively

[1:36] his acceptance of these terms. Mr. Bush

[1:39] warned that Saddam can avoid an Allied

[1:41] ground offensive only if Iraq begins its

[1:44] withdrawal by noon tomorrow, completes

[1:46] the withdrawal in 7 days and removes its

[1:49] troops from Kuwait City itself within

[1:51] the first 48 hours. The president

[1:53] dem