CBS Evening News - 1991-01-23

Name: CBS Evening News - 1991-01-23
Uploaded: 2026-01-21
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:03] [music]

[0:05] >> The chairman of the Joint Chiefs on the

[0:07] Iraqi army.

[0:09] >> First, we're going to cut it off, and

[0:10] then we're going to kill it.

[0:12] >> Iraq answers with another round of Scud

[0:15] attacks.

[0:20] This is the CBS Evening [music] News,

[0:22] Dan Rather reporting. Good evening.

[0:24] Saddam Hussein fired another barrage of

[0:26] Scud missiles today. Saudi Arabia and

[0:28] Israel both were targets. US Patriot

[0:31] missiles apparently knocked them all

[0:32] out. No casualties. The war is 1 week

[0:35] old today. Pentagon chiefs say it's

[0:38] going according to plan. They decline to

[0:40] predict how long the war may last.

[0:42] Defense Department correspondent David

[0:44] Martin is standing by at the Pentagon.

[0:46] He has the latest, David.

[0:48] >> Dan, 1 week into the war, US and allied

[0:50] bombers are starting to go after the

[0:52] Iraqi army in earnest. Despite all the

[0:55] drama of these Scud missile attacks, the

[0:57] object of this war remains to drive the

[0:59] Iraqi army out of Kuwait. And today, the

[1:02] chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

[1:03] gave the most succinct explanation yet

[1:05] of how he plans to do that.

[1:09] >> Our strategy to go after this army is

[1:11] very, very simple. First, we're going to

[1:12] cut it off, and then we're going to kill

[1:14] it.

[1:14] >> Until now, with the operation still in

[1:16] the cut it off phase, allied war planes

[1:18] have been topping off their fuel tanks

[1:20] and heading for targets further north.

[1:22] Everything from command centers to

[1:23] Saddam's air force.

[1:25] Although only 40 of Iraq's 800 war

[1:27] planes have been destroyed, the

[1:29] commander of Operation Desert Storm says

[1:31] the allies have established air

[1:33] superio