World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-07

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-07
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[0:00] Back here at 6

[0:02] >> from ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:05] with Peter Jennings.

[0:06] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with the

[0:08] widespread apprehension about an

[0:10] anticipation of a ground war between

[0:12] Iraq and the Allied coalition. The

[0:14] commander of British forces in the Gulf

[0:15] said today that such a war is

[0:17] inevitable. The French president,

[0:18] France, goes even further and says

[0:20] sometime in the next 3 weeks. The

[0:23] chairman of the joint chiefs of staff

[0:24] and the secretary of defense leave for

[0:26] Saudi Arabia tonight to discuss a land

[0:29] war with the overall commander of allied

[0:30] forces, General Norman Schwarzkoff, who

[0:33] is playing his cards very close to his

[0:34] chest. ABC's Sam Donaldson spent the day

[0:37] with him.

[0:39] >> General Schwarzkoff spent most of the

[0:41] day in a forward area near the Saudi

[0:43] Arabian border behind which Iraqi forces

[0:46] wait. This tank unit is about 10 miles

[0:48] from the border. General Schwarzoff has

[0:50] come here today to check the morale of

[0:52] his troops and see whether they're ready

[0:54] to go if that's necessary. The troops

[0:56] seemed up and ready to go. And Schwarzko

[0:59] took issue with the report that Allied

[1:01] bombing has not substantially reduced

[1:03] the fighting ability of Iraq's elite

[1:05] Republican Guard.

[1:06] >> Well, I think we've been very effective.

[1:07] I think we've done as much as we thought

[1:09] we do to this to this point and probably

[1:11] more.

[1:12] >> Some Pentagon official unnamed quoted

[1:14] the New York Times as saying it only

[1:16] reduced it by about 10%.

[1:17] >> Yeah. Well, it's amazing how some of

[1:19] these unnamed Pentagon officials get

[1:20] their informati