World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-08
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[0:00] See you again at 6.
[0:01] >> See you then.
[0:04] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:07] with Peter Jennings.
[0:08] >> Good evening. There was a lot of
[0:09] saluting and handshaking in Saudi Arabia
[0:11] today when the top brass got into town.
[0:13] The Secretary of Defense and the
[0:14] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs did their
[0:15] bit for the troops morale. And now they
[0:18] will spend two days going through all
[0:19] the ifs, ands, buts, and warfarers of a
[0:22] land war against the Iraqi forces in
[0:24] Kuwait. picking up from their commanders
[0:26] in the field. As one of them said, the
[0:28] kind of nuance only possible in person.
[0:31] Our Pentagon correspondent Bob Zelnik
[0:33] flew to the Gulf as well.
[0:36] When Secretary Cheney and General Powell
[0:38] arrived in Riad tonight, they were met
[0:40] by General Schwarzoff and Saudi Chief of
[0:42] Staff Muhammad Salah al Hammad. They
[0:45] will discuss the effect of the Allied
[0:47] bombing on Iraqi forces and whether
[0:50] American units recently arrived from
[0:52] Europe are ready for a ground war. On
[0:54] the plane trip over, Cheney and Powell
[0:56] appeared to rule out the idea of relying
[0:59] on air power alone for an extended
[1:01] period. Cheney said ground forces would
[1:04] be needed to expel Iraqi troops from
[1:06] Kuwait.
[1:07] >> I think that's a bit of a false choice.
[1:08] The notion you'd run the air campaign
[1:10] for 6 months, for example. Uh it may
[1:13] well be that one way to make the air
[1:15] campaign more effective is to add other
[1:16] elements uh to the campaign to add the
[1:19] amphibious element or ground forces in a
[1:21] fashion that uh forces him to move out
[1:24] of his prepared positions and that
[1:26] movement out of th