CBS Evening News - 1990-11-12
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[0:05] Questions about the US Persian Gulf
[0:07] troop escalation.
[0:08] Iraq talks peace, but stands pat. And
[0:12] Israel debates a ban on Arab workers.
[0:18] This is the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather
[0:21] reporting. Good evening.
[0:23] President Bush's sudden move to double
[0:25] US forces in the Persian Gulf came in
[0:27] for some tough questioning today. World
[0:30] leaders called for more diplomatic
[0:31] efforts, and in this country, members of
[0:33] Congress pointed out that Mr. Bush took
[0:35] his high-risk military gamble without
[0:38] consulting the Congress or the American
[0:40] people. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
[0:42] Democrat of New York, said, and I quote,
[0:44] "If George Bush wants his presidency to
[0:46] die in the Arabian desert, he's going at
[0:49] it very steadily, as if it were a plan."
[0:52] End quote. CBS News White House
[0:54] correspondent Wyatt Andrews begins our
[0:56] report.
[0:58] The president's order to send 200,000
[1:01] fresh troops to the Gulf was designed to
[1:03] shake up Saddam Hussein, but it has also
[1:05] aroused the first serious opposition to
[1:08] Mr. Bush's 3-month run of virtually
[1:10] unchallenged policy.
[1:12] For the first time, some on Capitol Hill
[1:14] suggest the president has exceeded his
[1:16] constitutional power and should ask
[1:18] Congress now for a declaration of war.
[1:21] No American should want a government
[1:23] where one man can commit 250 million
[1:27] Americans, incur thousands of casualties
[1:30] of their own single authority. This
[1:33] nation previously has had declarations
[1:35] of war simply as a standby authority of
[1:37] the president, a message to an
[1:39] adversary.
[1:39] >> As soldiers continue to pour into the
[1:42] Gulf, this contingent of