CNN - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 1 a.m. (E)
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[0:21] seen we've seen many things. We've seen
[0:23] a an anti-aircraft installation which
[0:26] now has a spinning radar uh dish on top
[0:29] of it that's uh that's in operation.
[0:31] We've seen bombing missions that have
[0:33] left what looks to be either a chemical
[0:36] plant or a refinery in in flames with
[0:39] huge clouds of black smoke puffing out.
[0:41] We've discovered a communications tower
[0:43] in downtown Baghdad that has been
[0:45] damaged by a by a bombing attack that
[0:48] our engineer Nick Robertson Bernie
[0:51] >> John
[0:54] I was down in my room minding my own
[0:57] business.
[0:57] >> Mhm.
[0:58] >> And
[1:00] it seems to me what's going on is a a
[1:05] dichotomy. And I apologize to our
[1:07] viewers around the world
[1:09] >> for having had no sleep in two and a
[1:10] half days. Yeah. Go ahead.
[1:12] >> Um it seems to me that there is a
[1:14] dichotomy here. A dichotomy. And what is
[1:17] happening in my judgment is that
[1:21] the local people, the Baghdadis are
[1:24] saying, Saddam, you conduct your war.
[1:28] We're going to conduct our lives.
[1:30] Because when you hear these reports,
[1:32] when you feel these concussions and from
[1:35] the bombs that I felt, I've been trying
[1:39] to sleep and sleep won't come. My I
[1:43] cannot shut down my mind and I wish I
[1:45] could. Um but it is clear that there is
[1:48] a dichotomy in Baghdad.
[1:52] >> It seems as if the people are saying
[1:54] Saddam, you fight your war, we're going
[1:56] to carry on our lives. But as we look
[1:59] out here at the at the fighting of this
[2:01] war, Bernie, we see very little Iraqi
[2:03] response to what seems to be continuing
[2:05] probes from the American or the uh the
[2:08] coalition forces as they come through
[2:09] here. We this incide