CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-02-23 - 11:50 a.m. (E)
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[0:02] of the border in their fortified lines
[0:06] and to the north are about 540,000
[0:11] Iraqi troops arrayed in several lines
[0:14] across. On this side of the border sits
[0:17] our forces
[0:19] about 460,000.
[0:21] >> Now how far is it across there? Uh
[0:23] General,
[0:24] >> from where we are to where he is, we're
[0:27] really inside now. We are actually moved
[0:30] inside and within about six miles we're
[0:33] at his positions right now.
[0:35] >> And as our strategists understand it,
[0:37] what Sodom Hussein would really like US
[0:39] forces to do is hit head on into those
[0:42] lines.
[0:42] >> Exactly what he'd like us to do is come
[0:44] straight at him and trick ourselves, die
[0:48] on his fortifications. And of course,
[0:50] that's not what we're going to do.
[0:51] >> What are we going to do, General?
[0:52] >> What we're going to do is two things. We
[0:53] of course will attack along the front
[0:55] here just to keep them busy. And maybe
[0:57] we'll get some breakthroughs. about.
[0:58] Then we're going to swing around
[1:01] and we're going to seal off this entire
[1:03] army of his and perhaps come in from the
[1:07] sea to finish off the ceiling. So that
[1:09] what you have is an army surrounded. Now
[1:12] then they have some choices. Obviously
[1:14] they can surrender.
[1:16] They can fight if they want to. If they
[1:18] want to fight, we come to them from the
[1:21] rear, not from the front like they want.
[1:23] Let's take a look at how it would look
[1:25] uh at ground level. We've prepared a
[1:27] display here, General, using models and
[1:29] all kinds of television technology to
[1:32] give a look at this battlefield.
[1:34] Thousands of tanks. What?
[1:36] >> What you're looking at is an armored
[1:37] division in the a