CBS Evening News - 1991-02-27
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[0:01] Thank you.
[0:04] Thank you. Very happy. Very happy.
[0:12] [screaming]
[0:15] >> This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:18] reporting tonight live from Kuwait City.
[0:20] Good evening. The capital of Kuwait. The
[0:24] candle of freedom now relighted in this
[0:27] country scorched and torched by fleeing
[0:30] Iraqis. There's been the sound of
[0:32] distant artillery. But there are also
[0:34] indications that the war may be drawing
[0:36] to a close. President Bush has announced
[0:38] that he will address the American people
[0:40] at 9:00 8:00 Eastern time this evening
[0:43] amid indications that while the
[0:45] president has turned down Saddam
[0:47] Hussein's bid for a ceasefire, he may be
[0:49] in a position now to claim victory.
[0:51] David Martin is at the Pentagon. David,
[0:55] >> the Allied armies under General Norman
[0:57] Schwarzoff's command descended on the
[0:59] remnants of Iraq's Republican guards,
[1:01] trapped in a coffin corner with an
[1:03] uncrossable river at their back and the
[1:05] most powerful tank force in the history
[1:07] of warfare at their front.
[1:09] >> The gates are closed. There is no way
[1:10] out of here. There is no way out of
[1:12] here. And the enemy is fighting us in
[1:14] this location right here. The commander
[1:16] of Operation Desert Storm made it clear
[1:18] his mission is not only to liberate
[1:20] Kuwait, but to destroy the Republican
[1:22] Guard. And he seemed to take special
[1:24] satisfaction in that.
[1:26] >> The Republican Guard are the ones that
[1:27] went into Kuwait in the first place.
[1:28] They get paid more. They get treated
[1:30] better. Uh and oh, by the way, they also
[1:33] were well to the rear here, okay? So
[1:36] they could be the first ones to bug out