World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-09
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[0:05] >> from ABC News. This is World News
[0:09] Saturday. Here's Carol Simpson.
[0:12] >> Good evening. For nine long hours today,
[0:14] President Bush's two top military
[0:16] advisers met with allied commanders in
[0:19] the Persian Gulf to discuss the
[0:21] advisability of launching a major ground
[0:23] offensive against Iraq. Attention was
[0:25] focused on Defense Secretary Cheney,
[0:28] General Coen Powell, chairman of the
[0:29] Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Allied
[0:32] Commander General Norman Schwarzoff as
[0:34] they considered the question that's
[0:36] dominated the Gulf all week. When will
[0:38] the ground war start? As ABC's Bob
[0:41] Zelnik has learned, commanders in the
[0:43] field are in no hurry.
[0:46] As Cheney, Powell, and Schwarzoff began
[0:48] their dayong series of meetings,
[0:50] informed military sources told ABC News
[0:53] that the leadership of Operation Desert
[0:55] Storm wants to rely exclusively on air
[0:58] power for another 30 days before
[1:00] combining that with a ground campaign to
[1:03] drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
[1:06] Knowledgeable sources here say the
[1:08] command has concluded that another month
[1:10] of heavy bombing will seriously hurt the
[1:12] Republican guards and other key Iraqi
[1:14] units, resulting in lower US and allied
[1:17] casualties when the ground war begins.
[1:20] In recent days, military intelligence
[1:22] here has estimated that Iraq has lost at
[1:25] least 750 tanks and about 20% of overall
[1:29] combat capability in the Kuwait theater.
[1:32] based on analysis of its war with Iran.
[1:34] Officials here say many Iraqi units are
[1:37] nearing casualty levels where they might
[1:39] soon be withdrawn from combat. In
[1:42] addition, successful allied air