CBS News - Desert Storm - ground war begins - 3 of 6

Name: CBS News - Desert Storm - ground war begins - 3 of 6
Uploaded: 2025-02-24
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[0:02] by secretary Cheney at the defense

[0:04] department

[0:06] Dan thanks keeping in mind that there's

[0:08] a defense department briefing scheduled

[0:10] shortly after the president finishes his

[0:12] address the defense department briefing

[0:14] will be roughly 10:30 tonight uh eastern

[0:17] time now we have about a minute before

[0:19] the president of the United States is uh

[0:21] due to begin his address and is why said

[0:23] answer some questions the battlefield

[0:25] situation uh now is the the main Force

[0:29] attack across according to David Martin

[0:30] that the Pentagon has begun that

[0:32] includes that uh sweeping uh Force

[0:35] across Southern Iraq designed to uh

[0:38] outflank the Iraqi forces in Kuwait and

[0:41] eventually to help draw out the elite

[0:44] Republican guard either draw them out

[0:46] into an open Warfare in the desert or to

[0:49] hammer them as col Powell has said just

[0:52] Hammer the hell out of them uh as long

[0:54] as they stay in their fixed positions

[0:56] now we want to go to the white house uh

[0:59] as part of our CBS News continuing

[1:01] coverage of the ground war offensive

[1:03] we'll be on the air after the president

[1:05] speaks right now the president of the

[1:07] United States that massive land campaign

[1:10] that we have been led to expect which

[1:13] could only have been averted ladies and

[1:14] gentlemen the president of the United

[1:17] [Music]

[1:24] States good

[1:26] evening yesterday after conferring with

[1:29] my senior National Security advisers and

[1:32] following extensive consultations with

[1:35] our Coalition

[1:36] Partners Sadam Hussein was given one

[1:40] last

[1:41] chance set forth in very explicit terms

[1:45] to do what he should have done more than

[1:48] 6 months ago