CBS Evening News - 1991-02-10
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[0:00] [music]
[0:05] Powell and Cheney return from the Gulf
[0:07] tight-lipped about the timing for a
[0:09] ground war.
[0:11] Whenever the war begins, Saddam Hussein
[0:13] declares Iraq [music] will win.
[0:18] This is [music] the CBS Evening News.
[0:20] Connie Chung reporting.
[0:22] Good evening. Defense Secretary Dick
[0:24] Cheney and General [ __ ] Powell are on
[0:26] their way back to Washington tonight
[0:28] after weekend meetings in Saudi Arabia
[0:30] with Allied commanders. They will meet
[0:32] with President Bush tomorrow on the
[0:34] burning issue when to start the ground
[0:36] war. In the meantime, the air war
[0:38] continues. As Juan Vasquez reports,
[0:42] >> even as more B-52s took off from Britain
[0:45] today to strike Iraqi forces in the
[0:47] Gulf, military commanders declared that
[0:49] there are still more than enough targets
[0:51] in the region to keep Allied pilots
[0:53] [music] busy.
[0:54] >> One airplane takes out one artillery
[0:56] piece, and when he's got 4,000 of them,
[0:58] it's going to take a while to wear him
[1:00] down, despite the fact that we're being
[1:02] very successful at this at the moment.
[1:04] Allied warplanes continue to wipe out
[1:06] bridges used by the Iraqis in an effort
[1:08] to choke their supply lines. The allies
[1:10] are using a variety of fighters,
[1:12] bombers, and control planes over the
[1:14] target area to isolate and starve the
[1:16] Iraqi war machine. The goal is to reduce
[1:19] Allied casualties when the ground war
[1:21] begins.
[1:22] >> It's a busy place up there. It makes LAX
[1:25] and Dallas and Atlanta combined look
[1:28] like uh kids on the block. Iraqi
[1:31] prisoners tell interrogators the bombing
[1:33] is hurting Saddam Hussein's forces. The
[1:35] Iraqi leader has