World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-15

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-15
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[0:00] I'll see. You'll get it fixed.

[0:01] >> See you soon.

[0:04] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:08] with Peter Jennings.

[0:09] >> Good evening. It is 30 days almost to

[0:11] the hour since the war began. A day on

[0:13] which in the US and Europe and all

[0:14] across the Middle East. Millions of

[0:16] people first thought that a political

[0:18] solution to the war was possible and

[0:20] then saw their expectations dashed.

[0:23] Saddam Hussein appeared to say that he

[0:24] would pull out of Kuwait, but he also

[0:26] appeared to say there were certain

[0:28] conditions. A ceasefire, an end to

[0:30] sanctions, all foreign forces out of the

[0:32] region, Israel out of the territories it

[0:34] occupies, the Allied coalition to pay

[0:37] for damage done to Iraq. President Bush

[0:40] said unequivocally conditions are

[0:41] unacceptable.

[0:43] Still, something has happened today,

[0:44] even if governments can't agree at the

[0:46] moment what it is. And so, let's begin

[0:48] to go through it. First, here's our

[0:50] White House correspondent, Britt Hume.

[0:52] For weeks, the president and his

[0:54] advisers have worried that Saddam would

[0:56] put forth a clever peace proposal.

[0:58] designed to take the resolve out of the

[1:00] coalition without taking the Iraqi army

[1:03] out of Kuwait. To Mr. Bush, this

[1:05] morning's announcement from Baghdad

[1:06] seemed just such an attempt. There is

[1:09] nothing new here. It is a hoax. There

[1:12] are new demands added and it I feel very

[1:15] sorry for the people in Iraq and I feel

[1:17] sorry for the families in this country

[1:19] who probably felt as I did this morning

[1:22] when they heard the television that

[1:23] maybe we really had a a shot for peace

[1:26] today. Later, du