World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-04-16 (missing intro)
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[0:00] health care costs. A rail strike could
[0:02] potentially idle hundreds of thousands
[0:05] of workers
[0:06] and a
[0:08] supplies into the harsh mountains along
[0:10] the Turkish border was just not working.
[0:12] We must encourage the Kurds
[0:15] to move to areas in northern Iraq
[0:18] where the geography facilitates
[0:20] rather than frustrates such a
[0:22] large-scale relief effort. The president
[0:24] said the US military would establish
[0:26] refugee camps on lower ground where
[0:28] food, equipment, and medicine would be
[0:30] distributed to the refugees. Let me
[0:32] reassure them that adequate security
[0:34] will be provided at these temporary
[0:36] sites
[0:37] by US, British, and French air and
[0:40] ground forces.
[0:42] That's a switch. The administration said
[0:44] as recently as Friday no US ground
[0:46] forces would be used to protect the
[0:48] refugees. The president insisted,
[0:50] however, that Saddam Hussein was
[0:51] unlikely to attack them and that they
[0:53] would be there only temporarily. All
[0:55] along I have said
[0:57] that the United States is not going to
[0:59] intervene militarily in Iraq's internal
[1:02] affairs
[1:03] and risk being drawn into a
[1:04] Vietnam-style quagmire.
[1:07] This remains the case.
[1:09] Nor will we become an occupying power
[1:12] with US troops patrolling the streets of
[1:15] Baghdad.
[1:16] We intend to turn over the
[1:17] administration of and security for these
[1:19] sites
[1:21] as soon as possible to the United
[1:22] Nations. The president refused to accept
[1:25] the blame critics have assigned him for
[1:27] allegedly encouraging Iraqis to rebel
[1:29] against Saddam Hussein, then abandoning
[1:32] the Kurds when they did just that. Do I
[1:35] think that the United States should bear
[1:36] guilt
[1:37] uh bec