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Dunsmore said the way the news media covers battlefields has changed drastically--"from the 60's when it would take many days [to make the information available] to the liberation of Kuwait which was covered, at least in part, live...
...began in Iraq on Jan. 17, 1991, one day after the U.N. Security Council deadline for Saddam to leave Kuwait had passed. The bombing went so well that by mid-February, Bush was eager to start the ground offensive. Powell relayed the President's wishes to Schwarzkopf, but setting a date proved to be trickier than Powell expected...
...already spoken to Norm Schwarzkopf earlier in the morning and told him I sensed we were nearing endgame. The prisoner catch was approaching 70,000. Saddam had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait. The last major escape route was choked with fleeing soldiers and littered with the charred hulks of nearly 1,500 military and civilian vehicles. Reporters began referring to this road as the "Highway of Death...
While the belief that Saddam pulled off some sort of Dunkirk at the end of Desert Storm may have a superficial attraction, I want to cut it off and kill it once and for all. It is true that more tanks and Republican Guard troops escaped from Kuwait than we expected. And yes, we could have taken another day or two to close that escape hatch. And yes, we could have killed, wounded or captured every single soldier in the Republican Guard in that trap. But it would not have made a bit of difference in Saddam's future conduct...
...then asked if it was worth going to war to liberate Kuwait. It was a Clausewitzian question, which I posed so that the military would know what preparations it might have to make. I detected a chill in the room. The question was premature, and it should not have come from me. I had overstepped; I was only supposed to give military advice. Nevertheless, as National Security Adviser for Ronald Reagan, I had wrestled with the politics and economics of crises for almost two years in the White House, in this very room. I had participated in superpower summits. More...