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...alliance. Only minutes after one final phone call, to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Bush stepped into the Rose Garden and in measured, determined tones set the Saturday noon deadline by which Saddam had to declare "publicly and authoritatively" that he accepted the allied terms, which spokesman Marlin Fitzwater spelled out shortly after. The time for a pullout was lengthened to a week because some allies thought the original 96 hours was simply impossible; Washington hoped seven days still was not enough time for Saddam to pull out all his tanks, other armor and artillery. Rather astonishingly, the allied firmness...
White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater later said the withdrawal must be completed within seven days, and Iraq muct comply with all U.N. provisions...
...White House said that Baghdad radio's dramatic announcement that Iraq may be willing to withdraw from Kuwait "Clearly contains conditions," and is not enough to stop the Persian Gulf War. White House Spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater said "promises alone are not sufficient...
...precious little, at least as long as the Pentagon jealously guards bomb-damage reports and pictures. Those that it has released may actually intensify the problem, since people may wonder why, if the missiles are doing their job so well, is the war taking so long? White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater took care to warn last week that "there are going to be enemy victories; there are going to be enemy surprises; there are going to be days when we'll see allied losses." And public opinion had best be prepared for the all but inevitable setbacks...
Still, as White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater acknowledged, "We have a tightrope to walk" -- between unrealistic public expectations of victory in a matter of days and an anxious skepticism about whether the U.S. is going to win at all. Says a senior White House official: "People see a few films of a missile striking a building where it's completely precise, and they say, 'If it's going so well, why isn't the war over?' " Another senior official says, "In this video-game war, we have been so successful so far that people may really be shocked...