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...have any problem," Norm said. "Our objective was to drive 'em out, and we've done it. But let me talk to my commanders, and unless they've run into a snag I don't know about, I don't see why we shouldn't stop...
...time the President made his final decision to suspend hostilities, 5:57. It was the Commander in Chief's decision to make, and he had made it. Every member of his policymaking team agreed. Schwarzkopf and I agreed. And there is no doubt in my mind that if Norm or I had had the slightest reservation about stopping now, the President would have given us all the time we needed...
...would make to the American people that night. Shortly after 6 p.m., I got on the phone again with Schwarzkopf. I told him the President would speak at 9 our time to announce that the fighting would stop at 8 a.m. the following morning Riyadh time. That would give Norm almost the one more day he had asked for in our conversation earlier in the morning...
...President and then Cheney came on the line to congratulate him. "Helluva job, Norm," the President said...
Schwarzkopf was soon back on the phone with a cautionary note. The gate was still slightly open, he told me. Some Republican Guard units and T-72 tanks could slip away. I told him to keep hitting them, and I would get back to him. I passed Norm's report to the President and the others. Although we were all taken slightly aback, no one felt that what we had heard changed the basic equation. The back of the Iraqi army had been broken. What was left of it was retreating north. There was no need to fight a battle...