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...Saadam] is exploiting the Palestinian issue to destroy Israel," said Dershowitz, whose 10-minute address concluded the rally...
...President went on TV to deliver a speech that had been in preparation for weeks. His manner was somber and determined. The U.S. goal, he said, "is not the conquest of Iraq; it is the liberation of Kuwait." But in the process, he indicated, the anti-Iraq coalition would destroy the offensive military machine that made Iraq a menace to its neighbors. Said Bush: "We are determined to knock out Saddam Hussein's nuclear-bomb potential. We will also destroy his chemical-weapons facilities...
...risky strategy. For example, the Iraqi dictator might have been able to save many of his planes by hiding them in hardened underground bunkers; the U.S. has been bombing those bunkers, but is uncertain how many of the planes inside them it has been able to destroy. According to a White House official, it hardly matters, "because now they can't take off. We've cratered almost all the runways." Later assessments, though, were that a significant part of the Iraqi air force had escaped to bases in the north of the country, from which they could still rise...
...Israel is unlikely to hit first, judging that the political fallout would outweigh the military benefits. If the U.S. detects that the Iraqis are fueling and preparing missiles aimed at Israel, a process that takes five to seven hours, it will probably try to destroy the launchers. But if Jerusalem detects signs of an Iraqi strike, Shamir may be impossible to restrain...
...personalities but articulate ordinary people: campus activists, Vietnam veterans, former hippies, union leaders, teachers, parents. Many of the clips have a grass-roots freshness (a dropout cheerfully concludes an impromptu lecture on the evils of the work ethic by saying, "So we struggle, in our own humble way, to destroy the United States"). And if there are some curious historical lapses (the show recounts the collapse of Lyndon Johnson's presidency without once mentioning Eugene McCarthy), the series makes a respectable stab at fulfilling the promise of its title. The decade does make a little more sense...