Episode 288 GEORGE H.W. Bush : The Gulf War (part 3)

George H.W. Bush 1991 The Gulf War

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Day 2 of the Gulf War starts out with Iraq having been decimated by the Coalition air campaign. The military action began at night and exploited all the Iraqi regimes known military weaknesses. The Iraqi Air Force was basically grounded at night and the Army was unable to counter in any way. It was in the first 24 hours a rather lopsided affair.
However, Saddam Hussein still had a few cards to play and in the middle of the night on day 2 he played one of his strongest ones. He launched bombs with some limited chemical weapons on them into Tel Aviv in an a attempt to draw Israel into the war and to divide up the United Nations coalition. This is that story in our third episode looking back at the first Gulf War.

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1. Episode 288 GEORGE H.W. Bush : The Gulf War (part 3) (00:00:00)

2. Gulf War tape 100 NBC News - New Zealand Television coverage Gulf War (00:00:26)

3. Intro Music (00:02:07)

4. Gulf War tape 103 NBC News - New Zealand Television coverage of the Gulf War (00:02:32)

5. Host Randal Wallace introduces you to the next few days and the events that occured that included an attack on Israel by Iraq (00:07:43)

6. Gulf War tape 104 New Zealand Television coverage (00:08:30)

7. host Randal Wallace introduces the situation that unfolded in Israel (00:13:17)

8. Brief interview with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (00:13:29)

9. Gulf War tape 114 bombing of Israel ABC News coverage - New Zealand Television January 18, 1991 (00:14:56)

10. Gulf War tape 115 bombing of Israel NBC News coverage - New Zealand Television January 18, 1991 (00:24:03)

11. Gulf War tape 116 bombing of Israel NBC News coverage - New Zealand January 18, 1991 (00:30:39)

12. Gulf War tape 117 bombing of Israel NBC News coverage - New Zealand January 18, 1991 (00:37:18)

13. Gulf War tape 118 Bombing of Israel ABC News coverage - New Zealand Television January 18, 1991 (00:43:22)

14. ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings - January 19, 1991 (00:53:14)

15. Closing theme (01:08:58)