University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 18, 1991
Gulf war: Reactions
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Senators' views differ about war
Kassebaum: attack was a political move
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sen. Nancy Kasebaum, R-Kan., expressed doubts yesterday that Iraqi missile attacks on Israel would rupture the U.S.Arab alliance opposing Saddam Hussein.
"It ups the ante, but I think the timing of it really doesn't affect the alliance," Kassebaum said late yesterday.
She said it would have been much more serious had the missile strikes come before the United States and its allies in Iraq with air attacks on Wednesday.
“This was not a military effort so much on Saddam Hussein’s part as a political one,” Kassebaum said. “He had to save his own stature to a terrorist threatened that any strike against him would be a strike against Israel.”
She pointed out that initial reports indicated only a few casualties in Israel from the attacks.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. on blogs on CBS News, said the Iraqi surface-to-surface missile attacks "would open up, depending on what the response is from the Israeli government, a can of worms."
The concern, as Dole has said in the past, is that Israeli retaliation could strain or pull apart the U.S. and Israel. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria.
drawing Israel into the Persian Gulf conflict, Dole said earlier this week, is that Syria might drop out of the international alliance with the United States.
Before the attacks on Israel, Kansas lawmakers cautioned against a feeling of euphoria over early military successes against Iraq and warned that more battles could lie ahead.
One of the biggest dangers of
"It would be a mistake to think that it's over." Kassebaum said. "But we all hope that it will be what it seems: well coordinated international effort."
Dole 'said that it was almost unreal, unbelievable that U.S. and allied air forces sustained such light casualties in the first wave of attacks on Iraq. One U.S. and two allied planes were lost, according to initial reports.
"The bottom line is that casualties were kept at a bare minimum and our operation was very successful in nearly every instance." Dole said.
But Dole hinted that tougher and more bloody fighting could remain aba
"Let's not get carried away. There are going to be ups and downs," Dole said. He said the president didn't want anybody to have a feeling of euphoria or expectations that the war had ended with the first air strikes.
Dole said he did not know what the next step was in the allied battle plan or when U.S. ground forces would be
Senate praises Bush troops for dedication
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate passed a resolution by a 98-0 vote last night praising President Bush and U.S. troops for their endeavors in the Persian Gulf.
The Associated Press
"The Congress commends and supports the efforts and the leadership of the president as compen- sions to the Persian Gulf hostilities" it said.
"The Congress unequivocally supports the men and women of our armed forces who are carrying out their missions with professional excellence, dedicated patriotism, and exemplary bravery."
Although the resolution was just symbolic, lawmakers said it would send a message to Saddam Hussein.
At the White House, press secretary Marlin Fitwater said the White House appreciated the resolution.
"It is important for our forces to know that the Congress and the American people are behind them," he said.
"When Americans go to war, we go together," said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. R-Kan. He message of this resolution."
In praising the president only in
his role as commander in chief, the resolution was a compromise reached only after hours of wran-
gement. Democrats and Republicans.
House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, initially drafted a resolution and women but steered clear of endorsing Bush's policies.
Republican leaders countered with a version specifically praising the president for his leadership in the crisis, ranking Democrat Hillary. Bush should have delayed the election to win driven sanctions more time in work.
House GOP leader Bob Michel of Illinois called the Democratic version mealy-mouthed and told Democrats he hoped that lawmacking be called back into town to talk on something of substance.
ordered to attack Iraqis in Kuwait. The Army's 1st Infantry Division, which is based at Fort Riley, is deployed in Saudi Arabia.
That brought charges from Democrats, eager to on record supporting the apparently successful operation, that Republicans were mostly concerned with needing Democrats who voted against Bush last weekend when he asked for war-making powers.
"One thing Saddam Hussein can
do is . . . to surrender today," Dole said. "That would be one way to end it all."
But, Dole added that it probably wouldn't happen.
the world bodv. said late yesterday
UNITED NATIONS — Kuwait's U.N. ambassador said the missile attacks on Israel could threaten the carefully crafted, U.S.-organized coalition against Iraq.
Missile attacks threaten coalition
The Associated Press
U. S. and diplomats have expressed concern that if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein drew Israel into a Mideast war, the coalition might be defeated, and would see Israel, not Iraq, as their main enemy.
Israeli Mission representative Yuval Rotem said it was "clear that Israel had taken a huge risk upon herself by refraining from a pre-emptive
"Surely, it might cause a problem, but I hope that the United States will take care of that and control the Israeli reaction." Mohammad A. Abulhasan, Kuwait's permanent representative to
strike. It is a big risk that no other country, or severity of the situation, would have undertaken.
The Anti-Defamation League of Bain 'B' Irish
the missile袭击 a savage, unprovoked
attack
Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the league, said, "This confirms our worst fears. Saddam Hussein was playing 'possum.'"
Protests bring out differing emotions
Police broke a human chain around the federal building by swinging bats at protesters' bands as chants were heard. "We want to go to work today," echoed in the plaza.
In San Francisco, riotous demonstrations escalated into rock throwing and shouting obscenities. Police arrested about 750 people, mostly at an apartment complex in Pacific Stock Exchange, where thousands tried to block Pine Street.
A few of the demonstrators were backing the military.
Demonstrators blocked federal buildings and rural bridges yesterday as antiwar protest turned into civil disobedience in many parts of the country. Hundreds were arrested, some in confrontations with supporters of the war.
"We're not supporting war, we're supporting troops," said Tim Farrelli, 17, a Petaluma High School student. "We don't want them to come home and be spit on like they were in Vietnam."
In Washington, 14 people were arrested near the White House after two protesters were clubbed by U.S. police and others threw rocks and bottles.
The Associated Press
Violent protests
About 1,100 anti-war protesters tied up a afternoon rush hour with a two-passenger bus.
In some cities, passbys by taunted protesters with chants of "Move to Iraq." In Georgia, legislators angrily told the state an antwar speech in the statehouse.
Rep. Vinson Wall spat out a crude remark as he and others left the floor. Rep. Newt Hudson, one of those who insisted that the speaker "I just don't think it's appropriate."
Legislators streamed off the floor of the Georgia House in droves when Rep. Cynthia McKinney began a speech attacking the U.S. bombing
In Boston, some of the 600 demonstrators at the John F. Kennedy building tried to block the entrance. Eighty-four were arrested. Twenty-nine were arrested for the same reason in St. Cloud, Minn.
Civil disobedience
A passing motorist yelled, "Move to Iraq." "Get out of America," said another, making an obcene gesture.
"One, two, three, four, we don't want your bloody war," protesters chanted. "Five, six, seven, eight, we will not cooperate."
But police Capt. Leonard Smallwood in St. Cloud described demonstrators as very peaceful, very nonviolent, very cooperative.
In Hartford, Conn., 120 people blocking entrances to the federal building were taunted by a motorist who attacked Saddam Hussein to Hitler.
At a demonstration at the federal building in Portland, Maine, Kari Vantine, a 21-year-old art student, led about 100 protesters in a chant and held up a symbol body bag, a white sack splattered with red paint
Hall to the Liberty Bell and back. They promised an all-night vigil and demonstrations every day until the end of war.
"You're the same people who would have let Hitler go. You'd all be speaking German now," the man in a pickup truck shouted.
Holding up a white body bag, the Rev. Robert Moore of Princeton, N.J., told a crowd of 100 at the Statehouse steps in Trenton: "This is what this war means. It means people coming home in body bags."
Several times, police had to separate the demonstrators and about 200 shouting counter-demonstrators, who burned a few small Italian flags.
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