a general nor is he as a soldier. other than that, he s a great military man. big and burly and confident. when he came in the briefing room, your chest swelled. it was american military might on parade. his presence was important. it was a huge actor on american support for the war. the war in the gulf is virtually over. tonight, what may be the final battle of the gulf war. headlines in newspapers screamed fight them, but pictures from southern kuwait told a different story. the iraqi army began to emerge from their holes in the desert to give up. we knocked out saddam hussein in 100 hours. it was a route. this is sand from the liberated beaches of kuwait. that was a massive success. it showed the world a huge lesson. that this kind of aggression would not stand. the problem was that they didn t go all the way to baghdad. but that would have been a