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made an unbelievable move all the way across into the Tigris and Euphrates
valley, and proceeded in blocking this avenue of egress out, which was the only
avenue of egress left because we continued to make sure that the bridges stayed
down. So there was no way out once the 24th was in this area, and the 101st
continued to operate in here.   The French, having succeeded in achieving all
their objectives, then set up a flanking position, a flank guard position here, to
make sure there were no forces that could come in and get us from the flank.
   By this time we had destroyed, or rendered completely ineffective, over 21
Iraqi divisions. (Map G)
   Of course, that brings us to today.    Where we are today, is we now have a
solid wall across the north of the 18th Airborne Corps consisting of the units
shown right here, attacking straight to the east.  We have a solid wall here,
again of the VII Corps also attacking straight to the east.  The forces that they
are fighting right now are the forces of the Republican Guard.
   Again, today we had a very significant day. The Arab forces coming from
both the west and the east closed in and moved into Kuwait City where they are
now in the process of securing Kuwait City entirely and ensuring that it's
absolutely secure.  The 1st Marine Division continues to hold Kuwait Interna-
tional Airport.  The 2d Marine Division continues to be in a pOSition where it
blocks any egress out of the city of Kuwait, so no one can leave.    To date, we
have destroyed over 29--destroyed or rendered inoperable--I don't like to say
destroyed because that gives you visions of absolutely killing everyone, and
that's not what we're doing.  But we have rendered completely ineffective over
29 Iraqi divisions. The gates are closed.  There is no way out of here; there is
no way out of here; and the enemy is fighting us in this location right here.
   We continue, of course, overwhelming air power. The air has done a terrific
job from the start to finish in supporting the ground forces, and we also have
had great support from the Navy--both in the form of naval gunfire and in
support of carrier air.
   That's the situation at the present time. (Chart 1)
   Peace is not without a cost.  These have been the US casualties to date. As
you can see, these were the casualties we had in the air war; then of course, we
had the terrible misfortune of the Scud attack the other night which, again,
because the weapon malfunctioned, it caused death, unfortunately, rather than
in a proper function.  Then, of course, these are the casualties in the ground
war, the total being shown here. (Chart 2)
   I would just like to comment briefly about the casualty chart.    The loss of
one human life is intolerable to any of us who are in the military.  But I would
tell you that the casualties of that order of magnitude considering the job that's
been done and the number of forces that were involved is almost miraculous, as
far as the light number of casualties.  It will never be miraculous to the families
of those people, but it is miraculous.
   This is what's happened to date with the Iraqis.  They started out with over
4,000 tanks.   As of today, we have over 3,000 confirmed destroyed-and I do
mean destroyed or captured.    As a matter of fact, that number is low because
you can add another 700 to that as a result of the battle that's going on right