Lyrics
"Thus with great violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown downā¦"
'We're like the bullies of the world right now, you know thatā¦?'
"And the voice of the harpers shall be heard no more at all in theeā¦"
'ā¦throwing the pistol at the sheep herder's feetā¦'
"And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in theeā¦"
'Pick it upā¦'
This is CBS
This is PBS
This is ABC
This is the National Broadcasting Company
Good evening, the United States of America is at warā¦
'Pick up the gunā¦'
To begin with the army occupying Kuwait would hardly be touchedā¦ instead targets all over Iraq would be obliteratedā¦
Imagine Iraq like a human bodyā¦ what happŠµns if you sever their spinal cord? They can't functionā¦ right?
Tomahawk cruise missilesā¦ F-14 Tomcatsā¦ devastating JP 233 bombsā¦ target of the most intense aerial bombardment the world has ever known
American B52s flying high above the reach of Iraqi fireā¦
Casualties on the Iraqi side will be extremely highā¦
Saddam Hussein must be seen to be the loserā¦
This was tremendous, Baghdad was lit up like a Christmas treeā¦
1300 sorties so farā¦
The first air strikes were probing, testing the efficiency of Baghdad's defences. On Friday, the tactics changed to heavy saturation bombingā¦
The first 24 hours consisted of more attacks than the entire number of targets in the years 1942 and 1943 during the combined bomber offensive in Europeā¦
6 minutes after the stealth bombers left, the cruise missiles arrived. Others dropped carbon filament to short the electrical grid systemā¦
American, British and Saudi bombers and fighters from air bases and carriers joined in a single concerted attackā¦
There's another wave of bombing just starting, this is the first time anybody's seen a war like thisā¦
Britain still hasn't formerly declared war on Iraq, apparently the Foreign Office nowadays considers it a bit 'old-fashioned'ā¦
Mr. Ambassador, you have virtually the entire world community ranged against youā¦
It is an American gameā¦
At this point I'm not looking through my goggles, I'm looking at a TV screen. I gave the code word 'Git Some!'ā¦
Mr. Ambassador we bid you good morningā¦ ('Git Some!')
AWACS planes packed with computer equipment ('Git Some!')
helped control the battleā¦ ('Git Some!')
I select my gunā¦ ('Git Some!')
Iraqi soldiers ran through the crosshairsā¦
Vietnam was the ghost we carried with usā¦ ('Git Some!')
Gradually they are being starved quite apart from the aerial bombardmentā¦
Daybreak saw no let up. New targets were sought out. Some of those not destroyed overnight returned to-
Huge concussions all over the place with big bombs goin' offā¦
Allied aircraft have now flown a total of 4000 sortiesā¦
Many people are dying at the moment sir Mr. Ambassadorā¦
....67 hit records have been banned by the BBC for reasons of sensitivity
Phil Collins 'In the Air Tonight', 'Boom Bang a Bang' by Lulu, and Cat Stevens' 'I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun',
yet the record most requested by our boys in the Gulf is Barry McGuire's 'The Eve of Destruction'
What we cannot be proud of Mr. Speaker
is the unshaven, shaggy haired, drug culture, poor excuses for Americans
wearing their tiny, round, wire-rimmed glasses, a protester's symbol of the blame America first crowd,
out in front of the White House, burning the American flagā¦
But the main development in the war is tonight's Scud missile attack on Israelā¦
Saddam Hussein has now twice sent extremely dangerous weapons into the middle of a built up areaā¦ (Scud- scud-)
The most intense air attacks since the Second World Warā¦ (Scud- scud-)
has now twiceā¦ (Scud- scud-)
The system dispenses hundreds of tiny bombletsā¦ (Scud- scud-)
has now twiceā¦ (Scud- scud-)
There's been over 8000 sorties (Scud- scud-)
has now twiceā¦ (Scud- scud-)
Attacks on Baghdad, Tikrit, Samawah, Nasiriya and Basraā¦ (Scud- scud-)
The electricity's gone off everywhere in the whole city, there's no water, no telephones, no communications for anybodyā¦ (Scud- scud-)
Military briefings have emphasised the threat still posed by Iraq's Scud missilesā¦ (Scud- scud-)
2000 sorties a dayā¦ (Scud- scud-)
Scud targetsā¦
Scud launchersā¦
Scud launching sitesā¦
Scud missile attacksā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud rocketā¦
the Scudā¦
Scud sitesā¦
Scudā¦
Scudā¦
Scudā¦
Scud sitesā¦
Scud rocketsā¦
no-one has yet been killed in these Scud missile attacks, they're extremely inaccurateā¦
we imagine these are Scudsā¦
search for Scudsā¦
three Scudsā¦
Scud missile launcherā¦
Scud targetsā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
they've now flown 10,000 sortiesā¦
the spokesmen here described the impact of the Scud as feebleā¦
they're extremely frighteningā¦
12,000 allied sortiesā¦
President Saddam Hussein's Scud rocketsā¦
exert a powerful grip on the public imaginationā¦
he acknowledged Scuds are a weapon of terrorā¦
ā¦Saying that Scuds are a danger to your nation is like saying that lightning is a danger to your nation.
'We're like the bullies of the world right now, you know thatā¦?'
"And the voice of the harpers shall be heard no more at all in theeā¦"
'ā¦throwing the pistol at the sheep herder's feetā¦'
"And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in theeā¦"
'Pick it upā¦'
This is CBS
This is PBS
This is ABC
This is the National Broadcasting Company
Good evening, the United States of America is at warā¦
'Pick up the gunā¦'
To begin with the army occupying Kuwait would hardly be touchedā¦ instead targets all over Iraq would be obliteratedā¦
Imagine Iraq like a human bodyā¦ what happŠµns if you sever their spinal cord? They can't functionā¦ right?
Tomahawk cruise missilesā¦ F-14 Tomcatsā¦ devastating JP 233 bombsā¦ target of the most intense aerial bombardment the world has ever known
American B52s flying high above the reach of Iraqi fireā¦
Casualties on the Iraqi side will be extremely highā¦
Saddam Hussein must be seen to be the loserā¦
This was tremendous, Baghdad was lit up like a Christmas treeā¦
1300 sorties so farā¦
The first air strikes were probing, testing the efficiency of Baghdad's defences. On Friday, the tactics changed to heavy saturation bombingā¦
The first 24 hours consisted of more attacks than the entire number of targets in the years 1942 and 1943 during the combined bomber offensive in Europeā¦
6 minutes after the stealth bombers left, the cruise missiles arrived. Others dropped carbon filament to short the electrical grid systemā¦
American, British and Saudi bombers and fighters from air bases and carriers joined in a single concerted attackā¦
There's another wave of bombing just starting, this is the first time anybody's seen a war like thisā¦
Britain still hasn't formerly declared war on Iraq, apparently the Foreign Office nowadays considers it a bit 'old-fashioned'ā¦
Mr. Ambassador, you have virtually the entire world community ranged against youā¦
It is an American gameā¦
At this point I'm not looking through my goggles, I'm looking at a TV screen. I gave the code word 'Git Some!'ā¦
Mr. Ambassador we bid you good morningā¦ ('Git Some!')
AWACS planes packed with computer equipment ('Git Some!')
helped control the battleā¦ ('Git Some!')
I select my gunā¦ ('Git Some!')
Iraqi soldiers ran through the crosshairsā¦
Vietnam was the ghost we carried with usā¦ ('Git Some!')
Gradually they are being starved quite apart from the aerial bombardmentā¦
Daybreak saw no let up. New targets were sought out. Some of those not destroyed overnight returned to-
Huge concussions all over the place with big bombs goin' offā¦
Allied aircraft have now flown a total of 4000 sortiesā¦
Many people are dying at the moment sir Mr. Ambassadorā¦
....67 hit records have been banned by the BBC for reasons of sensitivity
Phil Collins 'In the Air Tonight', 'Boom Bang a Bang' by Lulu, and Cat Stevens' 'I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun',
yet the record most requested by our boys in the Gulf is Barry McGuire's 'The Eve of Destruction'
What we cannot be proud of Mr. Speaker
is the unshaven, shaggy haired, drug culture, poor excuses for Americans
wearing their tiny, round, wire-rimmed glasses, a protester's symbol of the blame America first crowd,
out in front of the White House, burning the American flagā¦
But the main development in the war is tonight's Scud missile attack on Israelā¦
Saddam Hussein has now twice sent extremely dangerous weapons into the middle of a built up areaā¦ (Scud- scud-)
The most intense air attacks since the Second World Warā¦ (Scud- scud-)
has now twiceā¦ (Scud- scud-)
The system dispenses hundreds of tiny bombletsā¦ (Scud- scud-)
has now twiceā¦ (Scud- scud-)
There's been over 8000 sorties (Scud- scud-)
has now twiceā¦ (Scud- scud-)
Attacks on Baghdad, Tikrit, Samawah, Nasiriya and Basraā¦ (Scud- scud-)
The electricity's gone off everywhere in the whole city, there's no water, no telephones, no communications for anybodyā¦ (Scud- scud-)
Military briefings have emphasised the threat still posed by Iraq's Scud missilesā¦ (Scud- scud-)
2000 sorties a dayā¦ (Scud- scud-)
Scud targetsā¦
Scud launchersā¦
Scud launching sitesā¦
Scud missile attacksā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud rocketā¦
the Scudā¦
Scud sitesā¦
Scudā¦
Scudā¦
Scudā¦
Scud sitesā¦
Scud rocketsā¦
no-one has yet been killed in these Scud missile attacks, they're extremely inaccurateā¦
we imagine these are Scudsā¦
search for Scudsā¦
three Scudsā¦
Scud missile launcherā¦
Scud targetsā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
Scud missilesā¦
they've now flown 10,000 sortiesā¦
the spokesmen here described the impact of the Scud as feebleā¦
they're extremely frighteningā¦
12,000 allied sortiesā¦
President Saddam Hussein's Scud rocketsā¦
exert a powerful grip on the public imaginationā¦
he acknowledged Scuds are a weapon of terrorā¦
ā¦Saying that Scuds are a danger to your nation is like saying that lightning is a danger to your nation.