European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March-2, 1991the stars and stripes Page 13 commentary . Newspapers comment on cease fire a a Ltd a a a. A a a a. A. A a a a a. .1, 1 Law it i a Here is a sampling of editorials from newspapers around the country on thursday there is one Clear conclusion already evident emerging from the persian Gulf this has been a masterful performance by George Herbert Walker Bush. A Buffalo . News the coalition led by the United states has a Chance to liberate Iraq As Well As Kuwait from Saddam Hussein s tyranny. A commercial Appeal Memphis Tenn. With the same assertiveness with which he launched operation desert storm president Bush on wednesday de _ cleared Victory and gave Iraq a Chance to quit the Field Short of total surrender. With his Quick stroke Bush made a bold Start toward securing the peace a but what comes now will require at least As much diplomatic skill As the military skill demonstrated on the Battlefield. A Albuquerque . Journal ten places where he Saddam Hussein might go 1 Algeria 2 Elba. _. _ 3 Haiti 4 Cuba 5 Palmyra 6 Moscow. 7 jordan8 Texas department of corrections 9 Yemen. 10 Albania the Dallas morning news whether the War truly ends is in the hands of the iraqis. But for All practical purposes the Back of Saddam Hussein a military machine the worlds fourth a largest a has been broken. Saddam Hussein a personal Fate is now in the hands of the people he has misrule for a dozen years. They have not been consulted about any of the measures that brought their country to its present ruin. If there is any Justice in the world their fury will turn on the despot who has led them to this tragic Point in their history. A a -. A the Cincinnati enquirer Quot an Quot evil tyrant has gotten a necessary dose of Justice. The great wrong of August has been Righte Xiy the men and women of february. A los Angeles times politically George Bush sits on top of the world the United states today is deemed the globes Only True military superpower. The Gamble Bush took single. Hand edly changing the character of the. Middle East adventure from a punishing but passive defensive choke hold on Iraq a to an offensive Campaign and then compelling Congress to endorse it seems to. Have paid off for the Republican president. If the next election were tomorrow. Bush would win in a Breeze. A Lincoln neb journal although he did not know it then sad a dam Hussein began a Long surrender the Day after his troops invaded Kuwait. No single person can take credit for Forcina Iraq to relinquish its Conquest. But Bush comes close. A Star Tribune of Minneapolis what this mighty United nations blessed collection inf armies has done is to establish the precedent that the world Community can and will Stop an aggressor dead in his tracks and wrest his spoils of War away from him. It is Gratifying to hear Bush declare we Are expending so much thought and planning on postwar priorities. Peacemaking will require every bit As much courage and skill and brains As we showed in this War. A a a a a a a a a Quot a a a the Atlanta Constitution there a a distinction to keep in mind a Saddam Hussein is in Power but he no longer is powerful. A the Des Moines Iowa Register the military Mission a destroying Hussein a military capability a has been accomplished. Saddam has been de fanged. Chances Are that the iraqi people will recognize who has brought their nation such devastation. But until Hussein is deposed or eliminated the coalition must keep some of the economic sanctions in place and of course the arms embargo. Food and medical supplies should be allowed through there has by in enough suffering. A a a a new Day new York if iraqi forces had been More Formida blk. If Saddam had tried to use his chemical weapons if the fragile coalition had _ broken apart if the israelis had been sucked into retaliating today s euphoria a might have been a quite different emotion. But desert storm has been a resounding Triumph costly in dollars but miraculously cheap in american lives. That s something to be grateful about. A the Honolulu advertiser few words Are More Welcome than that the fighting is ending and the dying will  haggling and the dying went on a through wednesday until the president once again one upped Saddam Bush just presumed a on pain of More pain iraqis acceptance of All his terms a de. Cleared the Triumph he had won in the Field stopped the War unilaterally and put  bargaining. It seems a master stroke. A Houston chronicle this is George Bush s finest hour. He said from the first that iraqis aggression would not stand. He created an International coalition pledged to make Iraq pull out and pay for its rape of Kuwait. A the Charlotte . Observer the United states has humiliated Saddam by making him suffer a total military defeat on the Battlefield by demanding that he personally and publicly surrender and forswear any claim to Kuwait and by exposing him As an evil figure for having ordered atrocities upon the kuwaiti people in the context of islamic morality. V a Seattle Post  the president deserves credit not Only for knowing when to Stop but for letting his commanders run the War. The result was a classic strategic Success with unbelievably Low Allied casualties. A daily Gazette of Schenectady . Took so much time Money and lives to destroy. A the Panta Griph of Bloomington i. The War is  is a time pm give proper credit to those who carried out their Mission with incredible courage and precision to bring about a very Quick end to the War. A mesabi daily news Virginia Minn. To be sure the world will continue a whatever Quot becomes of Secretary of state James Baker s Mission to make egg salad out of a broken Mesopotamia to be a disorderly place. But almost certainly other Saddam Hussein will think several times before strutting menacingly in their respective regions. A the Orange county Calif Register simply put the Quot Mother of Battles a has left Saddam a forces a soldering wreck and his supporters thoroughly humiliated. The Arab masses whatever their discontents cannot help knowing that fact. Saddam a defeat teaches a powerful lesson belligerence no longer pays in the Middle East. A los Angeles daily news an american and Allied Victory in the persian Gulf was relatively painless thanks to Superb planning by our top military commanders and equally laudable Battlefield behaviour by average . Soldiers sailors and aviators a lasting peace in the Region will be tar More difficult to achieve. A the Denver Post though praising the splendid Job done by the .-led forces or. Bush was careful to make a distinction Between gloating and stride. His words were the words of a Man who knows that the end of the War Marks the beginning of an equally daunting Challenge. A St. Louis Post dispatch a bully has been soundly thrashed. A Charleston . Daily mail a. A a. A a a a a a a a. A a America can be profoundly grateful that operation desert storm is Over and that the Victory was  out great loss of life on the Allied Side. A a a it is regrettable that the deaths of iraqis too could not have been held to a minimum. But that was not to be. Their fanatical Leader gave them no Choice but to fight on against impossible Odds. A the Milwaukee journal Iraq is isolated and alone its Economy and infrastructure destroyed. The world will wait to see How the iraqis Deal with one who has brought them to such a tragic end. _ a Nashville Tenn Banner the coalition faced More than 500,000 Well entrenched troops and drove them from their desert holes with less loss of life to the victors than this country loses _ in a Holiday weekend of traffic  As Long As wars Are written about this one will be the classic for great planning a a arid near perfect execution. A the chronicle Telegram of Sylria Ohio while sanctions against Iraq May be lifted when the War is Over an arms embargo must remain. Iraq must not be permitted to rebuild the War machine that what american can feel anything but Pride in the incredible achievements of americans armed forces and the Stead. Fastness of their commander in chief on this Day of Victory in the persian Gulf War they promised us a a no Quot Vietnam a and they were right. A it was the president who first called for sanctions who organized an International coalition prodded the United nations into support mobilized the greatest expeditionary Force since world War ii launched a devastating air War and finally ordered the tanks into Iraq. At every step there were people who. Said it could t he done. They were wrong. Whether All of this was right or necessary is a matter politicians and historians will be arguing Tor years. But this Day belongs to George Bush. _ a the Bismarck . Tribune