This testimony from a young girl claiming that Iraqi soldiers had thrown Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and left them to die was one of the key factors leading to U.S. entry into the first Gulf War. The testimony was later discovered to be completely fabricated and paid for by public relations firms and the girl was the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. The first Iraq war was not the first and not the last American war that was entered into largely under false pretenses. Despite countless examples of Americans being lied into wars, the U.S. media are still more than happy to accept any claims they hear from government officials as gospel, meanwhile those who question the mainstream assertions, such as that Assad gassed his own people in Syria, Trump colluded with Putin to hack the U.S. election or Iran is the greatest state sponsor of terror in the world, are dismissed as conspiracy theorists.
This is awesome video, do you happen to have the source that showed that this was totally fabricated? That would be nice to have on record.
This whole episode is actually pretty widely recognized now to have been a hoax, even by mainstream pro-war people.
Here’s an NYT article that came out shortly after the war when it was discovered that the girl was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/06/opinion/remember-nayirah-witness-for-kuwait.html
There was an ABC investigative report in March of 1991 that refuted the idea that Iraqi soldiers were responsible for stealing incubators from hospitals. Also, Amnesty International, which had originally ran with the story, issued a correction saying there was no evidence behind the accusations.
Here’s a good story from antiwar.com as well on the whole saga.
https://www.antiwar.com/orig/cohen1.html
Of all of the military conflicts/wars that the USG has participated in since the Vietnam War, this first Iraq war was a crucial pivot point. The world had just witness the collapse of the Berlin Wall as well as the fall of the Soviet system. Yet instead of cashing on on the peace dividend with the end of the Cold War, the USG headed by George Bush Senior make the horrible mistake of taking the US down the Middle East Interventionist path of waste, death and destruction. Had the USG not taken the country down this path, we as a nation and as individuals would be wealthier and safer. The so called War on Terror would not exists as there would be no reason to attack America. 911 would not have happened, and Arab world would have sorted itself out. The USG’s involvement in the internal affairs of Arab nations is akin to the USG entering World War I. Now there is constant turmoil in the Middle East with the US military highly involved, whether in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and the ever brewing tensions with Iran.