• wet_squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And let‘s not forget that the claim, that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, was a lie.

    And lets not forget that world leaders and the “free world” were emotionally manipulated by a “nurse”:

    The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old girl who was publicly identified at the time by her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized and was cited numerous times by U.S. senators and President George H. W. Bush in their rationale to support Kuwait in the Gulf War.

    In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah’s last name was Al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيرة الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign, which was run by the American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti Government. Following this, al-Sabah’s testimony has come to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda.

    In her testimony, Nayirah claimed that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, remove the incubators and leave the babies to die. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony)

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      1 year ago

      And lets not forget that world leaders and the “free world” were emotionally manipulated by a “nurse”

      Interesting! This is the first time I hear of her. In your opinion, how much of an effect did her testimony have on the 2003 invasion of Iraq?