War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda

[Octafish]

6. Like the time ''the USA'' wanted to attack Iraq?

The War Party pulled out all the stops to get their war on to build public support. For instance...

"I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," Nayirah said. "While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where ... babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die."



Turned out the "15-year old hospital volunteer" Nayirah really was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington when she testified to Congress.

"If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it." -- Kuwait Ambassador

That was 1990. Here's the story:

http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html

I don't recall Brian Williams bringing any of that up in 2002 when helping lead the run-up to Iraq War II.