How The US Government And A PR Firm Made Fake News To Promote War In Iraq
By John Vibes
ActivistPost.com
DECEMBER 18, 2015
At the onset of Operation Desert Storm, in 1990, a public relations firm by the name of Hill and Knowlton spent millions of dollars on the government’s behalf, constructing news pieces that would sell the war to the American public. One of the most moving pranks to come from this push to war was the testimony of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name of Nayirah.
In a videotaped testimony that was later distributed to the media, she claimed that Iraqi soldiers killed babies in incubators at a hospital.
In her testimony she said,
I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital, 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..
Sounds horrible, huh? Well, luckily it never happened, this was a fabricated event designed to dehumanize the Iraqi people in the eyes of the American public. The whole thing was exposed when the journalists discovered that the witness, Nayirah, was actually the daughter of a US ambassador who was being coaxed by military psychological operations specialists.
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