The WMD incubators : Bush Jr. copies Bush Sr.

Just accidentally came through this story about the last gulf war. The entire WMD shit is mere inheritence of Bush from his father.

In October, 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, identified only as Nayirah, appeared in Washington before the House of Representatives' Human Rights Caucus. She testified that Iraqi soldiers who had invaded Kuwait on August 2nd tore hundreds of babies from hospital incubators and killed them.



Television flashed her testimony around the world. It electrified opposition to Iraq's president, Saddam Hussein, who was now portrayed by U.S. president George Bush not only as "the Butcher of Baghdad" but -- so much for old friends -- "a tyrant worse than Hitler."



Bush quoted Nayirah at every opportunity. Six times in one month he referred to "312 premature babies at Kuwait City's maternity hospital who died after Iraqi soldiers stole their incubators and left the infants on the floor,"(1) and of "babies pulled from incubators and scattered like firewood across the floor." Bush used Nayirah's testimony to lambaste Senate Democrats still supporting "only" sanctions against Iraq -- the blockade of trade which alone would cause hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to die of hunger and disease -- but who waffled on endorsing the policy Bush wanted to implement: outright bombardment. Republicans and pro-war Democrats used Nayirah's tale to hammer their fellow politicians into line behind Bush's war in the Persian Gulf.(2)...........


Read more on Counterpunch.org

Links :

* Bush's Iraq Lies

* RW ONLINE:"Wagging the Dog":US/Kuwait Incubator Scam

* In war, some facts less factual

* UnitedStatesGovernment.net - How Bush Sr. Sold The Bombing Of Iraq

* When contemplating war, beware of babies in incubators | csmonitor ...