Thread by @zei_squirrel

in 1990 a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah testified in Congress that she saw Iraqi troops throwing babies out of incubators. Amnesty corroborated her story, and this was used to get the public to support war. Afterwards it turned out the entire thing was a lie concocted by a PR firm

Nayirah, who wasn't identified when the US political and media class used her testimony to manufacture consent for war, was later discovered to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador and to have received her talking points from a PR firm in DC. All this came out after the war

the role of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who both gave their seal of approval to the babies in incubators lie, should not be forgotten. They always, without fail, play the role of whitewashing CIA propaganda against Official Enemies that are being targeted

it gets even more depraved. After the war, when a reporter went to investigate in Kuwait, he discovered that some babies had actually been killed. Not due to Iraqi soldiers throwing them out of incubators, *but because of American bombing*. The US is the actual baby killer

some crucial background: the US gave permission to Saddam to invade Kuwait, only afterwards objecting because it was a convenient cover for stationing troops in Saudi Arabia and reaping profits for the military industrial complex. Meanwhile diplomatic solutions were being blocked

here's John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the US giving permission to Saddam to invade Kuwait. The only problem was that the US public wasn't so eager to support a war nominally in defense of a fascist dictatorship. Enter Nayirah, Amnesty, HRW and the babies in incubators hoax