I make it a practice to never make up my mind about a story until I hear both sides. The real story you are telling me is not that the PR firm lied, but that the Bush administration hired the PR firm to lie in order to sway Congress into voting to go to war. If you believe that, fine. It seems to be well received on the Left, to the extent that even if it were not true, it should be true, and that's good enough.
I just spent some time googling around, and conclude that
1) the PR firm says the girl was telling the truth;
2) at the time, Amnesty International interviewed a doctor whom they said confirmed the story;
3) after the war was over, the doctor changed his story;
4) nobody else has been located to confirm the story.
Nobody seems to have interviewed the girl again, and I have no idea how hard anybody tried to confirm the story among others working at the same hospital in Kuwait.
In the meantime, here is a list of human rights abuses in Iraq from, yep, Amnesty International. Not killing babies, just torture, disappearing people, the usual.
amnesty-volunteer.org
I will agree with you in principle that urban legends are different from propaganda. |
