Why persist in making your case about my credibility
No, SR, it's not about your credibility, it's about credulousness, not just yours, but that of a lot of people.
The US ambassador to Kuwait said that the investigators never interviewed several eyewitnesses. Three of the eyewitnesses did not want to be named, but one woman gave her name. As far as I can tell, nobody followed up on it after that.
They had their story -- the 15-year-old daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US testified without being identified, and therefore she was a liar and the whole story was made up. It's part and parcel of the "hidden agenda" mentality. Everything the government and mainstream media tells you is a lie. You can only trust alternative media and minority political parties.
Even Amnesty International would not go that far -- they said that they interviewed many people who said it happened but they had no hard evidence. For example, they looked at the number of babies which were buried during the time period, and the number did not seem to be much higher than during other time periods. Which clearly refutes the claim that hundreds of babies were killed, but then, in a country the size of Kuwait, it's unlikely that there were hundreds of babies in incubators that could not survive outside an incubator.
I used to work in the labor and delivery section of a woman's hospital. Babies get put into incubators as a preventative measure. That doesn't mean that they will automatically die outside an incubator. So the burial figures don't disprove the eyewitness account by the head nurse who said that she saw eight babies taken off incubators. The reporter got her name, her position, her hospital, and the number of babies, a reasonable number. What more does it take for you to believe her? Should they exhume the babies? |
