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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (40882)	8/30/2002 12:11:14 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

well... Okay, I've heard of The Matrix, read the reviews, not my type of entertainment, thankyewverymuch. As near as I can tell, the incubator story was of whole cloth. Never seen anything that refutes it. Same goes for Nayirah, the 'unknown' 15 year old Kuwaiti girl who testified before a Congressional caucus: >>Sobbing, she described what she had seen with her own eyes in a hospital in Kuwait City. Her written testimony was passed out in a media kit prepared by Citizens for a Free Kuwait. "I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," Nayirah said. "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."<< Her father was actually a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family, Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., who was listening in the hearing room during her testimony. She'd been coached to say that by Hill & Knowlton's vice-president Lauri Fitz-Pegado, which even the Kuwaitis' own investigators later confirmed was false testimony. More loopholism here; lying to a Congressional CAUCUS is not a crime. It even fooled Amnesty International, who later put out a retraction. >>The overwhelming technological superiority of the U.S. forces won a decisive victory in the brief and brutal war known as Desert Storm. Afterwards, some in the media quietly admitted that they'd been manipulated to produce sanitized coverage which almost entirely ignored the war's human costs -- today estimated at over 100,000 civilian deaths. The American public's single most lasting memory of the war will probably be the ridiculously successful video stunts supplied by the Pentagon showing robot "smart bombs" striking only their intended military targets, without much "collateral" (civilian) damage. "Although influential media such as The New York Times and Wall Street Journal kept promoting the illusion of the `clean war,' a different picture began to emerge after the U.S. stopped carpet-bombing Iraq," note Lee and Solomon. "The pattern underscored what Napoleon meant when he said that it wasn't necessary to completely suppress the news; it was sufficient to delay the news until it no longer mattered."<< You might want to read John MacArthur, author of The Second Front, he wrote a pretty good book about the manipulation of the news media during the Gulf War.