blumoonrisen said:
I never suggested anything of the sort.
Cry in denial and talk shite as much as you like, the fact remains the shooting of the cop was faked and blood was planted on the floor afterwards. The evidence is there for all too see, but many are too ignorant to accept it.
I refuse to watch real life snuff movies, so I am not commenting on this being a hoax or not.
War hungry nations will use any excuse to "go to war". "Weapons of mass destruction" anybody.
I won't post the full article (it's pretty long) just the "smoking gun" bit. I would recommend reading it if you want to understand how the whole manipulation thing works. People with power killing those who have none.
It discusses how PR and lobbying are used to garner support for wars and how much money is thrown at the effort to engage in these senseless wars. In this instance the war mongers used "
Iraqi soldiers taking incubators from a Kuwait hospital and leaving 312 babies on the floor to die".
Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ testified before the non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus and pretended to be a nurse from the Kuwaiti hospital who had witnessed the faked incubator incident.
Nayirah was later found to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S.
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"312 babies on the floor to die".
In fact, the most emotionally moving testimony on October 10 came from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name of Nayirah. According to the Caucus, Nayirah's full name was being kept confidential to prevent Iraqi reprisals against her family in occupied Kuwait. 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."
Three months passed between Nayirah's testimony and the start of the war. During those months,
the story of babies torn from their incubators was repeated over and over again. President Bush told the story. It was recited as fact in Congressional testimony, on TV and radio talk shows, and at the UN Security Council. "Of all the accusations made against the dictator," MacArthur observed, "none had more impact on American public opinion than the one about Iraqi soldiers removing 312 babies from their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold hospital floors of Kuwait City."
At the Human Rights Caucus, however,
Hill & Knowlton and Congressman Lantos had failed to reveal that Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony. The Caucus also failed to reveal that H&K vice-president Lauri Fitz-Pegado had coached Nayirah in what even the Kuwaitis' own investigators later confirmed was false testimony.
If Nayirah's outrageous lie had been exposed at the time it was told, it might have at least caused some in Congress and the news media to soberly reevaluate the extent to which they were being skillfully manipulated to support military action. Public opinion was deeply divided on Bush's Gulf policy. As late as December 1990, a New York Times/CBS News poll indicated that 48 percent of the American people wanted Bush to wait before taking any action if Iraq failed to withdraw from Kuwait by Bush's January 15 deadline. On January 12, the US Senate voted by a narrow, five-vote margin to support the Bush administration in a declaration of war. Given the narrowness of the vote, the babies-thrown-from-incubators story may have turned the tide in Bush's favor.
Following the war,
human rights investigators attempted to confirm Nayirah's story and could find no witnesses or other evidence to support it. Amnesty International, which had fallen for the story, was forced to issue an embarrassing retraction. Nayirah herself was unavailable for comment. "This is the first allegation I've had that she was the ambassador's daughter," said Human Rights Caucus co-chair John Porter. "Yes, I think people ... were entitled to know the source of her testimony." When journalists for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation asked Nasir al-Sabah for permission to question Nayirah about her story, the ambassador angrily refused.
I'm not saying the video is a hoax before somebody
asks me this.