After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, a powerful PR and lobbying firm was hired by Kuwait's government to sway the American public and Congress towards military intervention. At the center of this campaign was the testimony of a young Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah who moved a decisive number of Congressmen to vote for war. She spoke of horrific atrocities: the mass murder of newborn babies, pulled from incubators by Iraqi soldiers throughout Kuwait. But this story was a lie. Lets dive into how this unbelievable manipulation campaign went down and why it's important for us today.
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Chapter List
0:00 Opening
1:49 We're Doomed
3:23 The Pitch
6:00 Speaking Into the Void
9:54 Time Is Running Out
11:35 Babies Pulled From Incubators
14:50 Deceptions Revealed
20:29 Why it Matters
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How the Gulf War Was Sold to America
How $12,000,000 Sold America on the Gulf War
How $12,000,000 Pushed America Into the Gulf War
The True Conspiracy Behind the Gulf War
The Gulf War's Hidden Deception Operation
The Gulf War's $12 Million Mass Deception Campaign
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Back in January 1990, the U.S. faced a crucial decision: whether to intervene militarily in the conflict between Kuwait and Iraq. With the U.S. Congress on the verge of voting, a powerful lobbying and PR firm, Hill and Knowlton, was hired by the Kuwait government to sway the decision.
The centerpiece of their strategy was the establishment of "Citizens for Free Kuwait," a seemingly grassroots movement that projected Kuwait as a fledgling democracy under siege by a brutal dictator.
But when the democracy messaging wasn't working they changed their plan to an intricate set of lies that would bring the U.S. to war. The most consequential part of the campaign was the testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah. She spoke of an atrocities going on in Kuwait at the hands of Iraqi soldiers, babies being taken from their incubators and left to die on hospital floors.
This video aims to track how this story took hold and what the implications are for us today.
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