Most Americans believe that only communist or evil nations use propaganda on their population. However, this week I will be showing you several examples of how the Military Industrial Complex has manipulated the minds of Americans to support sending their sons & daughters off to fight the bankers’ wars.
Today’s example takes us back to the fall of 1990. In October 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl known only as "Nayirah" delivered a tearful testimony before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus. She claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers storming a Kuwaiti hospital, removing babies from incubators, and leaving them to die on the cold floor. Her emotional account, widely broadcast, stirred outrage in the United States and bolstered public and political support for military intervention against Iraq, culminating in the Gulf War of 1991.
However, Nayirah’s story was later revealed to be a fabrication. In 1992, investigations by journalists and human rights organizations uncovered that Nayirah was Nayirah Al-Sabah, the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States. Her testimony was part of a sophisticated public relations campaign orchestrated by the Kuwaiti government and the American PR firm Hill & Knowlton. The firm, hired to sway U.S. opinion in favor of liberating Kuwait after Iraq’s invasion, coached Nayirah and fabricated the incubator story to maximize emotional impact. No evidence was found to support her claims of Iraqi atrocities in hospitals.
The Nayirah testimony was pivotal in shaping the narrative that justified Operation Desert Storm. This is just one example of how the evil forces that run our country influence both Congress and the American public. The incident remains a stark example of how manipulated narratives can drive geopolitical decisions, raising enduring questions about wartime propaganda ethics.
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