Reply #38: Thanks, chlamor! Remember Poppy lied America into Gulf War I, too.

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Bush 41 invented evidence to go to war in 1991, too. Bush gave acting Ambassador April Glaspie the go-ahead to tell Saddam the U.S. has "no position on Arab-Arab border disputes." Then, after Saddam invaded Kuwait, Bush told the Saudis the satellite photos showed Iraq's army massed on the Saudi border. Meanwhile, the PR machinery gets the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter to pretrend she's a nurse and tell Congress she saw Iraqi soldiers take babies out of their incubators and put them on the cold hospital floor. It was a lie, like everything Bush.

How Washington manufactured a war crisis

By Huda M. al-Yassiri, in The Baghdad Observer,
No. 8534. 8 June, 1996

The Gulf war reporting gave evidence that American news consumers were gulled by false reports. The reporting on this matter has been almost completelly one-sided consisting of the admonitions of self-interested. Absent from the reports is hard information from disinterested sources.

Late in January, Channel 4 of the British TV broadcast a documentary showing how American news consumers were dazzled and deluded by manipulators of satellite photos of Kuwait taken five weeks after August 1990 to justify the deployment of US troops to Saudi Arabia, al-Jumhuriya daily newspaper reported.

In a news item published on its January 20 issue, the daily said the documentary reveals the role of the American advertising company, Nolton, in fabricating and airing stories on Iraqi troops that were said to be massing on the Saudi border and that claimed to be constituting the possible threat to Saudi Arabia to justify the massive deployment of US troops to the Gulf.

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The article, "Public doesn't get picture with Gulf satellite photos," said when president George Bush began his massive deployment of American troops to the Gulf in August 1990, he claimed that Iraq, which had just entered Kuwait, had set its sights on Saudi Arabia. On september 11, 1990, Bush addressed a joint session of Congress, saying, "We gather tonight witness to events in the Gulf as significant as they are tragic. 120.000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia".

On January 6, 1991, however, Jean Heller reported in the St. Peters- burg (Fla.) Times that satellite photos taken the same day the president Bush addressed Congress failed to back up his claim of an imminent Iraqi threat. In fact, there was no sign of a massive Iraqi troops buildup in Kuwait.

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