How False Testimony and a Massive U.S. Propaganda Machine Bolstered George H.W. Bush’s War on Iraq
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- democracynow.org - As the media memorializes George H.W. Bush, we look at the lasting impact of his 1991 invasion of Iraq and the propaganda campaign that encouraged it. Although the Gulf War technically ended in February of 1991, the U.S. war on Iraq would continue for decades, first in the form of devastating sanctions and then in the 2003 invasion launched by George W. Bush. Thousands of U.S. troops and contractors remain in Iraq. A largely forgotten aspect of Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq is the vast domestic propaganda effort before the invasion began. We look at the way U.S. media facilitated the war on Iraq with journalist John “Rick” MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine and the author of the book “Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War.”
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Dying doesn't make you a good person
exactly^ .... dum dums think just cause a evil looserfarian dies they find lord lol wow... wake up
AND DUMBASS UN USED A SIGNED MIGRATION AS PART OF THE TOOL, IF THEY DIDNT INVADE THESE COUNTRIES NOTHING WOULD HAVE HAPPENED AND NOW THESE COUNTRIES ARE NOT ALLOWED THEM TO FLEE, BECAUSE WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOT CHARGING THOSE WAR CRIMINALS AND THEY ARE SMILING AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED.
Dying doesn't make you a good person... You nailed it with that one
It actually seems the best among us die early... 20-50's. And every single one of them leave a massive footprint of people they positively influence. We are born into slavery... where we have to work a majority of our existance to even feed, house and cloth ourselves.... the most wicked seem to last the longest. Gripping to this existance.
...but for a bad person, it is at least an improvement!
The more you know about the US, the less the US seems like the good guy...
Stalin...now that was a good guy...pol pot...another good one.
@@stevenpbm so many US prez learned from the likes of Stalin & Pol Pot.
@Steve G
Cleary I was commenting on the decades of de facto 'good guy' status of the US which isn't exactly deserved, and also, that doesn't mean I think other countries and leaders were bad too... duh
Shooting star, the more you know!
The less these elite families look like the good guys.
History is written by the winner
Thank you for reporting truth instead of pretending that he was a good man just because he died. Dying doesn't erase war crimes, warmongering, and hurting millions. God remembers.
the media was only pretending he was a nice guy when he died because they hated Trump. When H.W. Bush was in office they called him a wimp and other disparaging things. It's all fake and the media has been complicit forever.
40 decapitated babies!!!! 😭😭😭 liars always lie.
Nayirah’s testimony should have earned her and all who prepped her long jail terms. Real long. Hill and Knowlton should have been dissolved never to be a business in Washington again. But there is no accountability for these people. Instead of constant foreign wars, the US should aim its warmongering at the ruling class who have produced nothing but hell for most of the world.
Right on!!!
Well said!!!
I'm not mourning for Bush. The world became a better place as soon as he left it.
There are still some Bushes left... :(
His son and many such assholes are still living and prospering
Not really, America still keep bombing middle east like a shooting range and steal more oil
I never see America apologized for killing innocent people over there. so you comment means noting to me
@@TheSaltwater Let's put their heads on stakes.
40 babies beheaded = Nayirah tesimony
history repeats itself
Exactly what I was thinking.
Not to mention the fake Gazan nurse video ... almost word for word the same
Greta Thunberg is the same story.
Ironically many babies ARE dying because they are being forced out of incubators.
@@Matty272 probably a hoax
How many times must Americans be duped before they wise the hell up!?
Walt F.,
5 or 6 more times of lying may be sufficient for people to realize that all governments fib. OK, I bet that by the 10th time we will wise up to the fact that "something is rotten in Denmark" but never in Washington!
Walt F. No one sees threw the vail while they keep us divided fighting each other with political parties like Democrat and Republican.
@ But what were the options? There were slim pickings at that time.
Walt F.,
The best place to start is stop listening to biased, skewed, incomplete reporting like this! Smh
Given how much they are drinking the Uyghur kool-aid, probably never.
US Corporate Media has failed us for years and continues to do so. Thanks for covering this.
fail is not the word to use. How many fake stories they build up to framed Asian countries so our government need to surrender to USA keep buying all these bullshit military weapon from USA.
The rupert murdoch factor.
Greed and ratings
Failed? WTF! More like COMPLICIT! MSM is NOTHING BUT PROPAGANDA! Telling the truth is committing career suicide and it’s not allowed! All msm is a Council on Foreign Relations fabrication!
Wow talk about ignorance. You ideologically possessed I D I O T!!!@@unggrabb
And the fruit didn't fall far from the tree.
Yes George you are more lower than a tiny 'Reptile' 🦎! SO LOW THAT EVEN FOOT OF MAN IS INCAPABLE OF CRUSHING YOU! - Thaddeus Stevens, US Politician & lawyer 😆👌👏👍
Most modern journalists are a joke. They are little better than tabloid writers.
They are carefully selected to be hopeless
they get paid. end of stories
Absolutely right. Journalists nowadays are not true investigative reporters. They write what they're told to write. A lot of these "true crime" stories in glossy women's magazines are also made up.
It's worse than that, they're basically stenographers for the so called deep state.
And now they are dying to start a war with Iran and people still will fall for it ,it’s us who love war ,seating far and untouchable we have no idea what war means
people are dumb.
Precisely... look at how Europeans loved to slaughter one another for centuries, and they were all in the midst of it, until 1945 when too much was just too much. Will it take that for Americans to actually wake up as a nation and people and put an end to the criminal record of their government?
it's rearing up again...
"Rumours are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
I can't believe they can recycle sht and some people still fall for it.
Thanks for presenting this excellent guest.
A very similar thing happened in Syria, 2012, when a fake rumor about Children of a school in the southern city of Dara'a getting tortured became viral, which was a catalyst for the Civil war...
USA & UK are pro in media controlled. they claimed that thier media can only report the fact that why people believe. the local news report were monitored by an independent organization. But there is not controlled or monitor for international news.
listen the catalyst was a Qatar pipeline Assad impeded, landing a dirty war in his lap. False gas reports were used for Trump strikes.
and they are doing it now in ukraine about women and children in hospital
@@TheKeithvidz That was under oBAMA.
About this girl, if she knows what she is doing there, she is a war criminal. If she didn't know what she was doing, I doubt that, she is abused. And in that case the child abusers should be locked up for life for abuse of power in the most disgusting manner.
How could she not know what she was doing 😒 She's a liar. It was theatrical for sure, tears and sniffles and everything. Shame on her.
"Nayirah" was in a school in Canada and her father was the ambassador (of Kuwait to the U.S. or Canada I think), which OF COURSE the government and the presidnet knew - she must have entered the U.S. after all with a passport and they check out people that are allowed to give testimony. In other words the president aided in LYING. She is a 15 year old which must be her excuse - but isn't it also a crime to instigate lying under oath ?
Xyz Same,
You are such a stickler for "technicalities!"
@@homayounshirazi9550 Yeah, that's how you catch criminals: by being a stickler for detail.
Especially war criminals.
America's problem is the Americans ...
“It’s hot down here”- George H.W. Bush
Pen jamin: u r a funny person i laughed
david b,
The list is very long. Very, very long.
Lmao
There are lies that cannot be forgiven. There are wounds that do not heal.
Most shocking is the fact that amnesty international and human rights watch supporting it! How despicable do u have to be to do that!
Just yesterday, the media reported 40 babies being beheaded
33 years to the day. I came here to day this. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
It was debunked as fake.
@@brothermalcolm6245I think that's why they posted this...
@@TheBradass It is just shameful from the media.
@@TheBradassholy crow 33 years. If you know, you know!
Our media has been doing this professionally for 50 years
Not true. Examine the news during African-American enslavement and treachery. Perhaps that doesn't count in most Americans eyes. Hence, the re-written of history and the barbarism involved...
She was crying because of her knowing that none of them was true. No humanity and no dignity with them and therefore can't be human.
No. You are missing the big picture. She was coached by a public relations firm for a few million dollars. Edward Bernays. The father of modern propaganda, or "public relations" as he renamed it.... did so because he knew people couldnt understand the impliciations. Public relations is the largest industry on the planet. Bigger than anything. Energy.. military.. tech.. the worlds largest industry is propaganda.. and she got coached by some of the best. Think your shit through before you let your emotions cloud you.
Al Demir No. She was crying because of the damage done to her homeland and what the iraqi soldiers did to Kuwaiti citizens. They took every single military/police/high official as war criminals and tortured them. They killed innocent Kuwaiti people for their own satisfaction and tried to forcefully implement their currency to be used instead of ours going as far as killing people that mention the name of the Amir, old currency or anything about the war.
@@dub6019 nah bro its a fake testimony all of that wasnt true...i cant believe someone believe this...she was a daughter of kuwait's embassy to usa and her english was too good for an arabian
As long as america is in charge, there is no humanity. Only steal and Rob
looks like what US do in every country they invade
@@dub6019
Yep...we have many in the state department, FBI, CIA, Main Stream Media, Justice Department etc. ...who will lie for political ends.
Thank you Mr Obvious. When did you wake up?
who wouldn't ? politicians send by god and 100% truthful with no lies?
she deserves Oscar
They declared a national day of mourning? Just another excuse for our politicians to not have to work.
John W you mean a day that they aren't stealing more of our money , not work ! Silly rabbit dicks are for politicians ears so they can hear
John W
They’ll probably play golf afterwards. _Hors d'oeuvres, anyone?_
John W.
It's all part of "the axis of evil" thing. Don't forget that our politicians never tell a lie! It's always "them, the evil doers" who lie.
She should win an Oscar for that performance
She should be in prison, barred from ever entering the country and I pray she was unable to give birth. Every American that died due to being sent to fight another For Profit War, should sue her, her family and every US politician involved
@Kay Ty if there was any justice in this world, she would! But we know we live in an unjust world. what about all Iraqis who died due to this war and destruction of iraqs infrastructure, water, and electricity supply or the million innocent iraqi children who died due to the sanctions that followed the 1991 bombings of iraq? Are they not as important as the few American soldiers who went there willingly to fight a useless war? just Google al amiriya bomb shelter bombings and you'll see some of the most hideous crimes that were committed against the iraqi people as a direct result of her and your government lies.
Crown prince of Kuwait’s daughter
This is crack
She was forced to say this
We are ruled by monsters.
Thank you amy n all the Folks over ta "Democracy Now" fer all yer hard work and the level of Journalism...reckon Edward R. Murrow would be proud.
Salute to democracy now for telling the truth
"we prevented an attack on israel" nothing ever changes,americans been dying for israel for decades upon decades
It's just shameful.
В США каждый президент военный преступник .
They’re using this exact same propaganda in Israel now
They are always using the same propaganda everywhere. We are all occupied by them.
Omg Alex Jones has been talking about this for the past 10 years. I'm glad to see independent media is alive and well!
October 2023; Now Israhell is seemingly using the exact same tactic.
And what about Julian Assange who uncovered war crimes? Freedom for Assange!
US arranged this false testimony.. she's the doughter of Canadian embassidor at the time.
Ambasidors doughtier...go figure.. it's been the case always!
Satan likes to bless his people with long life.
Well well well...here in 2023 we have the 40 babies case
This also happening in Hong Kong. The so called pro democracy people came to U.S. to call for sanction to Hong Kong. They are actually an actor and at the mercy of U.S.
And north korea
Exactly. A lot of them were funded by the CIA. It’s truly a shame for Hong Kong.
It's called the NED, an extended arm of the CIA of colour revolution and regime change.
Please pray for the recent 40 beheaded babies
TRUTH never hides. 👍👍👍
The press didn't fail . They succeeded in doing what they were told to do which was the manufacturing of consent .
I bet the Kuwaiti girl and Kavanaugh used the same acting firm.
and Christine.
@@patois You try and try and flop. It's really sad. You ought to get a new hobby, you suck at this. I hear underwater basket weaving is making a comeback.
John W
Ironically lol
No one thought it was suspicious that this recently escaped Kuwaiti nurse spoke perfect English?
Ikr😂😂
Damn! she was a good actress. She is guilty too Millions of people had die because of her lies.
Micky Sanchez The guilt falls on the one in the White House who gave the orders.
@@chazalbuster427 u r Right! .👍 that girl should feel guilty and bad that she was part of the death of those people too.
Let's not even talk of Panama...
Might as well, that was the precursor to Iraq. Try the tech on small scale before employing it for the big game.
Sounds a lot like what we're hearing now
she is 14 then, but she acted perfectly. what a talent.
It is not a lie! One of my family members was raped in front of her family by an Iraqi solider, then the soldier burned the entire house. My uncle is still missing in Iraq. Though my father is a civilian, he was captured and sent to AlKinaq prison in Samawah in October 1990 and released in March 1991 after the Iraqi uprisings. He was tortured by severe beatings and electric shocks.
Every year, mass massacres of Kuwaitis are discovered in the desert of Iraq. The last one was in July 2022. BTW it was not the first invasion of Iraq to Kuwait. They did it in 1961, 1966, and 1973. They also threatened Kuwait for an invasion in 1938 but they did not do it because we were under british occupation.
You definitely won’t feel the pain unless you pass through it!!! I will never forget what I saw in 1990 it changed my life forever!
@@GreatKuwait I think both can be true.
@@GreatKuwait 🐍
What makes this guy think the whole bin Laden narrative wasn't just more propaganda? Real astute..
Journalist like you people are a good sight to see.
now a days A lot of free media has also become highly politicized and lost the journalistic magic of honest news. bitter or not, LEFT or Right.
keep up the good work and may you prosper. Amen.
Now ladies and gentlemen, as many professionals tell us, "Beware of babies in incubators".
Nurse Nayirah was crying without tears.Why didn't anyone notice that? Why would people believe soldiers took baby incubators? What would they do with them? Sell them on eBay? None of that story made any sense.
It is not a lie! One of my family members was raped in front of her family by an Iraqi solider, then the soldier burned the entire house. My uncle is still missing in Iraq. Though my father is a civilian, he was captured and sent to AlKhinaq prison in Samawah in October 1990 and released in March 1991 after the Iraqi uprisings. He was tortured by severe beatings and electric shocks.
Every year, mass massacres of Kuwaitis are discovered in the desert of Iraq. The last one was in July 2022. BTW it was not the first invasion of Iraq to Kuwait. They did it in 1961, 1966, and 1973. They also threatened Kuwait for an invasion in 1938 but they did not do it because we were under british occupation.
You definitely won’t feel the pain unless you pass through it!!! I will never forget what I saw in 1990 it changed my life forever!
@@GreatKuwait she was lying beyond any doubt.
someone must have coached the Kuwaiti lying teenager ("Nayirah") about how to achieve that sniffy, teary voice. She cannot bring up real tears and wet eyes (that would be some serious acting), but she manipulated her voice. That - and the text - were well rehearsed, no doubt. If she would not deliver during her "testimony" or break under pressure or if the game would be uncovered that could have done a lot of harm to the war agenda. - But she did not let the war mongers down.
You mean that she was knowingly participating in a charade to fool Americans to go to war?!
"I seek refuge behind Allah to protect me from the Devil." LOL!
She was coached by Hill+Knowlton Strategies and all of officialdom knew it.
these three are giving TRUE history
Lies then and lies now.
Where is she?? Jail? Or free???
They're using this same playbook on the uyghur "genocide".
The Zelensky character = Propaganda 101
How could she live with herself?
It is not the first time i see Democracy Now do the hard job of not going with the narrative and instead tell the things many do not want to hear. I will keep my opinion on Bush senior for myself, i just wanted to salut the journalistic discipline of DN.
Thank you for your reporting!
WTF!! Every American should watch this! How lousy! Lol
I recall to hear Bush on television regurgitating the same story that Iraqi soldiers left newborns outside incubators intentionally to die...
But the "orks" are totally evil this time. Promise.
It is not a lie! One of my family members was raped in front of her family by an Iraqi solider, then the soldier burned the entire house. My uncle is still missing in Iraq. Though my father is a civilian, he was captured and sent to AlKinaq prison in Samawah in October 1990 and released in March 1991 after the Iraqi uprisings. He was tortured by severe beatings and electric shocks.
Every year, mass massacres of Kuwaitis are discovered in the desert of Iraq. The last one was in July 2022. BTW it was not the first invasion of Iraq to Kuwait. They did it in 1961, 1966, and 1973. They also threatened Kuwait for an invasion in 1938 but they did not do it because we were under british occupation.
You definitely won’t feel the pain unless you pass through it!!! I will never forget what I saw in 1990 it changed my life forever!
And here we are again with Ukraine.
Here we are 4 years later, 30 years after these scams and they’re using the same fake propaganda to justify Ukraine despite the facts now available. Never-ending BS.
reminds me of covid doctors giving testimony
I don't know what to do - like or dislike this video. On one hand, the author is not responsible for the princess of Kuwait's words, on the other hand, he did publish a video where she cries a crocodile's tears. Good thing that we have thi9s video to remember the corruption of politicians. Definite like!
finally a real look at his record.
Compare this to Zelenskyy At Congress 😮
Nobody has noticed at that time that her english is not Kuwaiti from a girl that " just came out of Kuwait " ??
Anybody familiar with the Middle Eastern countries noticed right away. Seeing that the Americans are such suckers, I'm surprised how they've become a superpower.
Lies, lies, more lies, makes me sick, GWH Bush must answer to Almight GOD, GW also! I'm sicken buy them! Praying for Humanity
Kool aid of a different color
Thank you for the good reporting. Honesty is greatly valued by God. The politicians lack honesty and integrity; we pay the bills through our hard work while our infrastructure is collapsing.
Not much different from those fake claims we see from Uyghurs these days. People need to stop believing what they hear so easily. That girl was super convincing, but it was all an act.
I have seen a video with my own eyes of a familly burried alive..literally
Difference is that they never proved that the Uyghurs were fake. There is no actual footage and people who try to prove it only show the city, and not the remote area which is miles away
There's actual footages on Uyghurs not a false testimony by a 15 years old girl.
You're working for CCP?
@Bumblebee Gamer maybe try looking at some Chinese media then? They've proven countless claims are lies. Also the burden of proof is not in china. If America wants to claim genocide they'd better have some pretty convincing evidence and yet they don't
Scary as hell.
Be good for people to remember this during the new propaganda war in Ukraine.
Politicians lie? OMG! So what is really new?
At least Bush could have hired an actor with an Arab accent. Here the girl gives testimony in English with an accent as American as apple pie. Nobody who belongs outside the USA could have been fooled by the statement.
Thank you for reminding us what really happened and what a disastrous president he was. I guess Trump is such a lying terrible person that anyone else will be remembered in a better light than they really were. Both Bush presidents were awful. Let us not forget history.
yet rump never went to war
@@keengro3740 Iran did not take the bait. he said he wanted to be a war time president.
@@tabo01name one war trump did
@@keengro3740 nope, he dodged the draft for EIGHT YEARS
I was a teenager when all of this went down. I remember her testimony, and I remember my family members being very upset. So, are you really saying that her testimony was all a lie? I remember an older gentleman testifying to these same claims. Why wasn't there an investigation? Why wasn't anyone held accountable for these lies, if they were in fact, not true?
You and your family were hoodwinked and because of being misinformed by a complicit media over a million lives have been snubbed this was the first Bush family military crime against the people of Iraq . Another war fought for Saudi Arabia and Israel .
Greed, and power.
Bu Rida Signed, The Ministry of Information, Kuwait
Bu Rida Signed, Ministry Of Truth, Kuwait.
Did you know who back the Iraqi army when they invaded Kuwait?
At the time Bush knew American people were wary of war, as he said "We have to kick that Vietnam syndrome in the butt."
Babys taken out of inquibator.. children are beheaded...same song.. isn't it evil.
They still using the same methods
Happy Nayirah Day!
Yeah, 33 years later the same report is coming out of Israel.
woah ! i never knew of this young girl but as i watched it just now i was thinking hmm she has an American accent so woah ...now that is sophisticated propaganda. This reminds me of the madness inflicted on Laos etc.
I've never heard someone from Kuwait speak before, but do they usually have American accents? Wouldn't people at the time find this suspicious that a random Kuwaiti teenager would speak such great English?
And now they used in Syiria and Afganistan 😂
> Just came out of Kuweit 1:57
> Speaks with a perfect American accent
How could Americans fall easilly for this shit?
THIS was interesting. More interesting is the fact that it took 27 years for this to become public. The next normal step would be for other journalists to shed more light on this story. Is it true, false or something in between?
It is essential for the US nation to know the truth before "they" engineer the next war, wherever that may be.
It is not a lie! One of my family members was raped in front of her family by an Iraqi solider, then the soldier burned the entire house. My uncle is still missing in Iraq. Though my father is a civilian, he was captured and sent to AlKhinaq prison in Samawah in October 1990 and released in March 1991 after the Iraqi uprisings. He was tortured by severe beatings and electric shocks.
Every year, mass massacres of Kuwaitis are discovered in the desert of Iraq. The last one was in July 2022. BTW it was not the first invasion of Iraq to Kuwait. They did it in 1961, 1966, and 1973. They also threatened Kuwait for an invasion in 1938 but they did not do it because we were under british occupation.
You definitely won’t feel the pain unless you pass through it!!! I will never forget what I saw in 1990 it changed my life forever!
@@GreatKuwait I call BS
Its well known fact that when iraq invaded Kuwait the iraqi soldiers were handing out flowers to the Kuwaiti citizens
Well known fact? Well known to who?? More well known than the people who were actually present during the war?
Three of my uncles (Kuwaiti) were tortured during 1990.. and they all died from their wounds. They were not military too they were normal people.
There are women who were raped in front of their husbands and impregnated by Iraqi soldiers.
They gave out flowers? Is that a joke or something?
Same story nowadays with Ukraine.
Its not the same. War in Irak was real while one in Ukraine is not.
I am disappointed with Amy for not asking the obvious question: how do we know she was lying?
Because she was officially coached by an American corporate entity, (can't remember the name) to sway public opinion. Worked like a charm
The evidence speaks for itself, maybe that's why Amy didn't feel the need to ask a pointless question.
A bit like Russia bombing a maternity hospital?
She wasn't and isn't a kwaitie she is AMERICAN and has never left , or atleast at the time, or home land EVER
I can tell from the accent.
Rat In Peace bush 🤮
I died when they said trump is not invited to speak :30
Trump doesn't like the Bush's and they don't like him.
I would have loved to have heard Trumps eulogy.
Trump's Eulogy:
"I told you so!"