{"article":{"id":263238,"heading":"Flashback to 1991: "Kuwait freed, Iraqis crushed"","author":"Cem Ert\u00fcr","created":"2014-03-01 17:58:10","modified":"2014-03-01 17:58:10","last_modified":"Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:58:10","article":"

\r\n    New\r\nYork Times, 28 February 1991

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Flashback\r\nto 1991: \"Kuwait freed, Iraqis crushed\"<\/span>


\r\ncompiled by Cem Ertür

\r\n28 February 2014






\"The [1991] war on Iraq\r\nwas portrayed in the U.S. as a war without casualties. Yet, on the\r\nfirst day of air strikes against Iraq (Jan. 17, 1991), the U.S. dropped\r\nexplosives equivalent to the explosive power of the Atomic bomb dropped\r\non Hiroshima. Throughout the duration of the bombing, explosives\r\nequivalent to seven nuclear bombs were dropped, in addition to\r\ninternationally banned biological and chemical weapons.<\/span>\"\r\n  [ Burning\r\nthe cradle of civilization\r\n by B. J. Sabri, 23 July 2006]<\/div>\r\n







U.S.\r\nPresident George Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher\r\nand NATO Secretary-General Manfred Wörner hold
\r\na joint <\/span>press\r\nconference four days after\r\nIraq's invasion of Kuwait, White\r\nHouse, Washington D.C., 6 August 1990<\/span>










U.S.\r\nPresident George Bush <\/span>meets\r\nwith Turkey's President Turgut Özal,\r\nWhite\r\nHouse, Washington D.C., 25 September 1990<\/span>




Turkish\r\nleaders assured Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d yesterday\r\nthat US forces could use military bases here against President Saddam\r\nHussein of Iraq, US officials said. \"Of course, we now have the use of\r\nbases here in Turkey as a part of\r\nagreements under the North Atlantic Alliance arrangements and\r\nunderstandings,\" Baker told reporters before leaving Ankara for\r\nBrussels, where he will hold talks with NATO officials today. Turkey is\r\none of the 16 members of the alliance. Baker said that \"in the event\r\nthere were to be full-scale hostilities .\r\n. . I'm quite confident we could count on our allies the Turks.\"

\r\nThe United States maintains more than a dozen joint facilities with\r\nTurkey [...]  The most pivotal facility now is [NATO's\r\nIncirlik Airbase] [...] near the town of Adana, 500 miles from Iraq,\r\nwhere sophisticated American aircraft and about 2,400 US personnel are\r\nstationed. It is the only tactical US air base between Italy and the\r\nFar East and therefore would be essential in moving swiftly against\r\nIraq.


\r\n[excerpt from:  Turkey would\r\nsupport us in\r\ncase of war, Baker says<\/span>\r\n by Adam Pertman, Boston Globe, 10 August 1990]
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\"Kuwaiti\r\nnurse Nayirah\" gives a fabricated testimony to the\r\nCongressional Human Rights Caucus, U.S. Congress,
\r\nWashington D.C., <\/span>10 October 1990\r\n<\/span>




A\r\ntearful 15-year\r\nold ‘Kuwaiti’ girl tells the story, before the U.S.\r\nCongressional Caucus on\r\nHuman Rights, that gun-wielding Iraqi Arab soldiers had removed Kuwaiti\r\nArab\r\nbabies from their incubators and left them on the floor of a Kuwait\r\nCity\r\nhospital to die. The transcripts of the shocking testimony were sent to\r\nmost\r\nmajor news outlet throughout the West. The video-tapes of the hearing\r\nwere\r\n‘leaked’ to several TV stations. Op-ed columnists\r\nhad a field day. The horrifying\r\ntale was repeated again and again, ad nauseum, by the U.S. press in\r\nparticular, and\r\nreferred to by virtually every major American politician. [...]<\/div>\r\n
It\r\nturns out that the she was the daughter of one of the Emirs of Kuwait\r\nand a member of the Kuwaiti ruling family. And this Emir was also, the\r\nuh, Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. [Saud Nasir Al-Sabah.]
\r\nThe\r\ngirl, known only by her first\r\nname and fictive position (’Nurse Nayirah’), had\r\nbeen previously coached by a team from Hill & Knowlton (then\r\nthe world’s largest PR firm). [...]  Needless to\r\nsay, the girl’s testimony turned out to be completely false.\r\nNot only was Nayirah not even a nurse anywhere and almost assuredly was\r\nnot in Kuwait when the Iraqis invaded, but it was later determined that\r\nthe hospital in question had not one incubator removed, nor were there\r\nany actual reports of infant deaths at any Kuwait hospitals.
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[excerpt\r\nfrom:  Incubator\r\nbabies, “stonings” & Amnesty\r\nInternational’s dirty propaganda war<\/span> \r\nby Aion Essence, AlterNet, 25 September 2010]
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U.S.\r\nPresident George Bush gives a <\/span>speech\r\nto the U.S. troops on\r\nThanksgiving Day at the Military Airlift Command ramp
\r\nat Dhahran <\/span>International Airport,\r\nSaudi Arabia, 22 November 1990<\/span>










U.S.\r\nUndersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Chairman\r\nof Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell,
\r\nU.S. Defense<\/span> Secretary Dick Cheney,\r\nU.S. CENTCOM Commander Norman Schwarzkopf,\r\nLieutenant-General Calvin\r\n
\r\nWaller and <\/span>Major-General Robert\r\nJohnston, 1 December 1990<\/span>










U.S.\r\nPresident George Bush speaks at a <\/span>press\r\nconference attended by the\r\nambassadors of 27 countries, White House,
\r\nWashington <\/span>D.C., 17 December 1990<\/span>










Britain's\r\nPrince Charles is greeted by a Saudi prince during a\r\npre-Christmas visit to the Navy, Army and Air Force units of
\r\nthe\r\nBritish <\/span>Armed Forces in Saudi\r\nArabia, 23 December 1990<\/span>










Actress\r\nBrooke Shields is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway during\r\na visit to the Persian Gulf sponsored by the
\r\nUnited Service <\/span>Organizations, 1 January\r\n1991<\/span>











U.S.\r\nPresident George Bush <\/span>meets\r\nwith Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to U.S.\r\nPrince Bandar Bin Sultan the day after he <\/span>
announced\r\nthe end of the war on Iraq and the \"liberation\" of Kuwait,\r\nWhite House,\r\nWashington D.C., 28 February 1991<\/span>










U.S.\r\nCENTCOM Commander Norman Schwarzkopf presents the \"Legion of\r\nMerit\"\r\nmedal to United Arab Emirates' Chief
\r\nof Staff <\/span>Muhammed Said Al-Badi for\r\nhis role during the war, 2 April 1991<\/span>










Prior\r\nto \"Operation Welcome Home\" parade, New York Governor Mario Cuomo\r\nand New York City Mayor David Dinkins\r\n
\r\ngive <\/span>keys to New York City\r\nto U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of\r\nStaff Colin\r\nPowell
\r\nand U.S.<\/span> CENTCOM Commander Norman\r\nSchwarzkopf, New York City, 10 June 1991<\/span>










U.S.\r\nPresident George Bush shakes hands with U.S. CENTCOM Commander\r\nNorman\r\nSchwarzkopf as Barbara Bush pins
\r\nthe <\/span>\"Presidential Medal of\r\nFreedom\", White House, Washington D.C., 3 July\r\n1991<\/span>










Blackened\r\ncorpses of Iraqi soldiers lay sprawled on a destroyed truck,\r\nIraq, 12 March 1991<\/span>



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From\r\nthe archives:<\/span>


Burning\r\nthe cradle of civilization

\r\nby B. J. Sabri, Global Research, 23 July 2006


How\r\nthe U.S. engineered the\r\nIraqi holocaust

\r\nby B. J. Sabri, Uruknet, 1 June 2006


\r\nU.S. bombing: The myth of surgical bombing in the Gulf War

\r\nby Paul Walker, 8 June 1991


\r\nThe massacre of withdrawing soldiers on \"The highway of death\"

\r\nby Joyce Chediac, 11 May 1991


\r\nU.S. conspiracy to initiate the war against Iraq

\r\nby Brian Becker, 11 May 1991


\r\nInitial Complaint Charging George Bush, J. Danforth Quayle, James\r\nBaker, Richard Cheney, William Webster, Colin Powell, Norman\r\nSchwarzkopf and Others to be named with Crimes Against Peace, War\r\nCrimes, Crimes Against Humanity

\r\nby International War Crimes Tribunal, 9 May 1991


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