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British press reports at the outbreak of the Great War had German soldiers throwing babies in the air and catching them on bayonets. The Western press widely r
by jjgreen 3y ago
British press reports at the outbreak of the Great War had German soldiers throwing babies in the air and catching them on bayonets. The Western press widely reported Iraqi soldiers pulling babies from Kuwaiti incubators, and that was used to justify the Gulf war. There is nothing new in the world of propaganda.
- cempaka 3y agoThe Kuwaiti incubators stuff wasn't just press accounts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony