Talk:Nurse Nayirah
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[edit] Copied from Reference?
Check out the cited external link- http://www.visualstatistics.net/East-West/Nurse%20Nayirah/Nurse%20Nayirah.htm much of that is word for word what is on the Wikipedia article. So which came first?
The extlink seems to have shown up in early 2006 [1] while the Wikipedia article is much older. 67.117.130.181 11:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] $14 million?
I thought the figure H&K was paid to convince the American public that the Kuwaiti emir was worth dying for was $11 million, not $14 million. --csloat 22:59, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Repetition
The new material added in the last few days is just a repeat of what was already in the article- along with some choice POV additions such as: The United State’s real purpose for going to war was to protect our oil supply in Kuwait. The new links added are non-working. The photo is probably copyrighted. I'm therefore reverting to Gamaliel's version. --JJay 04:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Consequences
Did anyone get prosecuted for these lies? Last time I looked, there were laws against lying to Congress. Yes, if she has diplomatic immunity, I can see her getting away with it, but what about Lauri Fitz-Pegado, or Hill & Knowlton?
Septegram 21:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Congress
I doubt anyone was prosecuted. They were not presenting in a court of law, nor any place that that she would have to swear to tell the whole truth.
[edit] "there were laws against lying to Congress"
Only if the witness is under oath. And, only committees have subpoena power. Nayirah "testified" before the "Human Rights Caucus." A caucus is an informal group of members of Congress. Any two members of Congress can call themselves a Caucus.
The caucus meeting was dressed up to appear on TV as if it were a an official, committee hearing. It was not. It was all PR. That was a part of the scam.
[edit] Prosecuted but not for lying to Congress
SF Chronicle Jul 8, 1992. pg. A.1, "Ex-Envoy Faces Charges Over Helping Kuwait / 3 indicted for secret roles in propaganda campaign":
- A former U.S. ambassador to Bahrain in the Reagan administration and two former executives of a conservative journal have been charged with taking $7.7 million from Kuwait in secret payments to push for U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf war.
Apparently these guys took $7.7 million from the Kuwaiti government but spent only $2 million of it on the Nayirah hoax and pocketed the other $5.7 million. They were charged with acting as secret agents for Kuwait and with evading taxes.
It looks like there's also a book about the incident, John R. MacArthur, "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War". Might be worth looking at. 67.117.130.181 12:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- It's a great book; there's a chapter on the incident, but the book is about much more than that. csloat 16:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
