An interesting feature from 1992 on the propaganda that helped gain American public support for the Gulf War. It’s around 30 minutes long but worth watching. [YouTube]
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2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 20032:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003An interesting feature from 1992 on the propaganda that helped gain American public support for the Gulf War. It’s around 30 minutes long but worth watching. [YouTube]
41 replies on “To Sell A War – Gulf War Propaganda”
No one can deny what Saddam and his soldiers did to Kuwait. Propaganda or not, they still killed our people and took them as hostages. The war and what they did was NOT exaggerated. This is preposterous.
The documentary mostly focuses on the turning point that got the American people to support this war and how that was achieved. They never say the war shouldn’t have occurred or that Saddam was innocent.
You mean focusing on the only lie they found?
Iraqis raped daughters in front of their fathers and forced other Kuwaitis to rape each others. They hangged women on the ceiling fans and rapped them in our schools and we came back after the invasion to see all the mess left. Iraqis emptied the swimming pools of the sports clubs in the suburban areas and threw young men from the top of the highest jumping boards.
They drilled mens heads, scooped their eyes out, toasted their hands, mutilated their gentiles and shot them dead in front of their mothers and left them at their doorsteps. They also killed anyone that tried to move away the body.
This is just a fraction of what they did… and it was documented and presented in pictures and videos to the UN before the liberation of Kuwait. Yet for some people only focus on one single propaganda? interesting.
That video is shameless, I don’t know why you chose to post it.
There’s a lot of anti-Kuwaiti sentiment in the West, Levant and North Africa. It’s just a guise for racism.
I’m not an anthropologist, but wouldn’t Iraqis and Kuwaitis be considered members of the same race?
No. Kuwaiti is a race of its own xD
I humbly confess I had to look up what xD means…OK, we’re good. Thought you may have been serious.
well everyone knows of the atrocities. But remember that Iraq wanted to keep kuwait & not destroy it.If saddam didnt want kuwait and just wanted to take revenge , he would have caused destruction within few weeks with his half a million iraqi soldiers in kuwait.
But Kuwait was fortunate due to Allah’s will.
Sad part is that despite the worlds support for liberation of Kuwait..the human rights records against expats is pretty bad in kuwait.Bangladeshis whose soldiers died clearing the mines are one of the most lowly treated. domestic workers have no rights and are routinely abused in 15% of houses(as per many Human rights report)..expats have to be under sponsorship which is unacceptable in the 21st century. little has been done
Kuwait’s human rights record isn’t as bad as the human rights record in other Middle East countries.
Kuwait is ranked Partly Free in Freedom House’s Freedom in the World survey. Most Middle East countries are ranked Not Free in the survey.
Lebanon and Jordan also have Kafala systems.
Lebanon n jordan are similar like kuwait who believe that domestic workers do not deserve any rights…and even for skilled workers kafala still present…Islam brought arabs out of jahiliyyah…but now many arabs are going back to.jahiliyyah..Kuwait and other Gcc countries being muslim are hypocritic when it comes to rights of expats.they deport the innocent expat who got the visa from a kuwaiti visa trader,but the kuwaiti remains free!why? The campaigns to deport expats who r illegal or are workingin companies with domestic worker visa will not work! until they catch those visa traders and the big sharks in the ministry who sell these fake visas…..
Completely agree with Mark. Of course it’s a good thing that Kuwait got liberated, only a fool would disagree on this.
But with currently again so many violent areas in the world, it’s important to realize that.. “The first casualty of war is truth.” (Hiram Warren Johnson)
A strategy still executed by all powers. Big and small. It was useful to accelerate the military intervention of the coalition in Kuwait at that time, but has a very dangerous side effect.
As a European I can honestly say that I never automatically believe what my Government states. Or, even worse, what the EU in Brussels sells as the truth.
And who out there still only trust on the Main Stream Media for reliable information?
Hasn’t it become a Pavlov-reaction by most of us to check news from official sources immediately at non-official news sites? We tend to rely more on Twitter than our official media outlets as the newspaper, radio and television.
Due to the fact that we can’t trust the media anymore, we have become more-and-more apathetic people, indifferent for the real problems and suffering of other human beings. Regardless what nationality, the color of their skin, the religion they belong to, their sex or whatever valid reason….. We just don’t care anymore.
That’s why objective and honest news is decisive, because it leads to new views and understanding for differences and problems among the people and nations.
Of course censorship should be banned, due to the simple fact that it prohibits criticism. And news without criticism is just propaganda. A lie.
So im curious – what do ppl on here think about the whole lateral drilling of oil claim? at least that’s what I think it was called!
It’s somewhat complex to explain, but I’ll present you with two facts, and you can judge for yourself.
1- Iraqi oil naturally drains into Kuwait because of the rock formations.
2- Lateral drilling was done in Iraq by American and French oil companies.
Slant drilling was being done by Kuwait prior to the outbreak of war. America’s ambassador to Iraq also give the indication that the US would not interfere in local disputes. What do you think was going on after the invasion of Iraq if Kuwait was slant drilling when Saddam was in power…
There is no evidence of slant drilling. Saddam had many different excuses for invading Kuwait.
The real reason Saddam invaded Kuwait was to increase American hegemony in the Gulf so that Iran gets surrounded by American military bases from all sides.
lol WHAT
The US offered to pay Kuwait for leasing a military base, Kuwait refused. The American considered it to be arrogance from Kuwait side. At the same time, the Europeans were unhappy about Kuwait’s foreign investments in the EU. Out of nowhere, Kuwait was all of a sudden investing in the UK, Spain and Germany. At some point its investments was capable of affecting the European economy.
less than two years later, Iraq invaded Kuwait. The US was paid some $200 (million or billion cant recall exactly) in cash to mobilize its troops to liberate Kuwait. Kuwait had to sell most of its foreign investments as a result and the US got permanent bases in all gulf counties.
btw, few years back the US requested a military base in the UAE. The UAE declined… few weeks later Iran threatened military actions against UAE in consequence the UAE invited the US to have military base on their lands.
+1
So you’re saying that the governments of both Kuwait and the UAE determined that an American military presence was in their best interest?
No.
Thats not the entire truth..american administration was vary of a war after their vietnam experience. It was Saudi & kuwaiti blunder to invite Western forces inside the holy land..They had an option to mobilize an Arab & muslim coalition , but they chose the easy way out without thinking the long term effects. Egypt,Saudi,Syria,Turkey and many other muslim nations were ready to liberate kuwait , but before that could be organized the Saudis called americans in within 1 week of the invasion.
A muslim coalition definetly would have taken more time to liberate Kuwait but eventually it would work with Sanctions.Iraq would be suffocated for sure. This way Kuwait & the Neighbors could have complete sovereignity from the west. And most importantly it would have prevented the bloody of massacre of 1 million Iraqis since the 2003 war..
Those iraqis are your brothers ,except for the baathist regime.
the oil was indeed stolen by slant drilling. Go and read the reports. This is the truth. Kuwait itself admitted about it , but they offered only to pay half the amount in damages. Iraqis demanded 100% recompensation
The biggest problem with the stories that came out of the invasion was that so many of them sounded so unlikely that they weren’t believed. But I saw too much, even though it was far less than others had to witness. What happened in 1990/1991 was the rape of a country and its citizens by a demented meglomaniac who, to the day he met his timely end, probably couldn’t see what the problem was. In my opinion, he should have been handed over to the Kuwaiti’s. That way justice would have truely been carried out. After all, do unto others as they would do to you…
wow, but again, this could be one of the 60 minutes program propaganda
This is quite a risky post
I was thinking the same thing, Ali.
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The end justifies the means!
If this is what it took to get the Iraqis out of Kuwait, faster, well so be it!
The Kuwaiti resistance movement was successfully getting rid of the Iraqis. We didn’t need the Americans to liberate us.
LOL.
I literally laughed out loud. So loud in fact.
you laugh at him, i laugh at your people dieing in our behalf for some oil money. get out of Kuwait
All your gov’t needs to do is say so.
You need to read more. The resistance was successful.
If that were true, there would have been no Iraqis in Kuwait when the US showed up. They were brave and effectively harassed the Iraqis, but thinking it was militarily significant is just delusional.
The resistance kept the Iraqi soldiers nervous and on their feet, and successfully conducted a few sporadic raids to kill and scare them… but were no match for the sheer numbers and firepower of the Iraqi army
Most Kuwaitis live in the governorates of Capital, Hawalli and Farwaniya
232,727 Kuwaitis live in the Capital governorate
213,025 Kuwaitis live in Hawalli governorate
224,535 Kuwaitis live in Farwaniya governorate
There are 1,242,499 Kuwaitis in total
Only 45% of Kuwaitis live in Jahra, Ahmadi, and Mubarak al-Kabeer governorates
167,404 Kuwaitis live in Jahra governorate
262,178 Kuwaitis live in Ahmadi governorate
142,374 Kuwaitis live in Mubarak al-Kabeer governorate
Source: https://stat.paci.gov.kw/englishreports/
In Gender By Nationality and Age and Governorate
All the numbers are there
the resistance of kuwaitis consisted of just 500 or so guerilla hit and run tactics.they could in no way liberate kuwait from half a million iraqi army.
By the way, its hilarious that so many kuwaitis have superiority complex against expats, but when the iraqis attacked…3,00,000 kuwaitis fled to saudi arabia(out of 5,00,000 kuwaiti population)in just 1 month…I wonder where did that superiority,boldness and bravery went?
Stop lying. There was never 3 million Kuwaitis in 1990. 50% of Kuwaitis fled Kuwait during the gulf war. The other 50% of Kuwaitis stayed in Kuwait and defended their land. The Kuwaiti resistance consisted of thousands of Kuwaitis. You need to stop lying. Most expats in Kuwait fled during the gulf war, whereas 50% of Kuwaitis stayed in Kuwait to defend their land.
Kuwait would be well-advised to maintain some degree of vigilance. There are many in Iraq who STILL see Kuwait as a 19th Province. They lack the capability to do much of anything right now, but that may not be case in 10 years.
hey matt
wake up, you seem to be still sleeping since 1990…the invasion of kuwait was trigger by the misbehaviour of Kuwait to not resolve the overproduction of oil & also slant drilling! 3 to 4 meetings co-ordinated by Egypt, Saudi & other arab states putting pressure on kuwait to comply did not work…Iraq was getting suffocated by the drop in oil prices due to Kuwaiti breaking of OPEC laws..
Stop misbehaving & then no one will touch you…but if you continue to be arrogant & act like you did in 1990 , the same might repeat ,- but this time it may be Iran or someoneelse!