How lies about babies being taken out of incubators were used to gain public opinion in order to send troops to war – Bush War I.

When ’60 Minutes’ was still worth watching.

After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait there was a 15 year old girl called Nayirah who claimed that Iraqi soldiers were killing babies by throwing them out of their incubators. It was only once the USA invaded Iraq that the baby killing story was exposed to be fake and Nayirah [had] received support via a public relations corporation called Hill & Knowlton. It also turned out she was related to the Kuwait royal family and was an ambassador’s daughter. (source)

Baby incubators lies used to start a war