Quote Originally Posted by Kidkbloom
(And, if we moved in on Saddam because of currency, then am I to believe that the stories of human torture wherein children were tied to ceiling finans until they were swung to death were fabricated? Or were they just "icing on the cake" for reasons to move in military?)
Actually, I vaguely remember the events around the 1st gulf war - was in school at the time, was not interested in politics at that time and paid very little attention since my country was not involved at all. Howe.ver, it was brought up in school

The stories about Iraqi soldiers pulling infants out of incubators were widely circulated though.

I remember a teacher saying "I think you can take that with a pinch of salt - it's typical war propaganda".

Imagine yourself: If you were in an invasion force, invading a country that you hated (and bear in mind, the Iraqis did NOT hate Kuwait, their neighbours and fellow Arabs). Would you honestly pull out innocent babies from incubators and deliberately try to hurt civilians? The Kuwaitis hadn't actually done anything to the Iraqis, so there was no reason for Iraqis to feel any passionate hatred against them. It goes against everything that's known about human behaviour. Iraqis are humans, many religious with rich culture and old traditions. Perhaps there was one incident of some crazy person doing that, but the rest was fabricated and there is a lot of fabrication around.

I read an article in a respectable magazine that was genuinely suggesting that TERRORISM was funded by income from illegal piracy online, and from child pornography. So that when you download from a torrent site or similar, then you are "funding terrorism". Give me a break!

With media feeding you so much rubbish, you have to use your own head to decide what to believe in or not. Not always an easy job!