How lobbyest can make up story’s to rob our country start wars and cost lives. Where is the oversight group to investigate their stories.
Congressional war vote.
Other politicians picked up the theme. Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois said:
Now is the time to check the aggression of this ruthless dictator, whose troops have bayoneted pregnant women and have ripped babies from their incubators in Kuwait.
Seven U.S. Senators cited the incubator atrocities on the Senate floor in the debate over the resolution authorizing the war.
On January 12, 1991, the Senate voted 52 to 47 in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution. The air war began on January 17, 1991.
We went to war because the Kuwaiti’s paid Robert Gray millions. And he, in turn, paid those congressmen a lousy $50 grand.
Everything was a lie.
The girl from Kuwait had hardly been in the country. She was Nayirah al-Sabah, the daughter of Saud Nasir al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States. She had grown up in Washington, D.C. She had been coached for her testimony by a Hill & Knowlton vice president named Lauri Fitz-Pegado.
When Kuwait itself later commissioned Kroll Associates to investigate the affair, Nayirah told Kroll she had never been a hospital volunteer. She had “stopped by for a few minutes.” She had seen one baby outside its incubator “for no more than a moment.”
The witness who corroborated her at the United Nations Security Council, identified to the public as a Kuwaiti physician, was Dr. Ibraheem Behbehani, head of the Kuwait Red Crescent. He was a dentist. He had never set foot in the maternity ward.
In March 1991, with the war won, ABC News correspondent John Martin went to Kuwait. He interviewed the doctors and nurses who had stayed at Al-Adan Hospital through the occupation. No baby had been pulled from any incubator. No incubator had been stolen. No mass killing of newborns had occurred.
Amnesty International withdrew its 300-baby figure. John Healey, the executive director of Amnesty International USA, accused the Bush administration of opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement.
There were never any consequences for any of the actors involved in manufacturing the lie. Rep. Lantos kept his seat until his death. Rep. Porter also kept his. Robert Gray remained worldwide chairman of Hill & Knowlton Public Affairs. Lauri Fitz-Pegado was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994 as director general of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service.
When Robert Gray retired in the early 1990s, he bought the grandest remaining 1920s mansion on Millionaire’s Row in Miami Beach. He renamed the house Villa Crono. Crono – Cronos – the Greek titan who castrated his father, Uranus.
I knew Gray because, starting around 2011, I rented Villa Crono for several winters. At the time Robert was in his 90s. The home was filled with 50 years of political trophies – none bigger than the war he started.
Since 1991, the United States has spent trillions of dollars and uncounted American lives on the wars that followed our initial foray into the Middle East. The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. The 2003 invasion of Iraq. The 2011 intervention in Libya. The campaign against ISIS. And now the 2026 war with Iran. And yes, that’s when it all started. The American military presence in the Persian Gulf, before Gray took his Kuwaiti retainer, was essentially zero.
The reason the Iran war will not end is because Iran cannot defeat us. And we cannot defeat Iran. This is the perfect political operation – it’s a war neither side can win, that will cost trillions to continue fighting.
Much like global warming, it is a huge, unsolvable problem that the politicians can now use to terrify Americans and convince them to yield more and more of their sovereignty and their property to the State. The Iranian militia and their mullahs will, of course, do exactly the same.
ongressional war vote.
Other politicians picked up the theme. Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois said:
Now is the time to check the aggression of this ruthless dictator, whose troops have bayoneted pregnant women and have ripped babies from their incubators in Kuwait.
Seven U.S. Senators cited the incubator atrocities on the Senate floor in the debate over the resolution authorizing the war.
On January 12, 1991, the Senate voted 52 to 47 in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution. The air war began on January 17, 1991.
We went to war because the Kuwaiti’s paid Robert Gray millions. And he, in turn, paid those congressmen a lousy $50 grand.
Everything was a lie.
The girl from Kuwait had hardly been in the country. She was Nayirah al-Sabah, the daughter of Saud Nasir al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States. She had grown up in Washington, D.C. She had been coached for her testimony by a Hill & Knowlton vice president named Lauri Fitz-Pegado.
When Kuwait itself later commissioned Kroll Associates to investigate the affair, Nayirah told Kroll she had never been a hospital volunteer. She had “stopped by for a few minutes.” She had seen one baby outside its incubator “for no more than a moment.”
The witness who corroborated her at the United Nations Security Council, identified to the public as a Kuwaiti physician, was Dr. Ibraheem Behbehani, head of the Kuwait Red Crescent. He was a dentist. He had never set foot in the maternity ward.
In March 1991, with the war won, ABC News correspondent John Martin went to Kuwait. He interviewed the doctors and nurses who had stayed at Al-Adan Hospital through the occupation. No baby had been pulled from any incubator. No incubator had been stolen. No mass killing of newborns had occurred.
Amnesty International withdrew its 300-baby figure. John Healey, the executive director of Amnesty International USA, accused the Bush administration of opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement.
There were never any consequences for any of the actors involved in manufacturing the lie. Rep. Lantos kept his seat until his death. Rep. Porter also kept his. Robert Gray remained worldwide chairman of Hill & Knowlton Public Affairs. Lauri Fitz-Pegado was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994 as director general of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service.
When Robert Gray retired in the early 1990s, he bought the grandest remaining 1920s mansion on Millionaire’s Row in Miami Beach. He renamed the house Villa Crono. Crono – Cronos – the Greek titan who castrated his father, Uranus.
I knew Gray because, starting around 2011, I rented Villa Crono for several winters. At the time Robert was in his 90s. The home was filled with 50 years of political trophies – none bigger than the war he started.
Since 1991, the United States has spent trillions of dollars and uncounted American lives on the wars that followed our initial foray into the Middle East. The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. The 2003 invasion of Iraq. The 2011 intervention in Libya. The campaign against ISIS. And now the 2026 war with Iran. And yes, that’s when it all started. The American military presence in the Persian Gulf, before Gray took his Kuwaiti retainer, was essentially zero.
The reason the Iran war will not end is because Iran cannot defeat us. And we cannot defeat Iran. This is the perfect political operation – it’s a war neither side can win, that will cost trillions to continue fighting.
Much like global warming, it is a huge, unsolvable problem that the politicians can now use to terrify Americans and convince them to yield more and more of their sovereignty and their property to the State. The Iranian militia and their mullahs will, of course, do exactly the same.
