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Date: Thu May 05 2011 - 02:50:15 EDT
Susan Rice’s Viagra<http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/04/30/susan-rices-viagra-hoax-the-new-incubator-babies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AWCBlog+%28Antiwar.com+Blog%29#>Hoax:
The New Incubator Babies
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/04/30/susan-rices-viagra-hoax-the-new-incubator-babies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AWCBlog+%28Antiwar.com+Blog%29
Eric Garris, April 30, 2011
| Antiwar Forum <http://antiwar-talk.com/>
On Thursday, US ambassador Susan Rice
announced<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iLwUJvihpEco3JY9pN7tS_TSVD3w?docId=CNG.884a11613242c5f5776f856c69831f72.10b1>that
Libyan government troops were being issued Viagra and told to rape as
a
terror weapon. She made the comment as part of a debate with another envoy
to highlight that “the coalition is confronting an adversary doing
reprehensible things.” Several diplomats said Rice provided no evidence for
the Viagra allegation, which they said was made in an attempt to persuade
doubters the conflict in Libya was not just a standard civil war but a much
nastier fight in which Gadhafi is not afraid to order his troops to commit
heinous acts.
However, today, MSNBC was
told<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42824884/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa>by
US military and intelligence officials that there is no basis for
Rice’s
claims. While rape has been reported as a “weapon” in many conflicts, the US
officials say they’ve seen no such reports out of Libya.
This sort of tactic is nothing new. It is reminiscent of the incubator
babies story <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_%28testimony%29>. In the
run-up to the first gulf war in 1990, a tearful Kuwaiti girl testified
before a congressional committee that she had witnessed Iraqi troops
removing premature
babies<http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/04/30/susan-rices-viagra-hoax-the-new-incubator-babies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AWCBlog+%28Antiwar.com+Blog%29#>from
incubators and stealing the incubators, levaing the babies to die. The
story was used to promote the attack on Iraq, and continues to be cited as a
reason for going to war in 1991.
However, the story has been widely
debunked<http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen1228.html>.
The girl who made the allegations turned out to the daughter of the Kuwaiti
ambassador the US, a resident of Washington, DC. Investigations by human
rights groups and others found no evidence that the event ever occurred, or
that the ambassdor’s daughter was even in Kuwait at the time.
My guess is that the Viagra story will still be repeated years from now as a
reason we attacked Libya.
Truth is the first casualty of war.
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