One of the crimes referenced is the death of 120 Kuwaiti babies, removed from incubators which were taken to Iraq.
I thought that this had been debunked as propaganda. This was cited in testimony before Congress by an "eye-witness" who was later shown to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. It is my understanding that this part of her testimony was determined to be not true. Any responses ?
The debunker's "doctor" left Kuwait for some reason AFTER the war, which is odd since that's precisely when he would be most needed in Kuwait. I suspect, but can't prove, that he may have left Kuwait- if her was ever really there- because he had collaborated and was no longer welcome. He left for some reason... and the debunkers didn't bother to inquire why, nor did they seem to apply the same standards of suspicion to him as they applied to the witnesses to atrocities.
And in light of Iraq's bribery to get good press from journalists and so forth, I'm more suspicious of the debunkers.
They also tried to discredit the witness by claiming she said she saw more than she actually testified to (she had said she saw ONE case as I recall, and had heard other nurses say they had seen such incidents, too). The debunkers claim she said she witnessed hundreds but that's not what she said.
And the debunkers tried to discredit the witness with the old "guilt by association" argument - saying that since she was related to an important Kuwaiti diplomat her testimony was going to be false. But the witness's testimony was sworn; the debunker's quoted testimony was not, merely scraped off the palestinian street.
The debunkers have shown their dishonesty by trying to imply that ALL testimony from hundreds of witnesses to various acts was false based on their attempt to debunk one person's testimony. Even if one witness could be proven to be untruthful, it does not imply that everyone was, but you can't tell the debunker crowd that. They haven't been sucessful at debunking any others nor have they really tried. They focused on the one person instead, professing to believe that the incubator tale was the #1 thing which made people pro-war. It wasn't, of course, but they think it was significant. Perhaps it was just the atrocity which was easiest to target, given that the victims can't show their wounds once they're buried, and people who had had their kneecaps drilled through could. The debunkers wouldn't want to challenge a witness with the scars, of course. Of these there were many.