Cleita (71,696 posts)
8... However, I keep seeing that young Kuwaiti girl talking about babies being thrown out of incubators by Iraqi soldiers that turned out not to be true.
If you care to talk to the Kuwaitis or the advance MI people who went in during Gulf I, you'd find that stuff every bit as bad and worse happened, particularly to young Kuwaiti women, and hundreds of missing (Taken away by the Iraqis
after the one-sided fighting ended) who are still mourned there. At the time the atrocities became known, however, US press coverage was already switching to how mean we were being to the fleeing Iraquis on the 'Highway of death,' so Americans generally remained utterly ignorant of the murder and other horrors inflicted on the Kuwaiti PWs and civilians.
Gulf I was a perfect example of combining excellent military capability and operations with a complete absence of overarching strategy. So much political effort was expended on getting together a BS coalition that was mostly just along for the ride that virtually nothing went into thinking about what to do about Saddam himself and his regime once his army got its ass kicked.