Naira

a real hot, fun girl who likes to party.
kind of s-xy-smart as well.
f-cking gorgeous.
cool girlss, like naira. and ira. and nikita.
naira is the nigerian currency
i got twenty thousand naira on me, how much you got?
a fake ident-ty that the daughter of the kuwaiti amb-ssador -ssumed in a congressional hearing in 1990, after the iraqi invasion of kuwait, before american intervention.

the powers that be first coached a 15-year-old kuwaiti girl, identified only at the time as naira, to testify before congress that she had seen iraqi soldiers remove kuwaiti babies from hospital incubators. “naira” claimed to be a refugee who had been working as a volunteer in a kuwaiti hospital throughout the first few weeks of the iraqi occupation. she said that she had seen them take babies out of the incubators, take the incubators, and leave the babies “on the cold floor to die.”

naira’s emotional testimony riveted human rights organizations, the news media, and the nation. that incident was cited by six members of the u.s. senate as reasons to go to war with iraq.

the propaganda effort worked but later the entire episode was exposed as an outright lie and the girl turned out to be the daughter of the kuwaiti amb-ssador to the us. no matter that it was all just a staged stunt to sway people’s opinions, it helped to pave the way for all the misery and death to follow. they gave those emotional chains a big, hard yank.

i can’t prove it, but i always thought that this is what inspired the movie “wag the dog.”
boo hoo hoo, i can’t stand the thought of those babies dying on the cold floor, like that nurse naira told us. those iraqis sure are meanies. we americans just have to do something…