Anyone remember the Kuwaiti Baby Incubators ZOMG from the run up to the first Gulf War?

The story was a total lie, and the supposed eyewitness was the daughter of the Kuwait Ambassador, but the news networks sort of glossed over that little detail and ran with it hard.

By the time the lie was comprehensively debunked, the neocons had already gotten the war they so craved.

Similarly the lies about Saddam's supposed WMDs and involvement in 9/11. Another lie, again exposed only after it no longer mattered..

Or the Libyan rape rooms. Or the Syrian poison gas attacks. All lies. But the very real truth of the Yemeni genocide is memory-holed, because it doesn't suit the Empire at the moment.

EDIT: what amazes me is that humans fall for it, over and over again.