by Enver Masud
A key foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama, Samantha Power, was forced to
resign today after describing Hillary Clinton as a monster. Obama is better
off without Power.
We know Power primarily from her television appearances on the subject
of Darfur. We don't recall her mentioning the Chinese oil concessions (desired by
U.S. companies), and the diminishing farmlands in the north (attributed to
global warming) which caused herders there to migrate south where they came
into conflict with farmers.
Nor did Power mention that among the 200,000 Darfurians who have died, a
World Food Program report says that
about 20% died due to violence, and 80% died mainly from starvation and from
diseases.
Meanwhile, she appeared to ignore the far worse
crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More people have died there
than in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Darfur combined - 5.4 million by some
estimates.
The late Senator Lantos played a major role in the Darfur
deception, just like he did in the deception leading to the first Gulf
War.
A high point of the public relations campaign against Iraq, was the
testimony of a Kuwaiti refugee, before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus
on October 15, 1990, who told of Iraqi troops removing over 300 babies from
incubators in Kuwait City hospital, and dumping them on the floor to die.
On January 6, 1992, John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine and
author of "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War,"
revealed in a New York Times Op-Ed that "Nayirah," the alleged refugee, was
the daughter of Saud al-Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the United States, and
that Hill and Knowlton, a large public relations firm, had helped prepare
her testimony, which she had rehearsed before video cameras in the firm's
Washington office.
"The chairmen of the Congressional group, Tom Lantos, a California Democrat,
and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican, explained that Nayirah's
identity would be kept secret to protect her family from reprisals in
occupied Kuwait" wrote MacArthur.
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