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Edward Bernays: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Story of Nurse Nurea and Saddam Hussein

The story really did pull at emotional heartstrings. Nurse Nurea was speaking to, was it the UN? I honestly don't know where you're speaking. We've got it in the episode but in her speech which was disseminated widely across the Western world and the lead up to the Gulf War. This nurse was saying that Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces were doing something ruthless. It was babies. Yeah, babies and incubators taking out and letting them die. The quote unquote nurse was not a nurse. She was the daughter of an ambassador. There wasn't much fallout from this. From this crazy, you know at the risk of sounding callous, it's kind of a

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