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Aaaaannnnd ... there goes another kid, back to Russia
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 587073" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I have to admit that I am somewhat skeptical about this, and am not going to jump in to take sides against the parents. I was watching a documentary three nights ago where our government used a young person to stoke the fires to suit their political desires, and Russia <em>has made it perfectly clear</em> that they aren't interested in sending their unwanted children to the US at this point, for whatever reason.</p><p></p><p>Do you all remember the build-up to the first Iraqi war? A beautiful young Kuwaiti girl who called herself only Nayirah testified before Congress that she was an aid at a hospital and that Iraqi soldiers had come to the hospital and taken babies out of incubators, destroyed the incubators and left the babies to die on the floor, threatening to kill anyone who stopped them. This story was <em>pounded</em> into our heads and we had to at least believe that the Iraqis were baby killers - always a popular topic with the crowd that was in power in the USA at the time.</p><p></p><p>What do you know about this, though? Nayirah was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US, and her testimony was organized as part of the "Citizens for a Free Kuwait" ad campaign written by the US media relations company Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. It was pure war propaganda.</p><p></p><p>I agree that we shouldn't be adopting kids that are this old, and there are <em>plenty</em> of disabused babies in the USA that don't have to be torn halfway across the world to live with loving families here. But this story? I'm not buying into it hook, line, and sinker.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 587073, member: 99"] I have to admit that I am somewhat skeptical about this, and am not going to jump in to take sides against the parents. I was watching a documentary three nights ago where our government used a young person to stoke the fires to suit their political desires, and Russia [I]has made it perfectly clear[/I] that they aren't interested in sending their unwanted children to the US at this point, for whatever reason. Do you all remember the build-up to the first Iraqi war? A beautiful young Kuwaiti girl who called herself only Nayirah testified before Congress that she was an aid at a hospital and that Iraqi soldiers had come to the hospital and taken babies out of incubators, destroyed the incubators and left the babies to die on the floor, threatening to kill anyone who stopped them. This story was [I]pounded[/I] into our heads and we had to at least believe that the Iraqis were baby killers - always a popular topic with the crowd that was in power in the USA at the time. What do you know about this, though? Nayirah was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US, and her testimony was organized as part of the "Citizens for a Free Kuwait" ad campaign written by the US media relations company Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. It was pure war propaganda. I agree that we shouldn't be adopting kids that are this old, and there are [I]plenty[/I] of disabused babies in the USA that don't have to be torn halfway across the world to live with loving families here. But this story? I'm not buying into it hook, line, and sinker. [/QUOTE]
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