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Article: Country first? Randy Scheunemann isn't the only foreign agent with McCain's ear.(Insiders)(on Senator John McCain, Charlie Black, public relation firms, and America's foreign policy)
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- The American Conservative
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- October 6, 2008
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It was the story that dared Americans not to care--Iraqi soldiers yanking babies out of incubators in Kuwait and leaving them to die. The grisly tale turned out not to be true, but it was the hook that drew the American public into the Persian Gulf War and earned the PR wizards at Hill & Knowlton every dime of the $10.7 million they took from the emir of Kuwait.
Hill & Knowlton, backed by the first Bush administration and sympathetic lawmakers eager to protect oil interests in Kuwait, orchestrated a hearing before the House Human Rights Caucus. The Oct. 10, 1990 event featured a witness-the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.--who hadn't seen the ...