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This is a pretty trivial red herring. The fact of the matter is that they intentionally carried out an operation to kill as many non-combatants as they could, and this resulted in about 500 civilian deaths with hundreds more captured. That's already an atrocity by any objective metrics. Fixating on one point of possible propaganda about babies is just misdirection. Likewise Iraqi conduct in Kuwait was still insanely cruel even if the incubator incident never happened. Remember that the US, USSR, and PRC were in unanimous agreement that Iraq's actions were totally unacceptable and all voted in favor of intervention.Typical "atrocity propaganda", probably as old as warfare itself:
Recent examples include "babies thrown out of incubators", Viagra for Libya government force to rape rebels, Assad gassed his own people, etc.
Here a former CIA operative talks about "atrocity propaganda":
Story about the "incubator babies":
The truth about "beheaded babies":