What the Fake Gulf War Atrocity Allegations Can Teach Us About Ukraine

Americans should reflexively distrust every claim about “Putin’s war crimes.”

On October 10, 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only as “Nayirah”—to protect her from reprisals ostensibly—testified before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus about what she had seen on a recent trip to Kuwait:

“I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the children to die on the cold floor. It was horrifying.”

The visceral image of Iraqi troops butchering infants in hospitals seized the political world by storm.

More than 30 million Americans saw footage of the testimony that night on ABC’s “Nightly News” and NBC’s “Nightline.” Seven senators cited the killing of infants by Iraqi troops in their speeches in defense of war with Iraq.

President Bush referenced Nariyah’s testimony of baby killings more than six times in public speeches about the war.

Amnesty International initially supported Nariyah’s testimony. 

It was all a lie.

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