Remembering History: False Testimony Triggers Persian Gulf War On the eve of the Persian Gulf War in 1990, a Kuwaiti nurse named Nayirah issued a stirring testimony before the Congressional Human Rights Congress: She said she had witnessed invading Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from their hospital incubators. The story was moving and widely-shared—several senators, as well as President George H. W. Bush, repeated the story in the days leading up to the launch of Operation Desert Shield.

False Testimony Triggers Persian Gulf War On the eve of the Persian Gulf War in 1990, a Kuwaiti nurse named Nayirah issued a stirring testimony before the Congressional Human Rights Congress: She said she had witnessed invading Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from their hospital incubators. The story was moving and widely-shared—several senators, as well as President George H. W. Bush, repeated the story in the days leading up to the launch of Operation Desert Shield.

False Testimony Triggers Persian Gulf War On the eve of the Persian Gulf War in 1990, a Kuwaiti nurse named Nayirah issued a stirring testimony before the Congressional Human Rights Congress: She said she had witnessed invading Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from their hospital incubators. The story was moving and widely-shared—several senators, as well as President George H. W. Bush, repeated the story in the days leading up to the launch of Operation Desert Shield.