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by Neverchange 3362 days ago
"Lantos was a strong supporter of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. During the run-up to the war, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, of which Lantos was co-chairman, hosted a young Kuwaiti woman identified only as "Nurse Nayirah", who told of horrific abuses by Iraqi soldiers, including the killing of Kuwaiti babies by taking them out of their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold floor of the hospital. These alleged atrocities figured prominently in the rhetoric at the time about Iraqi abuses in Kuwait. The girl's account was later challenged by independent human rights monitors.[30]"

"Nurse Nayirah" later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States."

So basically what just happened with the gas attack and all.
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salimmadjd 3362 days ago
Yes...this is the same blueprint on Iraq 2, Libya and now Syria. With Syria they got even better by using social media. Example is the 7 year old who writes better twitter post than many native English speakers. She writes very touching yet concise and to the point twitter posts [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/world/middleeast/aleppo-t...

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3131s 3362 days ago
It's obvious that elements of US government in both parties have been captured by the business of war, for a long time now. I could argue until I'm blue in the face about this, but now I'm mostly just tired. These people are twisted and they need to pay for their crimes. I'll die happy if Bush, Obama, and Trump all spend the rest of their lives in prison. I don't believe a fucking thing from any of these bastards, their PR teams, their 'intelligence' agencies, or their media surrogates.
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ralmidani 3362 days ago
Your defamation of Bana, a girl who lived under siege, had her house bombed, narrowly escaped being killed and/or raped by Assad and/or Iran's death squads, and is probably still traumatized from the experience, is sheer depravity. Bana was photographed and interviewed inside and outside Aleppo.

That aside, Google translate can probably help you write "better twitter post" than many native English speakers. Bana's mother may also be helping her, but that doesn't make her fake.

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