Hilary Henkin Quotes

The title infuriated many who thought is was too much like a monarchy. For an example, see {586765}.

Steward, then a retired Army PR man, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, was concerned that Kuwait a wealthy oil country controlled by a small royal family, grossly undemocratic, where women could not even vote, would not be a cause that Americans would be willing to suffer causalities over. He was unaware at the time but a huge campaign, much of it fraudulent, was being orchestrated by the giant PR firm of Hill & Knowlton. That together with the low casualties and the real atrocities that the Iraqis committed, carried the day.

She was testifying about the atrocities of the Iraqis in their invasion of Kuwait. However, this was completely fraudulent and deliberated orchestrated, the result of a huge campaign orchestrated by the Kuwait Embassy and Hill & Knowlton, America’s largest PR firm. She was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States. When she testified, she was only identified by her first name “Nayirah” with the explanation that if her last name were disclosed, her family in Kuwait would be the victims of Iraqi reprisals. She appeared all over America whipping up support for the First Iraq War. The image of the Kuwaiti babies being left to die on the hospital floor became the icon for support for the war. Ironically, there was more than ample justification for America’s role in the war without making up fictions like this. However this quotation to many is an example of the fraudulent schemes and lies that war advocates will resort to in order to manipulate public opinion.

Attacking FDR by pandering to anti-Semites and falsely claiming that a Jewish financier, Bernard Baruch ran the government: The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.

The band was created by an act of Congress in 1798.

Also attributed to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

He was a Republican who served a Democratic President to the distress of some of the extreme right wingers of the Republican Party.

Although a right wing conservative, he shared the view of many liberals that it costs so much money and needs so many rich contacts to raise enough money to run for President, that the reality is beyond the reach of ordinary Americans. Since Harry Truman, all the Presidents have been affluent, and most millionaires.