Winston Churchill Quotes
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
The United States had publicly accused Iran of providing explosives weapons to the Iraqi insurgents who were killing each other and American soldiers in their Sunni-Shiia Islamic internecine civil war. The Iraq War was going poorly for America and the vast majority of the American public was opposed to the George W. Bush increase in troops fighting in Iraq. Many Americans suggested that Bush might be accusing Iran at that point in time (Iran had been doing it for several years) in order to distract public opinion from the bad news of more bombings and killings in Iraq. The Iranian president was more definitive in his accusation. Bush’s spokespeople claimed that they have just assembled better evidence which accounted for the recent announcement.
Kennedy was a relatively new president and the Bay of Pigs Operation was prepared and planned by the CIA under the Eisenhower Administration. The president assumed that the intelligence was correct and there would be an uprising of the Cuban people when as soon as the landing took place. That was all wrong and the Cubans actually supported Castro and the operation was a disaster. Kennedy never trusted the CIA after that.
He was referring to the fact that President Elect, Donald Trump, who argued against the findings of the CIA and the FBIK who in separate analyses had stated that Russia had hacked into the computers of the DemocraticNatonal Committee and released the private e-mails in the midst of the 2016 Presidential election. Trump, who had a track record of rejecting scientific and professional studies and research in favor of his own perception and intuation, was one of teh few leading politicans, computer security experts, and business leaders who opposed a Congressional investigation of the details.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
