Bob Uecker Quotes

As Secretary of State, Powell was going to address the UN Security Council on the 5th and he was coordinating his speech with the other agencies of the government. His criterion was that he only wanted to make accusations that were backed up by incontrovertible evidence. However, VP Richard Cheney and his aide, Scooter Libby, kept inserting an accusation that Iraq was involved with and supported Al Qaeda. This was one of the many speculations that those who wanted to justify attacking Iraq kept using as Domestic propaganda. When Powell asked for proof or intelligence reports and none could be provided, he removed the accusation from the speech explaining why. However, at the last minute, Cheney and his staff put the accusation back in, and that triggered the quotation. Unfortunately, Powell was so busy fending off totally absurd accusations, that he accepted the CIA assurances {79468} that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons that were about to be operationalized and never heard from those who questioned the credibility of the sources for the basic accusation. Powell had great trust among the diplomats of the world then gave the United States version to the Security Council and justified our coming invasion of Iraq. But the intelligence report, despite the assurances of the CIA and the Vice President, was false and Iraq not only was not close to a nuclear weapon but he had no program at all at that time to try and develop one. Powell resigned and his credibility about the world was ruined as he was then seen as just another lying politician.

A Russian communist official was touring the U. S. The congressman took him to a modern supermarket in the Washington DC area and the Russian accused him of having it built for his tour.

They never met. Harrison lost to Barkley by a single vote. Harrison’s fellow Senator from Mississippi was Theodore Bilbo, 1877-1947, a notorious racist and demagogue and Harrison would have nothing to do with Bilbo. However, in 1937 Harrison was a candidate for the Senate Majority Leader and appeared tied with Alben Barkley. Bilbo sent word to Harrison that if he would meet with him, Bilbo would vote for Harrison.