George HW Bush. Let's go down the list.
-His campaign was typical right-wing horse****: racist (Will Horton ad), faux Patriotism (flag burning amendment, mandatory Pledge of Allegiance), and two-faced accusations of liberal elitism (when he was born rich and his opponent was the son of middle class immigrants).
-The Gulf War: just like his son's war, built on a foundation of propaganda and lies and is littered with the blackened bodies of Iraqi civilian and children, burned alive by American weapons (
After 25 Years of U.S. Role in Iraq, Scars Are Too Stubborn to Fade). American forces destroyed Iraqi infrastructure as means of creating a bargaining chip.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...4a9-bfe7-084da4e38e41/?utm_term=.9393f430a406 “Some targets, especially late in the war, were bombed primarily to create postwar leverage over Iraq, not to influence the course of the conflict itself. Planners now say their intent was to destroy or damage valuable facilities that Baghdad could not repair without foreign assistance. … Because of these goals, damage to civilian structures and interests, invariably described by breifers during the war as ‘collateral’ and unintended, was sometimes neither.” The loss of infrastructure resulted in catastrophic loss of civilian life.
-His involvement and knowledge of the Iran-Contra Affair and his issuing of pardons to those involved.
-His escalation of the horrific War on Drugs.
I don't celebrate this man's life, nor do I honor him in death.
