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U.S President George H.W. Bush and staff brief the press in the Rose Garden at the White House about the visit of Cheney and Powell who had just returned from the Middle East prior to commencement of Desert Storm, the 1991 ground war with Iraq, February 11, 1991 in Washington, DC. Standing next to Bush is Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (L), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, Vice President Dan Quayle. In the far back, (L-R) are National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft (L, holding notebook), CIA Director Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Jim Baker. (Photo: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
As corporate media gloss over the former U.S. president's record with fawning tributes and sanitized obituaries, some observers took to social media to highlight key aspects of the record and legacy of George H.W. Bush, who died Friday at 94.
Among the 41st president's acts during his political life Twitter users noted were his role in the Gulf War, Central America, and the Iran-Contra affair.
While it's fair to offer condolences to Bush's family members as they grieve, "As a public figure with lots of innocent blood on his hands, his record has to be examined without any whitewashing," asserts The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan.
George HW Bush was an unrepentant war criminal. May his many victims across the globe Rest In Peace.
I remember feeling a deep sense of shame and anger when I visited the Amiriyah shelter in Iraq. George HW Bush killed more than 400 civilians huddled there on February 13, 1991. These are the crimes we should be discussing today.
George HW Bush systematically attacked the civilian infrastructure in Iraq. He turned hospitals into death rows for infants. He widely used depleted uranium, causing cancer rates to skyrocket. He made Iraq a mass graveyard. And the killing hasn’t stopped since.
I sadly don't have time today to pay homage to George HW Bush, so I'll rely on the 1992 statement of Lawrence Walsh, the Special Counsel investigating the Iran-Contra crimes, when Bush pardoned his criminal aides & thus ended all investigations into Bush's own grave crimes #RIP41
Walsh: Bush 41's pardons of his own close aides, several of whom had been convicted of lying to investigators, "demonstrates that powerful people with powerful allies can commit serious crimes in high office -- deliberately abusing the public trust without consequence."
Using a bogus legal claim of "self-defence", George H.W. Bush invaded Panama killing an estimated 500 people.
AIDS deaths were increasing during Bush's presidency. He responded by reducing research funding, promoting abstinence education, reducing safer sex education, and banning HIV+ people from entering the USA.#RIPGHWB pic.twitter.com/Py8K0WcBkm
This Christmas it will be 29 years since George HW #Bush ordered the US invasion of Panama with the sole objective to arrest Noriega, the former CIA agent who “knew too much”. Nearly 3000 civilians were killed.
All the fake #Resistance tweeters eulogizing George HW Bush should be reminded that Bush’s disgusting, racist and effective Willie Horton ad was the blueprint for all of Trump’s overt racism. Yes, the genteel Bush brought race baiting back into the open
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Poppy Bush started the war on Iraq in 1990. It hasn't ended yet...
In dirty war in El Salvador, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter were murdered in 1989 by U.S.-backed Salvadoran security forces. George H.W. Bush's admin defended country's dictatorship in immediate aftermath nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4… #RIP41
Let's not forget role George H.W. Bush played as CIA director in Operation Condor, CIA-backed operation by right-wing dictators in South America to target & kill dissidents. @Consortiumnews founder Robert Parry reported on state terrorism in 2000: consortiumnews.com/2016/09/21/geo… #RIP41
Remember when President Jimmy Carter was not re-elected in 1980? An "October surprise" engineered by CIA-within-the-CIA helped ensure Carter was not president for second term and Reagan won. George H.W. Bush was implicated. More here: consortiumnews.com/2013/08/26/a-c… #RIP41
Pres. George H.W. Bush also invaded Panama in act of aggression to overthrow country's government in 1989. Thousands were killed, buried in mass graves hidden from Panamanians. All documented in "Panama Deception": youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6yVN… #RIP41
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