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Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.bushcheney2000.org/BushLegacyIndex.htm">Bush
Family's Cruel Legacy</A>
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Highlights of 41st President George Herbert Walker Bush's (1924-) Foreign
Policy):
Top Author's Warning
(sources: Deterring Democracy, Noam Chomsky, 1992, Hill and Wang; and Killing
Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, William Blum,
1995, Common Courage Press)
Summary:
President George Herbert Walker Bush starts two wars and betrays a desperate
population.
(Author's note: by criticizing the conduct of the US military here I am only
criticizing the men in charge, not US soldiers in the middle of it. Here I
am criticizing the president, George Bush.)
* In 1988, while successfully campaigning for the presidency, uses perhaps
the most negative campaign in U.S. history. The racially divisive "Willie
Horton" ads are an effort to paint his opponent as soft on crime.
* In 1989, the Bush administration invades friendly Panama, ostensibly to
arrest Manuel Noriega, who has been on the CIA payroll since the early 1970s.
* According to human rights groups this invasion kills between 3,000 and
4,000 people. In addition, U.S. forces uses F-117A stealth fighters in combat
for the first time, helicopters fire at buildings with only civilian
occupants, a U.S. tank destroys a public bus (killing 27 passengers), at
least a hundred civilian residences aree burned to the ground with many
apartments destroyed.
* In 1990, old US ally Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. This is undoubtably
a crime. However, as crimes go it compares favorably with Bush's invasion
of Panama and Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon (with 20,000 killed in the
latter.)
Afterwards, Iraq wakes up to the fact that their old friend Mr. Bush is ready
and willing to go to war over Kuwait. The Iraqis make several very sensible
overtures for peace. The US mainstream media obediently does not report any
of them.
One of the peace proposals Iraq offered was to pull out of Kuwait in five
days. Bush says no, it has to be three. No more negotiation was permitted.
(All those Iraqi people had to die because Bush could not offer a four-day
pull-out?)
After five months of thwarting this kind of diplomacy Bush starts the Gulf
War. (Remember also we had no treaties to defend Kuwait. And, we were not
at war with Iraq until Bush attacked Baghdad.)
* The early "war" is an attack on Iraq's civilians and their
infrastructure. (Targets include the power, sewage and water systems,
hospitals and schools.) This is all done to punish "Saddam".
* After bombing Baghdad to smithereens the second part of the war began as
Bush gave the orders to mercilessly bomb defenseless Iraqi soldiers in the
desert.
* In addition, many Iraqi troops were buried alive by U.S.-led forces
utilizing tanks with plows attached. Hundreds more Iraqi troops fleeing the
continued shelling were shot from behind.
* A deliberate bombing of a civilian air raid shelter in Baghdad kills
1,500 civilians, many of whom were women and children.
* Throughout the conflict the Bush administration rebuffs efforts by
moderate Iraqi generals interested in obtaining help in order to topple
Saddam Hussein, and restore democracy in Iraq.
* Immediately following the War what was left of Iraq's Republican Guard
suppresses a Kurdish rebellion that Bush personally encouraged.
Approximately 25,000 civilians are killed while Norman Schwartzkopf, in the
general area, signs autographs for his fans.
(Even the Washington Post, always in the service of US militarism,
occasionally admits that Bush actually encouraged the Kurdish rebellion; the
second part of that story is he went fishing while it was being punished.)
It is the author's opinion that Bush was stark-raving mad at this time,
looking into the TV camera with an irrationally venomous hatred; and pursuing
a needless, totally one-sided conflict as if he had to have total victory not
just over Hussein but every man, woman and child in Iraq.
* * *
Author's note: George W. Bush cannot be held responsible for the cruelty of
his father.
Author's point: However, Bush is running in part on his father's record.
Name-recognition is his appeal. If we are supposed to recognize the name it
makes sense we should be entitled discuss the namesake's record.
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