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George H.W. Bush was a white supremacist war criminal-as VP to Reagan, he was key in flooding inner-cities w drugs, part of a genocide on Black/Latino pple He funded death squads, trained torturers & waged brutal imperialist wars. The crimes are too many to count

Here are a few:
The US Invasion of Panama 1989-1990

W/ brutality & overwhelming force, this was a precursor for US invasions to come. George H.W. Bush argued for a New World Order: the US would use its brute force to enforce its role as the only superpower in the world.
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The First Iraq War 1991, Operation Desert Storm: Mass Murder From A Safe Distance

The US coalition dropped 88,000 tons of bombs, equivalent to over 7 Hiroshimas. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, civilians as well as soldiers, were killed or injured.
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The Crack Epidemic Created by the the CIA

Under Reagan/Bush, the CIA funded a bloody & brutal counter-revolutionary war in Nicaragua by flooding the inner-cities with crack. Then launched new invasions by the police in a so-called "war on drugs."
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Bush continued the Southern Strategy begun under Nixon: running for president by FOSTERING deeply rooted white supremacy. Bush ran the now-famous Willie Horton ad to stoke fear of ALL Black people & promote the DEADLY myth of the "dangerous Black criminal"
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The U.S. "No Fly" Zone over Iraq 1991-2003

After enforcing this in the name of protecting the Kurdish people, Bush provided helicopters & other material used to gas the Kurdish people all as part of trying to tighten US control on the region.
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Sanctions on Iraq—A Legitimized Act of Mass Slaughter

Begun under Bush & continued under Bill & Hillary Clinton, these resulted in economic collapse, extreme lack of food & medicine, mass contaminated water.

1 million Iraqi's died, half of them children!
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The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. Negotiations begun under Bush

This was a predatory treaty whose effect was to ratchet up the cruel & reckless plunder of Mexico & its people inflicting vulture-like destruction to millions of peasant farmers.
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Now watch the Republican Fascists AND the Imperialist Democrats all celebrate this monster.

This whole system - and those who rule it - are illegitimate. It must be overthrown!

#GeorgeHWBush
#AmericaWasNeverGreat
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