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2 Dec 18, 13 tweets, 5 min read
Here is a list of just a few of the crimes of George H. W. Bush:

in 1976, Bush’s CIA leaked a false report, which wrongly cleared Chile’s military dictatorship of involvement in a car bombing in Washington, which killed a Chilean dissident & an American.
consortiumnews.com/2016/09/21/geo…
In an act of pure aggression, George H. W. Bush instituted harsh sanctions on Panama in 1989 causing children to starve, then attempted a coup & finally invaded, dropping 400 bombs in 1 hour, leveling poor neighborhoods & killing 3,000 people.
During the invasion of Panama, US troops systematically torched homes, ran over civilians with tanks, executed civilians in the street & paid others to fill mass graves. Spanish photographer Juantxu Rodríguez of El País was shot and killed by an American soldier.
George H. W. Bush backed a 1991 coup in Haiti, overthrowing president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had instituted programs to help the poor. Following the coup, the Bush backed a military junta, which operated death squads killing 5,000 people.
Read More: democracynow.org/2004/3/17/hait…
George H. W. Bush began the ruthless sanctions regime against Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands. "We only remember him for death, pain, sadness, starvation, the destruction of infrastructure. Iraqis under siege ate dirt because of him.”
france24.com/en/20181201-bi…
George H. W, Bush utilized a massive propaganda campaign to get the US into the 1st Iraq war, which included fake testimonies of 'incubator babies' thrown to the floor, fake satellite photos & an astroturf group called Citizens for a free Kuwait.
commondreams.org/headlines05/11…
During the US war on Iraq, the US illegally bombed civilian infrastructure, buried 200 Iraqis alive, used cluster bombs, napalm & poisoned the country w/ depleted uranium & killed tens of thousands of Iraqis attempting to surrender
During the Iraq war, the US bombed a civilian bomb shelter killing hundreds of terrified Iraqi civilians.
The US also bombed a child formula plant, claiming it was a biological weapons facility.
Most infamously, the US slaughtered 1000 Iraqi troops & civilian refugees in a bombing spree that lasted 8 hours, known as the “Highway of Death”.
US troops also committed the Rumaila Massacre, violating a ceasefire to kill hundreds of Iraqi troops & open fire on a bus full of children.
Following the war, Bush encouraged Iraq’s Kurds & Shia to rise up against Saddam. It then stood aside, allowing Saddam’s military to slaughter 60,000 Iraqi Shia & 20,000 Kurds (forcing another 2 million Kurds to become refugees).
George H W Bush refused to apologize for the US blowing up an Iranian civilian airliner in 1988, killing nearly 300 people. It was a clear act of terrorism. This followed the Reagan/Bush handing over chemical weapons to Saddam for use against Iran. slate.com/news-and-polit…

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