1/ Look, no need to be cruel or overly shitty about it, but all this #GeorgeHWBush hagiography is nonsense. It is only bc of the current grifter-in-chief that he looks decent by comparison. Yes, he was no doubt a better human being than Trump...
2/...but this is a guy who orchestrated a drug buy, by having cops entrap a young dealer across from the WH, just to prop up the racist war on drugs...
3/ ...and a guy who replaced Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas, and the guy who gave us Gulf War I, on bullshit pretense. Putting aside what that war did to Iraqis, on a purely self-interested level, does anyone still believe it made the U.S. anything but LESS safe?...
4/ ...after all, it was the stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia that most enraged bin Laden and al-Qaeda. That was the spark for them, the linchpin of their hatred for the U.S. And um, yeah so that sorta led to some shit...
5/ ..like 9/11 & the wars we launched in response to it, which have left the region & world less safe. So although al-Qaeda grew initially from the Mujahadeen which Reagan armed in Afghanistan, it was Bush I, with "Operation Desert Storm" and troops in Saudi that lit the fuse...
6/ So while folk are talking bout what a great person & POTUS Poppy Bush was, remember, greatness is not relative. Neither is morality. There are degrees of bad. His was of a lower temp (or tighter angle, depending on your preferred image for degrees), but still...
