> and neither Reagan nor George HW Bush had anything to do with it.
Pull the other one.
Former CIA Director George HW Bush and his best friends, the Saudis, had everything to do with it.
Bush was CIA director four years before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1989. Reference his activity in the CIA:
The challenge of repairing relations [with Congress]coincided with efforts to expand the role of Congress in overseeing the CIA. In July 1976, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence went into operation; intended to provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States.
Bush embraced the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and soon thereafter gave its members a comprehensive briefing of CIA covert action programs. Agency officials also educated the committee members about intelligence collection and production. Bush himself testified before Congress on 51 occasions.
If you want to tar George H.W. Bush, you had better be more specific.