Bush I = definition of milquetoast.
Bush I thought, finally, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the UN could fulfill its mission of promoting peace and human rights in the world.
In particular, neither Russia nor China vetoed the UN resolution authorizing the use of force to evict Iraq from Kuwait.
And, this UN resolution is what Bush asked Congress to approve.
Notice how limited was this resolution, merely to evict Iraq from Kuwait. You don’t f’n need the UN to authorize self-defense; or, to be aided by others in self-defense. But, Bush I was such a globalist he deferred self- and mutual-defense to the UN.
Or, maybe, he was taking a chance on cooperation by the great powers to invigorate the UN’s pursuit of peace and human rights in the world.
Well, Bush I was wrong.
Instead of bringing the reign of Saddam Hussein to an end, Bush I’s calling off the dogs when we had the bastards on the run, enabled Hussein to remain in power.
By remaining in power, Hussein continued to terrorize the people of his country, and we continued with sanctions that impoverished the country.
Later, with Bush II, we got into another war in Iraq, and then an occupation. We saw the rise of Al Qaida and then the rise of ISIS. Following an invasion of Iraq by ISIS, Iraq fell under the rule of Iran.
Bush I should be happy he’s “under-appreciated,” because if people focused on him, he would be recognized as having made one of the worse mistakes in U.S. history.
In war, said MacArthur, there is no substitute for victory. At a terrible cost, we totally defeated Japan. Then, MacArthur ruled Japan as military governor like a god. Over time, Japan was reconstructed as a prosperous and democratic country.
We might have accomplished such a thing in Iraq; but, no, Bush I chose a negotiated peace over victory.
If a war isn’t important enough to win, it shouldn’t be fought in the first place.
IBTZ
Just kidding, Merry Christmas.
Ross Perot lost the election for us. Never forget that.
He lost me when he took office with his this will be a “kinder and gentler administration” speech. Well FU George, you start out by dissing Reagan, in effect making it clear you won’t continue his policies. That was my first thought when I heard it. I knew we were screwed, and I was right.
He was not loyal to Reagan, he was appointed by the Deep State to rein Reagan in.
It wasn’t just “read my lips”.. he was an evil globaloid lump of human $**t who was responsible for a great deal of global turmoil and suffering.
The Bushes fk’d America and the world good. Hopefully the POS is slow-burning, very painfully, in hell... where most Bushes should go.
The Bush Crime Family are the wort backstabbers in history.
Great war hero...
But mediocre as president due to his surrender on taxes...
Overall, compared to the communist drivel from 1976-1980, 2008-2016, and 2030-2024, and the turncoat from 2000-2008, he was GREAT...
Gag me with a spoon.
No Barf Alert?
As far as being a good vice president, anyone can do that. Pence was a pretty good vice president. That is in no way historic. Bush the First started a war in Iraq which carried on through Clinton years and all the way into Bush 2 years. He put us in Somalia on his way out the door. He compromised with Democrats in a bipartisan way which always means good for Democrats and raised taxes.
Maybe after he has passed we might polish the turd of his presidency.
Loyal to Reagan? You’re as deluded as this article.
Baker was House of Saud, period, tasked with keeping the price of oil at whatever Faud demanded, and not only that, but maintain a level petrodollar as the sole currency, without a care to how that compromised Joe Sixpack's morbidly stagnant wages.
"People could argue till kingdom come whether Bush Snr and his secretary of state James Baker ever promised Mikhail Gorbachev that there would be no Nato expansion across eastern Europe towards the Russian borders. That was supposedly in exchange for the Soviet leader’s consent for German reunification. Historians may eventually be able to tell us conclusively one way or another."
This probably sealed the fate of a unified Iraqi government because this deception and inaction was so egregious it overcame millennia of animosity between the Semites of Assyria/Iraq and the Caucasians/Aryans of Persia/Iran. The abandonment of the “Swamp Arabs” by him in their hour of crisis evoked a deathless memory which crippled subsequent efforts. Had the United States never promoted the revolt or behaved with integrity when it did sponsor it, then Muqtada al-Sadr would have never had a forum to become one of the most influential religious and political figures in Iraq, despite not holding an official title.
This act of intellectual dwarfism leading to negligent homicide reminds me of the Warsaw Uprising. The Polish Resistance rose at Joseph Stalin’s encouragement as the Red Army closed in on Warsaw. The army then stopped as the Germans regrouped and demolished the city in the next two months. The Nazis inflicted nearly 200,000 casualties in defeating resistance fighters and slaughtering civilians mainly by mass execution.
Therefore, Bush accomplished through negligent homicide the same result Stalin achieved by premediated murder. In both cases individuals who could have been vital in the effort to establish a new government were eliminated.
Loyal to Reagan in what universe?
Reagan detested globalist Bush.
OMG the Bush globalist dynasty, who posted this utter garbage???
Dubya had speed dial access to his father. Are they trying to convince us that Dubya never consulted his father at all? I find that notion to be hard to even contemplate, let alone accept.
Meh. Mediocrity by action. Inside the insiders of the Great Swamp.
I blame him for not enforcing border security that we were supposed to get in 1986. Illegal immigration increased bigly during his administration.