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Signed the Americans With Disabilities Act, signed the Clean Air Act, broke his pledge and raised taxes on the rich and, and was the only Southern Republican in the House to vote for the Civil Rights Act.
burrowowl
(17,596 posts)Iran-Contra the killed 200,000 to 250,000 Guatemalan Indians, we could go on!
a la izquierda
(11,782 posts)Listen, I'm all for slamming GHWB for his despicable Latin America actions. But Iran-Contra was Nicaragua, not Guatemala. Contras were counter revolutionaries, becuase the revolutionaries won in Nicaragua.
Guatemala, in 1986 (the year of the scandal), was starting to wind down- not done by any stretch, but calming down some.
Now, Reagan and GHWB were buddy-buddy with the Guatemalan military government, especially Efraín Ríos Montt...but Iran-Contra was a separate matter.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)following the Iraqi invasion of a sovereign state which was condemned by not just the US but the UK, France, China and the Soviet Union in a unanimous Security Council resolution. The first Gulf War was legitimate and waged for good reason (unlike the 2003 Iraq War).
moondust
(19,896 posts)I heard that for years afterward. Some people blamed GHWB for not ordering troops on into Baghdad to get Saddam as long as they were there. Of course that wasn't part of the coalition mandate but the hard-liners didn't care about no damn mandate! I suspected "finishing the job" was part of the reason GWB/Cheney wanted to invade Iraq in 2003; it had been eating at them for more than a decade.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)grey and he is on the dark side.
JCMach1
(27,540 posts)Had Bush Sr.s fingerprints all over them.
a la izquierda
(11,782 posts)Ask my students what I think of bush and Reagan's policies.
orleans
(33,949 posts)well, we all know what happened then