President George H.W. Bush has died, age 94.
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94's not a bad age to reach, and he got to go skydiving.
WaPo's obit is ... still a bit of a draft.
94's not a bad age to reach, and he got to go skydiving.
WaPo's obit is ... still a bit of a draft.
Mr. Bush died of SPECIFIC MEDICAL CAUSE OF DEATH, said/according to xxx. In 2012, he announced that he had vascular Parkinsonism, a condition that limited his mobility. His wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush, died on April 17.
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If you just separate them enough, people might not notice they are both in the same article.
Head of the CIA for the Iran-Contra affair, and pardoned those involved after lying about it.
Responsible for the 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act that would shatter Yugoslavia, supporting fascist parties and the rise of Tudjman in Croatia.
Responsible for the Highway of Death, where thousands of fleeing civillians in Kuwait were obliterated, to prevent terrorists from hiding among them.
If he was my own family, I'd understand if people were cheering.
I posted this in [chat] but he was the first President I remember in school, when I was in kindergarten. The teacher asked us, " Does anyone know who the President is?" A girl next to me proclaimed "Bush!" In true child fashion, I assumed they were talking about an actual bush.
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I was five when those words were spoken and it's what I most associate him with. I even had the general understanding that it meant there was a war about to start.
Very similar to my first hearing about a war in Iraq
Foreign policy was confusing back then
And that Desert Storm would be some sort of directed weather.
Letting a TV raise me and putting GI Joe on it at may have been a poor decision on my parents part.
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I mean, if anyone deserves it, he does.
Allegedly Colin Powell and a few others convinced him there was no path to viable nation building once they dismantled Saddams government.
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Incidentally, the first politics-related memory I have was him leaving office. Like, physically departing the White House on Marine 1. I was about three years old.
It would have been a quagmire
-Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney
Haven't heard anything about this, and that's too little to late for the kind of stuff he's been involved in and his son continued in the White House.
Public service is an honourable avenue to pursue, but how he did that both as the Director of the CIA and POTUS was abusive to the extreme, and he got away with it clean. Besides Reagan and Nixon he's probably one of the biggest influences on the toxic corruption which has infested the government for decades, which set the path for Trump coming to power.
RIP
There is no line that intersects Bush Sr and Trump.
Willie Horton
I may have given him too much benefit of the doubt, but he promised not to raise taxes and then did. Yes, it was at the insistence of Democrats who he was obliged to negotiate with, but he managed to put solving a problem over his own political future, in at least one instance.
If one felt an overwhelming urge to feel vengeful within 24 hours of the death announcement, I would mention that he only lived long enough to see the party he lead and shaped reject one of his sons in favor of Donald Trump, largely because of the colossal ineptitude of another son. He will never know how the story turns out.
So long and thanks for all the fish
http://time.com/5019182/george-hw-bush-groping-allegation/
...and it's not even close.
Now that's a bar.
An award right up there with:
- World’s tallest pygmy
- World’s fastest snail
- World oldest housefly
Didn't care much for him, doesn't matter now.
Manafort.
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People keep saying that he got to see his party elect Trump, but really this is the guy that got to see his party elect an Alzheimer ridden actor twice! And then to hagiograph said senile actor into the greatest president evah! Despite Reagans corrupt administration. I mean Iran/Contra was a way bigger scandal than Watergate and Reagan/Bush where neckdeep into it from the start. (Reagan incidentally was the first divorce elected to the presidency, despite running on "family values").
Then two years after he left Office, he got to see Newt Gingrich lead a Republican Revolution! You know, the same Newt Gingrich who lead the charge to impeach Clinton for lying about an extra-marital affair, while having an extra-marital affair.
So no, I don't think George H.W. Bush should have been all that surprised when the GOP made Trump President. If anything, he is probably kicking himself for not being more of a sleaze.
You know how we've been talking about Trump abusing the pardon power to prevent himself from being touched by the investigations surrounding him? What doesn't get talked about nearly enough is how Bush set that precedent on Christmas 1992, when he issued pardons to Cap Weinberger and other senior White House officials for their role in Iran-Contra, preventing us as a nation from having a full reckoning of how far the corruption went.
And yet, if you were to ask someone about abuse of pardons prior to 2016, the first thing that you would usually hear is "Marc Rich".
my family didn't own a TV and I thought the Gulf War was an Iraqi invasion of the Gulf of Mexico
I do expect it to be an incredible funeral though.
He'll get a funeral of a beloved king, like Reagan did.
This is a sentiment that I imagine many people share, and it's part of the problem we're having today - so many people don't know what supposedly "venerated" public figures really did. For me, Bush's Christmas pardons are an utter betrayal of the American people, as they were pretty clearly done to protect Bush (who knew that he would soon no longer have any real control over an investigation he openly attacked and covertly undermined - now doesn't that sound familiar?) Beyond that, he employed Lee Atwater, legendary ratfucker, and put out the racebaiting Willie Horton ad. And let's not forget that he was a serial sexual harasser, to the point that he had a fucking one-liner ready when he did it.