Not sure what our nearly 30 year project in Iraq has achieved. The country now is simply a colony of Iran.
There might be some darker things about GHW Bush that most of us don’t know about.
Bush’s loss to Clinton was handing the reins of power to his “other son.” All part of the globalist plan.
The Berlin Wall fell before Bush had been in office for a year, the collapse of the Soviet Union had been going on for some time. Dukakis would have done nothing, which is what Bush did.
He recognized the danger of Iraq. Saddam Hussein had the fourth most powerful army in the world and was a menace to his neighbors and a murderer of millions.
Bush's response to Iraq's military buildup before the invasion on the Kuwait border in 1990 was muddy at best.
Saddam was no puny enemy, as people made him to be for the purposes of dishonest politics. Aside from the 2 million he killed in the region, he was also cutting 10k and 25k checks to suicide bombers in Israel. His attempted assassination of by then former President GHW Bush showed that he was capable of trying to transfer or spread such havoc to America and GHWB's son, 43, was right for calling the danger what it was.
And yet it took another decade to remove him from power and that removal caused a vacuum that has been filled in the region by Iran which is even more hostile to the West than Saddam's Iraq.
GHW Bush voted for Hillary. Hard for me to think much of him even though I would like too.
Kemp should have been Reagan’s VP.
Also please note that Bush I stuck it's nose into Somalia in Christmas of 1992, which was exacerbated by Clinton and now we have tons of Somalian refugees flooding Minnesota and Maine who refuse to assimilate.
Thanks for posting something positive.
One of my deepest complaints about Free Republic is that it is so cynical about historical conservatism.
Bush Sr. was great in his time.
For those who are around 5 years after Trump is done, there will be people on Free Republic ripping him to shreds for not being whoever the 2029 standard of conservatism is.
That really should not matter. Our side would do well to develop some unity and applaud the things we DO like with regard to the historically conservative things Presidents do.
The appointment of Thomas and sticking with him is probably one of the most important things to happen to the Supreme Court for conservatives — next to Scalia.
Bush broke the Vietnam syndrome that was one of the most important dogmas of the Left that demonized and demoralized our armed forces. Bush won a major war for the first time since Vietnam. That was a huge shift in our hard power to the positive.
Thank you. It’s well considered and written. I’ll reread and contemplate the words with more focus.
Comment 22 on this thread makes an interesting point about the tax cuts, basically that he was too trusting, with some added info that helps make the case.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3709909/posts
I wish all presidents had seen the hippie slime for the Sodom and Gomorrah corrosion of society that it was. Most didn’t and didn’t care to muddy themselves fighting hedonist loons. We need to now. They should have then (if people knew what kind of people were behind the war against Nixon the country would have rallied to his defense - see also https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/27/obituaries/baruch-korff-81-rabbi-and-defender-of-nixon.html). That doesn’t take away from the good they did.
Chekhov's Dud.
Don't keep us guessing.
A history of George H.W. Bush's relationship with Planned Parenthood
“One of the chief co-sponsors of the Title X statute, which allocates millions of federal tax dollars to Planned Parenthood and other family planning organizations, was Rep. George H.W. Bush (R-TX)”
Pissed away Reagan’s legacy, I have no regard for the man.
I thought he would continue Ronald Reagan’s policies.
He didn’t.
At some point, I started to believe that GHWB didn’t really like Ronald Reagan.
That’s when I gave up on him, and considered him just another president.
So this is what the world looks like when one uncritically consumes a lifetime of New World Order propaganda. Scary to think some people actually believe this stuff for real.
In the real world, GHWB may have been one of humanity’s most dangerous enemies. Sadly, we will never know the full extent of the damage he did nor the full reasons why he did it.
Anyone who quotes the Bible to justify this man's leadership is a moron.
It’s rumored he ran the CIA op to kill JFK in Dallas.
We know for a fact he pushed for the NWO, one world government. This alone means he was evil.
Sorry. Could not continue past first sickening paragraph. Soviet Union collapsed under Reagan, Walesa and Thatcher, Prime Minister of Britain.
What the Bushy globalist did was junketeer around the crumbling Soviet Union TRYING TO PROP IT UP by dissuading seceeding
“Republics” from LEAVING, or at best, STICK TOGETHER ECONOMICALLY. Bad for globalist business don’t you know?
The Bushes were BAD presidents - BETTER than the garbage the Dems put up, but bad nonetheless.
FURTHER, the Media HATED them because they thought they too conservative.
NOW, people like Google and Gannett are praising them because they broke with tradition to attack GENUINE CONSERVATIVE Donald Trump.
So, please, stop the garbage. I get it it, you hate Trump too and love RINOS like the Bushes, but stop it already.
He should have vetoed that tax hike forced upon him by the demo_rats. Since he did not, he made us suffer through 8 years of leftist hillary clinton as president.
JoMa
The world is a much better place without the death and despair the Bush family wrought. Sick of hearing about this POS and his family of retarded, globalist, liberal despair-bringers.
BYE
Wall to wall Bush on Fox... can’t take that much Bush. They ruined the little respect I had for that family. GW did the unthinkable... letting obams off the hook completely when we needed him... and then attacking Pres Trump.. it was uncalled for. And Barbara considered bill clinton a sort of son... Laura Bush turned out to be a dem... or liberal rep... Jeb thought he would be President...
All of them soured me on the Bush family.