When the older Bush (George H.W.) died recently, many people were praising him for all sorts of things.
Actually, he did MANY BAD things, including using the racist Willie Horton ad during his presidential campaign and starting unnecessary wars and making a lot of money through his business selling military weapons, and on and on.
Here are three articles that were excluded from mainstream news media:
His “war for oil” in Iraq — the FIRST Gulf War — was totally unnecessary and extremely cruel. See this:
When he stationed U.S. military troops in Saudi Arabia — Muslims’ Holy Land — he antagonized many Muslims. Osama bin Laden later cited that as one reason why wanted to retaliate against the U.S. So you can thank George H.W. Bush for laying the groundwork for the 9-11 attacks.
Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org
