Remembering George H.W. Bush | NYT News
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- Mr. Bush, part of a new generation of Republicans, was often referred to as the most successful one-term president.
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It’s nice that this is so respectful
Tristan Möller - You're right...it's lovely when a ☠ *life-time of evil deeds* ☠ are covered-up with sugar.
@R* playA - They are ALL on the same-team behind closed doors. *Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine* for over a century now.
The truth about the real George Bush is included in the 90s Discovery channel documentary: The Franklin Cover Up, Conspiracy of Silence.
Number ten comparing with JFK.
@@maryhalverson5713 which conspiracy
The last true republican.
bush41 was arguably the best republican since abe lincoln imo i adore the mans work and his legacy
he was just such an amazing man who knew what was right and how to be an amazing person who put morals over party vs the raeganites who tried to control him
Last true conservative
Omg yes i agree
@@jamesshreiner9137 YES I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FIND PEOPLE THAT COULD AGREE WITH ME
No matter a liberal or a conservative, you should NEVER read the comments on a NYT video.
Why
@@sadeksama5057brain rot
@@sadeksama5057bro
The last image of him greeting the Obamas made me tear up a bit. He seems like a truly humble man. R.I.P
He looked up at Michelle Obama and thought to himself "hmm that's odd. What's this Chicago bull's player doing with the president?"
bushs secret weapon
Humble man? Lol he was worst kind of war criminal
A man with compassion, decency and a kind heart.
If only you knew what he done to the American people
@@Godsmessenger333amnesty for immigrants and an amendment to expand Voting Rights? He was a good man. He wouldn’t be nominated in today’s GOP.
@@TheTacoBoy001 he was a criminal and war monger. Panama invasion killing millions of innocent civilians and Desert Storm etc skull and bones degenerate
are u on drugs
He was a demon in human form, and his son was somehow even worse
Great war hero and public servant, even better human being. Sincere condolences to the Bush Family. God Bless 41.
@They Hate The Truth Seriously?
@They Hate The Truth *facepalm*
@They Hate The Truth There is nothing about it on Wikipedia or other reliable sources, primary and secondary.
@They Hate The Truth Yes it is.
@They Hate The Truth bruh get out of here he over saw the union of east and west germany
"I just came to say Hello"
Hi
Rare that I love a NYT video, so I decided to read the comments. Immediately regretted it. RIP GHWB.
It is so hard to allow inside the brain first to even understand or believe that somebody like him could be so evil based on the appearance and what MSM programs us with. Man somehow I saw your comment and I just wanted to say, I was once thinking people are crazy to suggest things like 9/11 Inside Job or that he was an evil man. I once was just like you there is no doubt when you know it you know it. Rake it or leave it but you should at least do research on your own. Start adding up all of the facts you find by Google:
Bush cocaine wars
Skull and bones 322
Who founded both sides of World War II as an investor businessman to gain maximum sure wealth?
Barbara Bush showing her fetus on TV in a jar
Give yourself a few minutes just to look if you just automatically brush me off.. You won't believe what truth you're going to find if you do.
suckah pleez, very eloquent.
Just facts are what baffled me learning that this man was 'the' CIA Director for so long. In a few days the information act of Congress allows on Dec. 20th the release of declassified documents and vast truths into the National Archives for public viewing. All but 50 or so pages I believe of a total of 322 total. Surely you know that number 322 if you know of his Yale fraternity off of Campus with skull and bones. And if you know that you can start to see how that number is so important to him. I am a realist and not easily wavered into a extreme side with a crazy Rosie O'Donnell or Ellen DeGeneres type of mental issue, same goes for like Alex Jones or Fox News only type of Deceit. My opinion balance is everything. George Bush had more Intel than anybody in the entire world for the last 50 years connect the dots Jason or just anybody. The truth will be coming out soon enough mark my words. I can't make this stuff up man once I would think just coincidence blah blah, but when repeated over and over and also understanding who owns all of the media and filtered info and what is planned in a NWO goal. It's really mind-blowing and very interesting when you also notice things like even from his casket his request/order for his last ever flight to touch down right at the exact minute at 3:22pm EST into Andrews Base. News isn't allowed to say or report what is not on the programming already. that's why they all seem and talk so fake if you notice. Look for yourself and learn the basic truths by googling his father Prescott Bush, Bush and 322, ties with JFK murder, royal bloodline, high powered executive cover ups in crimes from drug trafficking dope inside dead soldiers flying to and fro. Stuffs so wild, God Father have mercy on a sinner like myself and please guide me towards what Is in your will only to discover is this evil world, as the same I ask in your Son Yeshuah's name only for others who soon see the truth to come. So be it.
@@suckahpleez For one unimportant year, 1976. Not much of not happened.
Lol riping a war criminal of worst kind
He had the same birthday as me and as a young boy is why i got into the interests of government, also the ending almost made me cry it was so wholesome
Same!
As a non American , I kinda respect him . May he rest in peace.
Yes bro...he was such a wonderful person and had a great sense of humor..RIP Sir😔
@@nagendrakumarnamagiri5408 He is evil, please search about rocketry
RIP George HW Bush. A salute to your dedication and sacrifice!
@They Hate The Truth Why, how kids lives are lost
@They Hate The Truth just tell me 1 instance. That's it
@They Hate The Truth Seriously what is it with these conspiracies
@They Hate The Truth Proof?
He was just a mob boss.
Reagan: „Let’s make America Great again!“ That didn’t age well.
Yes it did.
No it didn’t
@@FirstnameLastname-fm4ttno it didn’t 😂
"He led the first truly successful military engagement since Vietnam" - wait, Vietnam was a success?
if you really wanna know about the Bushs read the Tatum Chronicles
US lost Vietnam war. Read some history u moron!!!!
@Colby Hill US lost the Vietnam War so badly that they were thrased with wounded soldiers, disbanded economy
That's what I thought!
Why does someone dying automatically make them a saint these days?
It doesn't. But as they say in my nation - do not speak ill of the dead when they aren't even cold yet.
It doesn't. But as they say in my nation - do not speak ill of the dead when they aren't even cold yet.
it doesnt... but why do you fail to see the good in this man? nobody is perfect, everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone lived a life of service like HW Bush did. the guy had a human side to him and wanted to make the world a better place. you may not agree with his methods or policies but his motives were good.
Bacause he was
It’s called having respect for the dead.
Great respect and memory President George H.W.Bush
Rest in peace 🕊️🙏🕯️
"George H. W. Bush is the most successful one term president we've had in American history"
James K. Polk: Hold me gold
*Donald J. Trump
Polk and Bush were the best one term presidents.
George Bush did very well as a President he especially would not let Iraq push him around. He was correct in not gloating over the fall of the Berlin wall and later the Cold War. I was a part of the cold war with SAC. We were on 24 hour alert 7 days a week in case Russia decided to strike the US with nuclear weapons. President Bush was the man to be able to order the alert force to stand down after 46 years of doing our job. Our motto in SAC was Peace Is Our Profession, because we were ready no one attacked us. George Bush I'm sure lost some sleep prior to his decision to order us to stand down off alert. This was a major step forward for the world at the time. I consider President Bush to be one of the great presidents!!
What a great man. Some of you people that are commenting are str8 up insane. Show some Respect, you can learn something about humility and grace from this man.
Not the biggest conservative not the biggest liberal just wanted to help everyone in the USA.
There’s no one left like him anymore.
Mr. Rogers + John Wayne = George Bush . . . Dana is fuckn genius.
"READ MY LIPS, NO. NEW. TAXES."
*raises taxes*
CooperDaScooper Couldn’t really blame him for having to do that since Reagan’s economic policies left this country with an enormous amount of deficits.
as if the blood of thousands of innocents wasn't enough.
@@theseageek But that was minimal to the economic deficit today caused by public spending by Democrats. Also the 1992 recession came about.
He should never of moved to Springfield across from the Simpson's
July 4th, 2024 is a suitable day to recall and respect the life of George H. W. Bush. The very essence of kindness due to confidence.
He was the last republican president who represented the true center right politics of the republican party.
Check out the poster at 3:25.
After so many years. it's gonna happen forever
@Kayden Sanchez well yeh he mirrors a lot of raegans policies like huge tax cuts and stuff
Rest in peace Daddy Bush. You will be missed.
what about 9/11 and JKF assassination ?
Here's the letter President George Bush left for President Clinton in the white house.
Dear Bill,
When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.
I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.
There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I'm not a very good one to give advice; but just don't let the critics discourage you or push you off course.
You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.
Your success now is our country's success. I am rooting hard for you.
Good luck-
George
One of the last gentleman in the WH, this is the kind of presidents the people look at as an example to follow, now he is in heaven with Barbara 💕, bless them both, RIP 🙏🏿
Amen
Shame on those wishing him ill will, most of you were never even alive to see him as president, Bush was a fine man. Rest in Peace.
MUST BE NICE TO LIVE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE..
Jody Ssbbwgirl you literally make videos celebrating your obesity to ignore your high probability of early onset diabetes. That is to live in the twilight zone
You truly are a stupid creature...
May his soul finally go up and meet his wife again.
When Bush Sr mentioned the NWO, i knew he was a globalist traitor, i was 27 yrs old!
George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12,1924-November 30,2018)was ONE GREAT AMERICAN!🇺🇸
Thanks for your service GHW Bush, I hope you’re alright in heaven and I wish you the best sir. RIP
Nicely done. Tears for the past that is gone.
God bless George H Bush!
Randi supports Randi
Hearing about how good he was honestly made me extremely disappointed that his son ended up so much worse.
What a great man. Thank you, NYT, for this remembrance piece
You can say that to almost all presidents before him! Nobody is perfect.@dbdevour
Praise you for being a normal being who’s responds to the death of human being is not spit on there grave because you disagreed with them.
dbdevour This is so basic. I bet you post that edgy comment under literally any person in American history just to be edgy
Throw his body to the pigs, they will eat it and properly dispose.
Click bait. No one with a UA-cam account and a brain could have nothing short of hostility about any and everything he stood for. He should've never been born
Favorite POTUS in my lifetime & I was born in the 50's. I was so disappointed when he wasn't reelected after just getting us through a war with less than 100 casualties....for a draft dodger skirt chaser. But being the man he was, he was gracious & even became a lifetime friend of Clinton.
Your legacy lives on!
One of my all time favorite presidents ( I'm conservative with alot of disabled people in my family so im a bit biased) and belive him to be the nineth best president
I feel like he was our last consequential president. Ended the cold war. Everything after has been fighting over peanuts
Who are the other 8?
Former US president and CIA chief George H. Bush, the father of the current US President George W. Bush, has been accused throughout his life of being involved either with terrorism, the Mafia, and drug trafficking, either during his time as CIA director (1976-1977) or his term as Vice President (1980-1988) or President (1989-1992). Apart from his alleged involvement in the CIA during the Kennedy assassination, he is also said to have carried out violations of the Geneva Convention as a US fighter pilot during the war. He was alleged to have killed Japanese trawler men in a lifeboat whilst a fighter-pilot during the second world war. The latest person to make these allegations is the former Panamanian dictator and CIA stooge, General Manuel Noriega, who is presently serving a 40 year jail sentence in the USA. Calling Bush a "cold blooded killer", he repeats the story that Bush had found Japanese trawler men in a lifeboat, who all had their hands up, but Bush shot them anyway. According to The Observer, Bush has always refused to respond to accusations that he killed Japanese trawler men whose ship he sunk in 1944
and your point is,,,,,,,,,, trolling as usual heh heh.
Good historical call, I guess it doesn't really matter now what the truth is because he's dead. If its true perhaps he'll answer for his wrong doings in life in his afterlife.
Todd's Tropicals There’s a rebound for everything . It definitely matters he killed people
Yes
Well you should do some research before putting out stuff like this. The Geneva convention was developed in the aftermath of WWII so whatever Bush did, he did not violate the Geneva convention during WWII because it didn't even exist at that time.
This is the type of Republican I would definitely vote for and Mitt Romney, and John McCain as well.
And Trump too
Ron desantis next
Seems like a true gentleman
A man of honor...!!!
George HW Bush
George H.W. Bush: For a start, Bush told the American public that Iraq had invaded Kuwait “without provocation or warning.” What he omitted to mention was that the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had given an effective green light to Saddam Hussein, telling him in July 1990, a week before his invasion, “[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.”
Then there is the fabrication of intelligence. Bush deployed U.S. troops to the Gulf in August 1990 and claimed that he was doing so in order “to assist the Saudi Arabian Government in the defense of its homeland.” As Scott Peterson wrote in the Christian Science Monitor in 2002, “Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated … that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on the border, threatening the key U.S. oil supplier.” Yet when reporter Jean Heller of the St. Petersburg Times acquired her own commercial satellite images of the Saudi border, she found no signs of Iraqi forces; only an empty desert. “It was a pretty serious fib,” Heller told Peterson, adding: “That [Iraqi buildup] was the whole justification for Bush sending troops in there, and it just didn’t exist.”
He committed war crimes. Under Bush Sr., the U.S. dropped a whopping 88,500 tons of bombs on Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, many of which resulted in horrific civilian casualties. In February 1991, for example, a U.S. airstrike on an air-raid shelter in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad killed at least 408 Iraqi civilians. According to Human Rights Watch, the Pentagon knew the Amiriyah facility had been used as a civil defense shelter during the Iran-Iraq war and yet had attacked without warning. It was, concluded HRW, “a serious violation of the laws of war.”
U.S. bombs also destroyed essential Iraqi civilian infrastructure - from electricity-generating and water-treatment facilities to food-processing plants and flour mills. This was no accident. As Barton Gellman of the Washington Post reported in June 1991: “Some targets, especially late in the war, were bombed primarily to create postwar leverage over Iraq, not to influence the course of the conflict itself. Planners now say their intent was to destroy or damage valuable facilities that Baghdad could not repair without foreign assistance. … Because of these goals, damage to civilian structures and interests, invariably described by briefers during the war as ‘collateral’ and unintended, was sometimes neither.”
United States invasion of Panama : The US government invoked self-defense as legal justification for its invasion of Panama. A number of scholars and observers have concluded that the invasion was illegal under international law. The justifications for invading given by the U.S. were, according to these authorities, factually baseless, and moreover, even if they had been true they would have provided inadequate support for the invasion under international law.
Casualties and losses
234-314 killed -1,908 captured
Highway of Death - The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait. It was repaired after the Persian Gulf War and used by U.S. and British forces in the initial stages of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[5]
During the American led coalition offensive in the Persian Gulf War, American, Canadian, British and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on the night of February 26-27, 1991, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of vehicles and the deaths of many of their occupants. Between 1,400 and 2,000 vehicles were hit or abandoned on the main Highway 80 north of Al Jahra.
Casualties : US : None
Iraq : 200-1,000+ killed,2,000 captured[4],1,800-2,700 vehicles destroyed or abandoned
@@hassanabidali4its not George H W Bush, its George W Bush
1500+ civilians died during the illegal invasion of Panama City. He cut off HIV and AIDS research. He was a warlord who hated those different to him, he was a monster. All presidents make difficult choices, this is true, but he didn't have to do some of the things he did.
Do you mind listing some of the sins or evil deeds that you've done we're all Human
@@cloud_c5222 Oh yeah we are all human. I cheated all throughout my 3rd grade on EVERY-SINGLE SPELLING TEST. I once left my friend at a party bc I wanted to leave (i was her ride). I even told my brother(in a fit of rage over money) that it was his fault he lost his house during the 2008 recession. I've done some bad things, but they don't even begin to counter his.
@@ohio He also helped bring crack to the hood (where Latino and Black ppl are in abundance) so I kinda am upset about that...but uhhh whatever right?! Nah. Dead ppl only get respect when they've earned it while alive hun.
@@yikesu3587 now imagine if you switched positions with him how would you feel seeing Bush's comment on UA-cam about you
@@cloud_c5222 Dude....he killed over a thousand innocent civilians.... he also willingly let thousands of lgbtq AMERICANS die...me leaving my friend and yelling abt money issues with my family is not the same. Yeah, he's human, but being human doesn't mean ur exempt from mistakes. We are not the same, he was a rich man with power who abused it for 4 long years and I'm just a middle-class person trying to get by.
i know there's a forgiving creator but in his case i don't know
He should have had 8 years.
I loved Dana Carvey's SNL impersonation of Bush.
Man of grace ❤️
He was and is a genius, an actual one.
Let's not make a monster into a hero just because he died.
I mean he bad monster for other but with some american he is a goodman for their benefit
One of the last Presidents who worked with both sides for his country… and preferred country over party.
Watching from Brazil
One of the most memorable amongst all human beings in all history of ours.
beautifully done tribute!
It always baffles me how he is given credit for bringing down the Berlin Wall, which is an entirely German accomplishment
You obviously don't know history at all.
You have obviously never even read the title of a book, web article or UA-cam video on the German wall.
Mac And Tech well, I am German and I do have a degree in history, so yes, I do know. But please enlighten me, how did the US unify Germany again?
What about is complicit silence about the HIV crisis in the 80s? 🌿🕊️🌿🕊️🌿😪🌿
His predecessor Reagan had more responsibility to act when people needed support.
And yes, proudly done nothing, as I bisexual man I turned my back on the republican party.
This situation was notified and came back to cause George bush the election in 1992
Emmanuel Lepage ehich he founded havily in silince look at the numbers
Shut up fuckwad
@@michoak47nfernandez25 no u
MICHOAK47N FERNANDEZ Lol
right in the feels
MAAAAAN, WHAT A RESUME! TALK ABOUT AN OVERACHIEVER.
God bless Mr. Bush, a great American and human being.
Great video, thanks.
i once wrote an essay about him and my teacher was like, "are you related to him or something? it looks like you know him." i almost teared up but i laughed, "i wish but he's my idol."
Hes a war criminal
@@ascendantking2178How so?
@@TheTacoBoy001 Those people never reply; or never reply sensibly. I once got into a debate, reading a comment where someone accused Bush of being an evil war criminal. I took my time, listing down all the decent things he did into my comment, pointing out how he drew back from Iraq after achieving the goal in the Gulf war etc. Then the person replied that he still was a war criminal. I asked for proof. Their reply? Something like "Search your facts; you'll find lots of proof." I searched "Bush Sr war criminal" and only some very untrustable-seeming sites came up. I told the person to give me the links to their sources. They said do your homework. yeah. They literally said that XD
Then, I replied to them I've done mine, and told them to give me the links. I also pointed out they needed to be from trustable sources. the person said do your homework again, and I never got any proof or sources from them lol. Those people never give sources, just post these kind of comments (or a LOT worse to his funeral coverage- Honestly I was shocked.) but never give sources or anything like that when you ask. Soo yeah. I came to the conclusion to just ignore these people.
@TheTacoBoy001 look into his father Prescott Bush funding the Nazis, his CIA career starting with probable involvement in JFK assassination, VP for Reagan and involvement in Iran Contra, ties to Saudis with his son, anotther war criminal etc. etc. etc.
He is one of my favorite presidents of all time and I am lifetime Democrat that is how special George HW Bush was R.I.P.
fan of death, murder, terrorism, chaos, destruction, and all things evil are you?
Patrick I love George HW Bush and I'm a Democrat.
Well done NYT
Happy Birthday His Majesty President George Herbert Walker Bush ( born 12th June 1924 ).
I consider You as my grand father.
Best Regards.
Alek Ansawarman from Indonesia.
I hope one day we can get a Republican party more like this again.
Love George H. W. Bush ❤️
I like the way he spoke
Such a criminally underrated president, and I'm not even a Republican. He got blamed by the voters for Reagan's reckless 8 years of deficit spending, which led to the recession during his own presidency. RIP GHWB!
Thank you Sir
The times when Republican president was actually decent and open-minded. Gosh :(
The 41st President of 🇺🇸. He will be missed but not forgotten.
+NEVER TRUST A COMMUNIST he was a real good man who kept our nation safe.
@@kevinrichards3288 Wow, you are sadly brainwashed. Do some more research on this criminal
Regardless of your political views, you're tripping if you think 41 wasn't a good man
Hats off to Peter Baker for doing a great job as narrator. His voice reminds me of Rob Lowe. RIP George and Barbara Bush ❤️
I may have disagreed with him on policy, but at all times he was a true gentleman and man of honour. His love for his country and the enduring devotion to his faith will last forever. I will remember him for the love he had for family, friends, and complete strangers. Rest in Peace Sir, love Australia.
and a serial killer is a lovely person face to face as well, i'm sure.
@@perryb.1733 what is wrong with you guys? You have so much hate and no respect
Big criminal war..
He was the best republican president since Linchon
I’m British why do Americans hate this former president
At 6:26, there is a statement that's quite disturbing; how can poll numbers go up to 90% if a country is embroiled in war; what's the state of the mind of the nation? Does it collectively lack a conscious?
polls are organized lying. they poll the questions they might use until they find the exact right wording to trick people into giving them the answer they seek.
You really don't understand America, do you?
The war was already going on regardless of whether or not the US was involved. Iraq - a repressive dictatorship with a genocidal head of government - had invaded Kuwait. If you want to go to Kuwait and tell the people there that the US shouldn't have been involved, be my guest.
I'm gonna go ahead and remember victims of aids crisis he killed instead
💀💀💀 mood
what a ridiculous attitude Malgorzata. instead of focusing on his failings why not try to see all the good he did?
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Yeah because everyone knew it was a terrible epidemic the second it was discovered, I’m sure Duckakis would’ve acted. This is so insipid and revisionist it’s cringe worthy.
good for you
Happy birthday Mr president
I would have loved ❤️ to have lived during his & Reagan’s Presidency era’s.
(nicely done video, thank you!)
(I find that video editing and narrating style incredibely soothing.)
@@insertaverygenericnamehere (why are we talking like this?)
@@avisakibaleibolatagane2102
It was just a little remark. And I wanted to whisper, because it was not a such important remark.
@@insertaverygenericnamehere oh ok
This guy oversaw the JFK assassination complot and the murder of the witnesses after the event took place.
Great President.
God bless him
rest in peace George H.W Bush your legacy will always live on
Patrick Barrett immigrants will take over your country in the near future and you will become a minority haha
@@ArtVandelay00 I would like so much to say that you are wrong and as much as I hate it, I can't argue with FACTS.
Your evil criminal background will live on
He bombed the land of my ancestors and eventually a grinding century of sanctions was placed on millions of innocent citizens. However, seeing this other side of him is sweet. No human is all good or all bad. Balance in perspective is what the world needs right now the most.
"A Presdent is not judge by what he did but by what he did for his country and history will do it's judging"
Joins his father-in-law, Aleister Crowley
Bush Senior > Bush Junior
Planck length tall bar there
george w. bush how can I be like you without joining a secret society, &/or a royal family? hah-hah, heh-heh, ...
God Bless you sir
George HW Bush
George H.W. Bush: For a start, Bush told the American public that Iraq had invaded Kuwait “without provocation or warning.” What he omitted to mention was that the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had given an effective green light to Saddam Hussein, telling him in July 1990, a week before his invasion, “[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.”
Then there is the fabrication of intelligence. Bush deployed U.S. troops to the Gulf in August 1990 and claimed that he was doing so in order “to assist the Saudi Arabian Government in the defense of its homeland.” As Scott Peterson wrote in the Christian Science Monitor in 2002, “Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated … that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on the border, threatening the key U.S. oil supplier.” Yet when reporter Jean Heller of the St. Petersburg Times acquired her own commercial satellite images of the Saudi border, she found no signs of Iraqi forces; only an empty desert. “It was a pretty serious fib,” Heller told Peterson, adding: “That [Iraqi buildup] was the whole justification for Bush sending troops in there, and it just didn’t exist.”
He committed war crimes. Under Bush Sr., the U.S. dropped a whopping 88,500 tons of bombs on Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, many of which resulted in horrific civilian casualties. In February 1991, for example, a U.S. airstrike on an air-raid shelter in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad killed at least 408 Iraqi civilians. According to Human Rights Watch, the Pentagon knew the Amiriyah facility had been used as a civil defense shelter during the Iran-Iraq war and yet had attacked without warning. It was, concluded HRW, “a serious violation of the laws of war.”
U.S. bombs also destroyed essential Iraqi civilian infrastructure - from electricity-generating and water-treatment facilities to food-processing plants and flour mills. This was no accident. As Barton Gellman of the Washington Post reported in June 1991: “Some targets, especially late in the war, were bombed primarily to create postwar leverage over Iraq, not to influence the course of the conflict itself. Planners now say their intent was to destroy or damage valuable facilities that Baghdad could not repair without foreign assistance. … Because of these goals, damage to civilian structures and interests, invariably described by briefers during the war as ‘collateral’ and unintended, was sometimes neither.”
United States invasion of Panama : The US government invoked self-defense as legal justification for its invasion of Panama. A number of scholars and observers have concluded that the invasion was illegal under international law. The justifications for invading given by the U.S. were, according to these authorities, factually baseless, and moreover, even if they had been true they would have provided inadequate support for the invasion under international law.
Casualties and losses
234-314 killed -1,908 captured
Highway of Death - The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait. It was repaired after the Persian Gulf War and used by U.S. and British forces in the initial stages of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[5]
During the American led coalition offensive in the Persian Gulf War, American, Canadian, British and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on the night of February 26-27, 1991, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of vehicles and the deaths of many of their occupants. Between 1,400 and 2,000 vehicles were hit or abandoned on the main Highway 80 north of Al Jahra.
Casualties : US : None
Iraq : 200-1,000+ killed,2,000 captured[4],1,800-2,700 vehicles destroyed or abandoned
@@hassanabidali4 u r right ; he was always in oil buisness and greed for oil in its instincts causes planed war and destruction of iraq; when iraq is attacking kuwait; americians officials turned blind eye to it and then make an excuse to take oil from iraq ; such a dirty game ; infact he is a murdrer!
Rest in peace George
Iran contra anyone and all the crap that happened in Latin America because of him.
Rest in peace George , the world will miss you and America lost a wonderful world war 2 hero , a true hero . He did more in one term as President then any other who served two , you'll be missed deeply , your legacy will be remembered forever. Heaven has another angel to guide America toward the true world leader Jesus Christ and now he's with his wife and daughter. Thank you President Bush (41) for your service , not only America but to the entire world. Peace be with you always and I pray that your family gets thru this crisis, as you will be missed by all.
From a time when Republicans were anti-wall.
3:23 even Reagan wanted to make America great again
NYT WAS CALLING THIS GUY A MONSTER NOW THEY ARE ACTING LIKE HE WAS A SAVIOR SMH
I remember when Pat Paulsen said "George Bush is like Gerald Ford without the pizzazz."
I like how this never mentions Skull & Bones (order of death) and his invasion of Panama, and the sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Satan 5 he did more good than bad. He almost single handedly destroyed a terroristic nation
@@Me-vl6tp Iraq did far less harm to the world than the Bushes.
Illuminati Agent #43 wrong
Me Panamanian Civilians be like 💀💀💀💀💀
R.I.P Mr. bush. I appreciate your service sir
What service? Being a war criminal?