From ‘racist war criminal’ to resistance icon. “The United States cannot and should not tolerate laws that systematically target communities of color,” the American…
From ‘racist war criminal’ to resistance icon.
“The United States cannot and should not tolerate laws that systematically target communities of color,” the American Civil Liberties Union writes about the so-called war on drugs. Widely considered to be a failure of epic proportions targeting predominantly black and minority communities across the United States, the war on drugs is undoubtedly part of Bush’s legacy. George H. W. Bush was busy escalating the war, while his own son Jeb — he would admit this 40 years later — was getting high in his college dorm. Libertarian-leaning Republican Rand Paul famously used this against Jeb during a 2016 debate, “In the current circumstances, kids who had privilege like you do don’t go to jail, but the poor kids in our inner cities go to jail. I don’t think that’s fair. And I think we need to acknowledge it,” Paul said, according to Vox, calling out Jeb for opposing marijuana legalization, despite the fact that he himself apparently loved to get high in his day.
Should I ever commit war crimes, you have my irrevocable permission to say so when I die. That standard should apply to all.
A sober look at the Bush legacy by @mehdirhasan: https://t.co/yh2xdC6t5o
— Travis Mannon (@TravisMannon) December 1,2018
George H. W. Bush’s decision to further escalate the drug war is remarkably pale and inconsequential in comparison to his interventionist, brutal foreign policy. Under George H. W. Bush, according to the New York Times, the United States dropped a staggering 88,500 tons of bombs on Kuwait and Iraq. Seventy percent of the bombs “missed” their targets, killing thousands of civilians. This was no accident. The administration deliberately targeted civilians and essential infrastructure.
When a war criminal dies, it should be obvious that we not honor the war criminal & instead honor their victims. On 2/13/‘91,408 civilians were killed — most of them women, children, & the elderly, & most of them burned alive — when US forces bombed the Amiriyah shelter in Iraq.
