#WarInUkraine #FediLaw #Legal
#USpol #GeoPol
#BudapestMemorandum
#SecurityAssurances are not #SecurityGuarantees, I assure you 
(3/n)
...the #US, 
neither the #GeorgeHWBush administration nor the #Clinton administration was prepared to give a military commitment to #Ukraine
, and they did not believe the #US Senate would ratify an international treaty and so the memorandum was adopted in more limited terms.[51]
The memorandum...
" #Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center was authorized by #GeorgeWBush to “house" people attempting to migrate who were intercepted at sea. #GeorgeHWBush & #Clinton also used the base to confine #asylumseekers & #migrants."
47 is following their lead.
https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/a-long-history-of-migrant-detention
Today in Labor History January 16, 1991: The U.S. invaded Kuwait and Iraq. By the end of the First Gulf War, the U.S., under President George H.W. Bush, had killed over 1,000,000 Iraqis from the bombings and the effects of the five-year embargo they imposed. Then, ten years later, Al-Qaeda would attack the U.S., prompting Bush’s son, President George W. Bush, to launch the “War on Terror,” which was, in actuality, a war OF terror that would lead to the deaths of 4.6 million people and at least 38 million people displaced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror). This places Bush the 2nd as seventh on the list of top ten most murderous men in history, just behind King Leopold II, of Belgium.
#Histoire d'un jour - 12 janvier 1991 : Un vote qui a façonné l’histoire et redéfini le Moyen-Orient https://www.election-politique.com/election.php?ref=1212
@benroyce >> "big guy gets what he wants" or "we follow rules"
me >> In #US, we swing like a pendulum — former is in vogue when #Republicans are in power, latter when #Democrats.
#GeorgeHWBush invaded #Panama, and #Trump will have to invade it a 2nd time to get what he wants.
There's no legal way in which Trump can sieze control of #PanamaCanal no matter how much he says that US is getting “ripped off” and that we “foolishly” gave the canal away in 1977
@paraw >> in #Europe we know quite well that we do what the US say…
Irrefutable proof in #GeorgeWBush steamrolling #UN over #France's objections in 2nd #GulfWar just to avenge his dad #GeorgeHWBush.
@benroyce >> "big guy gets what he wants" or "we follow rules"
In #US, we swing like a pendulum — former is in vogue when #Republicans are in power, latter when #Democrats.
Even #Russia heeded #Reagan's call, "Mr #Gorbachev, tear down this wall" — That was a good thing in a different era.
The Ignored Legacy of #GeorgeHWBush: #WarCrimes , #Racism, and Obstruction of Justice
by #MehdiHasan
Note that Esquire has removed the article by Charles Pierce linked in /19 above, with the following statement:
"This column has been removed due to an error. The original article stated incorrectly that President George H. W. Bush gave a presidential pardon to his son, Neil Bush. Esquire regrets the mistake."
#GeorgeHWBush #NeilBush #Esquire #CharlesPierce
/21
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63082689/neil-bush-george-hw-bush-presidential-sons/
"Yet, somehow, keeping his only surviving son safe from the incoming pack of wolverines soon to d/b/a the Department of Justice is enough to sully Joe Biden's entire public career. The mealymouthed meeping of Democrats like Jared Polis and the inevitable Seth Moulton has landed heavily on my last nerve. The entire cast of Tiger Beat On The Potomac had an ensemble tantrum. Pundits like Jonathan Chait may never recover."
"Nobody defines [George H.W. Bush's] presidency, or his political character, by the fact that he pardoned his son. Hell, it wasn't even defined by the fact that Poppy pardoned everyone except Shoeless Joe Jackson on his way out the door so as to obscure forever his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal."
(5 December: N.B. /21 below — Esquire has retracted Pierce's claim that Bush pardoned his son.)
‘There are images no leader ever wants to be seen’: 33 pivotal US presidential moments captured on camera https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/33-pivotal-us-presidential-moments-captured-on-camera #FranklinDRoosevelt #RobertFKennedyJr #MartinLutherKing #HillaryClinton #AbrahamLincoln #MonicaLewinsky #RichardNixon #RonaldReagan #ElvisPresley #JohnFKennedy #GeorgeHWBush #BillClinton #DonaldTrump #Photography #JimmyCarter #BarackObama #USpolitics #GeorgeBush #Watergate #JoeBiden #USnews
Signatories include fmr Sen William Cohen (R-ME), who served as #Defense secy [#DefSec] under fmr Pres #BillClinton; fmr #CIA Dir Michael Hayden, who served under fmr Presidents #Obama & #GeorgeWBush; fmr Dir of National #Intelligence [#ODNI] John Negroponte, who served under #Bush; fmr #FBI & CIA Dir William Webster, who served under fmr Presidents #Reagan & #GeorgeHWBush; & fmr US #Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, who served under Pres George W. Bush.
>230 fmr ofcls for #Republican presidents #GeorgeHWBush & #GeorgeWBush have also backed #Harris, in addition to campaign staffers for Republican presidential noms #JohnMcCain & #MittRomney. #Biden received a similar amount of #GOP support in his 2020 run against #Trump.
Fmr #Reagan staff backing Harris includes Ken Adelman, the US ambassador to the #UN & #US #ArmsControl dir under Reagan, as well as B.Jay Cooper, the special asst & deputy press sec to Reagan.
Clarence Thomas Faces Recusal Call From Democrats After Wife's Comment
Story by Kaitlin Lewis
September 10, 2024
"Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas to recuse himself from cases involving a religious legal group after his wife reportedly thanked the conservative organization for its efforts to block Supreme Court reform.
"Thomas, a conservative appointed by former President #GeorgeHWBush in 1991, has been one of the justices at the center of calls for court reform after it was revealed that he has accepted millions of dollars in gifts from some top #RepublicanDonors without disclosing the items and #LuxuryVacations to the court. Questions of Thomas' impartiality were also raised after his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, pressured officials to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of former President Donald Trump.
"Investigative outlet #ProPublica first reported last week that #GinniThomas recently praised conservative legal group #FirstLibertyInstitute in an email to the firm's president and CEO, Kelly Shackelford, for the organization's work in opposing change to the High Court."
#ImpeachClarenceThomas
#ArrestGinniThomas #ImpeachClarenceThomasYesterday #ImpeachJusticeThomas
#ScotusIsCorrupt #SCOTUS #ErikPrince #January6 #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #Blackwater #Academi #Theocracy #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #CorporateColonialism #SLAPPs #BigOilAndGas #StandWithStandingRock
John Perry Barlow, The Grateful Dead, “Throwing Stones”, and Republican Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Democrat Kamala Harris for President. #111Words #DickCheney #Wyoming #GeorgeWBush #USPolitics #JohnPerryBarlow #TheGratefulDead #ThrowingStones #BobWeir #Music #Lyrics #GeorgeHWBush #SecretaryOfDefense #VicePresident https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/09/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead.html
Telluride Doc ‘The White House Effect’ Reveals How George H.W. Bush Administration Deliberately Destroyed an Opportunity to Stop Climate Change
#Variety #News #DocumentariestoWatch #GeorgeHWBush #TellurideFilmFestival
Via #CallToActivism @2:34pm EDT on Aug 28, 2024
THIS IS INSANE!
If you lived in a #democracy where the candidate with the most votes wins the #presidency, #ClarenceThomas, who was appointed by #GeorgeHWBush, would be the only #GOP #justice currently on the #SCOTUS.
Do you agree that the electoral college has got to go?
Video courtesy of #LawrenceODonnell and #MSNBC
>> Ignorance? No. Experienced. Yes.
Same here 
>> I’m getting Lloyd #Bentsen vibes right now
#Harris is not #Dukakis, and #Trump is no #GeorgeHWBush.
The difference between the candidates has never been starker, and old vibes don't fit here
As @MoiraEve said, "…allow people to be joyous and enthusiastic. The momentum is as real as anything."
Please boost the momentum if you can. You are not helping by trying to stem it.
Christian nation, make us all right
Put us through the filter, and make us pure and white
My mind has wandered from the flock, you see
And the flock has wandered away from me
Let's talk of family values while we sit and watch the slaughter
Hypothetical abortions on imaginary daughters
The white folks think they're at the top; ask any proud white male
A million years of evolution, we get Danny Quayle
From "Insanity" by Oingo Boingo, written by Danny Elfman 1994
#DanQuayle was the #JDVance of the day. We were scared that something would happen to President #GeorgeHWBush so that he would take over. Now what if Trump wins and then... oh perish the thought!
