George HW Bush dies at 94

[Dill]

(12-03-2018, 09:08 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Former head of the CIA.

Vice President during Iran/Contra operation.

Connect the dots.

Head for a year.  Not clear that he knew money was funneled to the Contras.  Can't quite pull the dots together.  

But I don't want to defend him against accusation in that scandal; not certain how much he knew, but that is in part because he refused to cooperate with the investigation--which could be (misguided) loyalty, which also motivated the pardons. Not good.

There are other flaws in the memory as well--the Willie Horton ad and the PR disinformation before the Gulf War.

But for me these flaws don't completely cancel his foreign policy successes--or maybe lack of failures is a better way to put it. He was a Republican president so if you make that our scale, the best R since Eisenhower.