• chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ford was the corrupt deal to pardon Nixon, and Nixon also sabotaged the 1968 Paris Peace talks with the help of Henry Kissinger to extend the Vietnam War. The two also bombed Cambodia.

    The two of them committed a lot of war crimes.

    Nixon also started the war on drugs specifically as a way to harm the anti-war left and black people.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think the Nixon and Bush Jr. examples could have been way stronger than those. It seems they were chosen for their recognition rather than their severity. Abu Ghraib was not good, but blaming Bush for that rather than the whole war?