George H.W. Bush: Shitbird Score 51

Ethical & Moral Breakdown:
Bush Sr. is the "respectable" imperialist — competent, measured, and deadly in ways that didn't make good TV. As a former CIA Director he inherited and maintained the covert architecture. As president, he invaded Panama to arrest Noriega — a longtime CIA asset — killing hundreds to low thousands of civilians and lowballing the count.

The Gulf War was more defensible than most American wars: Kuwait was invaded, the coalition was real, the UN mandate genuine. But Bush's air campaign deliberately destroyed Iraqi civilian infrastructure — power, water treatment, sanitation — in ways planners knew would kill long after the ceasefire. He then encouraged Iraqis to rise against Saddam and abandoned them when they did; the Shia and Kurdish uprisings were crushed while U.S. forces stood down.

Key Policies & Their Toll:

• Invasion of Panama (1989) — civilian dead in the hundreds to low thousands; official counts lowballed (direct)
• Gulf War infrastructure targeting — water/power destruction with foreseeable post-war mortality (direct conduct share)
• Abandonment of the Shia/Kurdish uprisings (1991) — thousands massacred post-ceasefire; inaction tier
• Maintained Iran-Contra-era covert networks

Toll Assessment:

• Avoidable Deaths: ~35,000
• Unavoidable Deaths: ~100,000

Shitbird Score Breakdown:

• Base Score (avoidable death toll): 31
• Ethics Penalty: +15 (civilian infrastructure targeting, abandoned allies, Panama lies)
• CIA Legacy Bonus: +5
• Final Shitbird Score: 51

"A thousand points of light."
Mostly from the burning oil fields and the infrastructure you bombed.