Despite Bob Dole’s accusations, George Bush had not been a totally ineffectual as commanding general in the Reagan drug war.  In the mid-1980s, Bush successfully clamped down on the free-for-all in Florida where cocaine was pouring in by ship, plane, mule, and diplomatic pouch. Miami was then the port of entry for most of the Colombian product, and as business arrangements shifted from day to day, the murder rate in Dade County skyrocketed. To stem the tide of white powder and violence, Vice President Bush created an inter-agency strike team called the South Florida Task Force and set out to attack the smugglers by land, sea, and air.  Customs and Border Patrol agents were pulled off the Canadian and Mexican frontiers and reassigned to the Sunshine State, and ten Coast Guard cutters fitted for night operation went into action in the Carribean as AWACS jets circled above the fray directing airborne interceptors in Blackhawk helicopters.^[1] All this heat had the desired effect, and once again, the law of unintended consequence crowned success with disaster.