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W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
By Vincent Rossmeier and Gabriel Winant

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:07 PM

    @ DoctorGreeves

    We'll reduce our horde of weapons or runaway defense spending with the consequent national debt will reduce it, as the Soviet Empire was reduced by its love of weapons and wars.

    As a nation, we love bombs more than schoolbooks.

    I refuse to call the War Department the Defense Department. When it renamed itself, it should have called itself the Imperialism Department.

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