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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

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.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 01:23 PM

    What would you do

    I don't know how many saw "what would you do" on ABC the other night, but basically they had a couple actors in Paris acting like the stereotypical "ugly americans". The guy was wearing a Bush T-shirt. One of the bystanders (german accent), later interviewed after the act was revealed, said that wearing the Bush T-shirt was like her wearing a "I like Hitler" T-shirt. The fact that the vast majority of people outside the US think the same thing says something.

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