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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.
By Vincent Rossmeier and Gabriel Winant

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 09:55 AM

    100,000

    1.) A conservative estimate of the number of innocent people killed (not including militants) by Bush's wars so far. 2.) From a humanitarian perspective a figure which dwarfs all the other figures given in this article.

    100,000 people is roughly equivalent to:

    4 square miles of New York City

    or the entire population of any one of the following cities:

    Green Bay, Wisconsin

    Berkeley, California

    High Point, North Carolina

    The number of "terrorists" created as a result of these deaths is unknown.

    "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." --Thomas Jefferson

    —Baloo. Read Baloo.'s other letters

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