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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 07:22 AM

    @muddog

    "To bad shredding the Constitution, Lying us War, Nepotism, was not enough on it’s own."

    "The intelligence from Bush 1 to Clinton to Bush 2 was consistent." - Hillary Clinton, September 24, 2003

    http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/157wjmhn.asp

    "The consensus was the same, from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration. It was the same intelligence belief that our allies and friends around the world shared." - Hillary Clinton, April 21, 2004

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.hillary/

    "Because what happened was the information that we got on the intelligence committee was, was relatively consistent with what I was getting from former Clinton administration officials." - John Edwards, February 4, 2007

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/

    So if it was a lie to say that Saddam had WMD, do you believe that, given that the intelligence was consistent from Clinton to Bush, the lying started during the Clinton administration?

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