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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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  • Friday, January 9, 2009 07:30 AM

    @poodleplay

    Actually it wasn't very long after 911 that a Nazi flag was raised at a little league baseball play off game in Canada for the purpose of waking America up to what our government was doing. I remember being very upset because it was done in front of all those young children. The point here is that the world did not go along with Bush when he ignored the UN and began ignoring the constitution and the Geneva convention. We had a lot of world empathy that could have been used beneficially in a diplomatic approach to the problem, but the Bush approach caused us to lose that and that may have been the greatest thing we lost from 911 except for the loss of life.

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