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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 08:39 AM

    George Bush's Legacy

    Lets face it ... the Republicans poured strychnine into their own well. If any single person could have done everything wrong in an eight year period George Bush did.

    These few examples are a mere tip of the iceberg:

    1. - Pandering to the Fundamentalist extreme.

    2. - Fictionalizing an excuse for an illegal war.

    3. - Demonstrating a reckless disregard for the troops that were so despicably put in harms way.

    4. - Knowingly providing veterans services at substandard or non-existent levels.

    5. - Funneling billions of dollars in sweetheart deals to political allies in big Pharma , Big Oil, Big Insurance, and War Profiteering.

    6. - Secretly disguising his own financial gain.

    7. - Deregulating the financial sector, encouraging the pillage of the American People and eventual destruction of the global economy.

    8. - Mortgaging America's future by financing a war to the tune of three trillion dollars in loans from Communist China.

    9. - Believing the electorate was too stupid to recognize the thousands of lies perpetrated to cover his wrongful acts.

    10. - Destroying the United States international standing.

    11. - Corrupting the Constitution of the United States.

    12. - Giving Special Interest groups and Lobbyists free reign to articulate and write law.

    13. - Corrupting the electoral process.

    14. - Believing that his contempt for America would not be exposed for its open hostility to Main street, infatuation with greed, loyalty to power for powers sake and utterly indefensible assault on the American peoples will.

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