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I was surprised (although I really shouldn't be) that there was no economic number given to the international embarrassment that he has caused. I know good will is hard to assign a value to but it will cost us dearly in the short/long term. The GITMO fiasco and the Patriot act are both embarrassments economically and politically. The last should be easy to assign a dollar value to.
The other items the article mentioned seemed to have an underlying theme to them about and that was how to screw the average to poor person and hand the money to rich "friends" (read political supporters). The easy number on that is to take how much we spent on Halliburton and say multiply that times 10.
We will also pay dearly for his total disregard to the environment. That is hard to put a dollar to but think hundreds of billions.
We will go broke in the not to distant future just from Bush alone.
