The bill for the Bush administration

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.

To get a sense of what kind of balance is due, Salon spoke to experts in seven different fields. Wherever possible, we have tried to express the damage done in concrete terms -- sometimes in lives lost, but most often just in money spent and dollars owed. What follows is an incomplete inventory of eight years of mis- and malfeasance, but then a fuller accounting would run, um, somewhat longer than three pages. Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Jan. 12, 2009

Chalk full of information, this piece loses points on fairness. This is a catalog by the numbers of the cost of Bush's policies, but at least some of them may have been unavoidable, and there's no attempt to consider places where Bush policies may have ben beneficial.

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