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Tomdispatch.com by Tom Englehardt | Jan. 7, 2009 (Opinion)

The Ponzi Scheme Presidency - Bush's Legacy of Destruction

Looked at another way, the Bush administration's Global War on Terror and its subsidiary wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have, in effect, been a giant Ponzi scheme. At a cost of nearly one trillion taxpayer dollars to date (but sure to be in the multi-trillions when all is said and done), Bush's mad "global war" simply sucked needed money out of our world at levels that made Bernie Madoff seem like a small fry. Full Story »

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by Chris Finnie - Jan. 7, 2009

Maybe because I read authors like Englehardt a lot, there was little new here. And I found his repeated focus on body counts annoying, rather than a unifying theme. The part about the ponzi scheme I posted had some potential as a story, but he never developed it. All in all not one of his better efforts.

It almost seems as if liberal authors have worn themselves out beating the drums about Bush over the last 8 years and now have nothing left.

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by Kenneth Sibbett - Jan. 7, 2009

Destruction without responsibility. One of the best descriptions of the Bush Administration that I've read. Well done.

I liked the comparison between Generals Franks and Westmoreland. Westmoreland on the counting of dead bodies, "The lights at the end of the tunnel." ... More »

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