A Catastrophe Calculator
by Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury

What is Bush achieving in return for such horrendous costs?

Bush has destroyed our alliances and the good will of a half century of U.S. foreign policy.

Bush has created an insurgency where there was none.

Bush has destroyed U.S. prestige in the Middle East and reduced America's support among Middle Eastern populations to the single digits.

Bush has made Osama bin Laden a hero and recruited tens of thousands of terrorists to his ranks, while simultaneously alienating Middle Easterners from the secular puppet rulers we have imposed on them.

At a minimum, Bush is responsible for between 14,619 and 16,804 Iraqi civilian deaths during the 21 months since the invasion.

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