What exactly has Bush done wrong that he could have prevented?

Question

I want honest facts and details on what Bush has done wrong that when it was done there was a better solution. I hear of all these bad things that Bush does, but I never actually get any facts.

The war in Iraq was a justified response to the attacks of 911 at the time. It was widely believed that Iraq had a part in the terror network. The fact that it has taken this long to get our soldiers out is just one of those things that happen with wars, especially when you are fighting a war with a world wide network. Although, we should have tried harder to not burn UN bridges.

You can't just say "lied lied lied lied lied" and then not say what he lied about. That makes no sense.

I don't think he has much power over the weather. And, I don't know where everybody else was during the whole Katrina incident, but allot of the devastation was caused by years and years of little to no preparation. Saying that Bush is at fault for the slow response of FEMA is silly anyways.

I really don't believe that Bush was twisting the arms of the people in charge at Git-mo.

And, why on Earth would we cut down so much legal immigration?

Answer 1

2500 dead troops and no Bin Laden.

Answer 2

As a conservative, and a 2 time Bush voter, here's a short list:
1. Steel tariffs - these unconstitutionally (being unfair law) protected a few steel union jobs, but had a huge negative impact on steel-using industries, especially the automobile industry. Protectionism is a leftist evil.
2. Medicare prescription - unconstitutional spending of the peoples' monies. Violation of 4th amendment - no takings of property (money) public usage without just recompense.
3. Not vetoing these pork-laden spending bills. It is his responsibility as the chief executive to act as a check on the excesses of the legislature. Especially if he's calling himself a conservative.
4. Need to publicly investigate the source of the treasonous leaks that expose signal intelligence strategies used by the NSA. These are outright treasonous actions which need to be punished.
5. Treating Democrats with wholly undeserved respect. That's a mistake. They need to be shown up as the hateful and spiteful little souls they are.
6. Not being more forceful with Congress to reform social security. He gave up too easily. This fight will take longer than the War on Terror; we needed his commitment for the long haul.
7. No Child Left Behind. Another costly federal outlay in search of constitutional authority.
8. His predilection for cronyism in some appointments, especially the Harriet Miers nomination. This shows loyalty, but not loyalty to the people who elected him.

Answer 3

Simply put, he could have STOPPED his rush to invade Iraq.
One word: diplomacy.
Two words: study history.
Three words: read daddy's book.

President Bush did very little, in the realm of diplomacy.
His snubbing of the United Nations (love 'em or hate 'em, it is a useful tool) was foolish and very divisive.
America doesn't live in a vacuum.
We rely on other nations.

Our president was a Yale graduate with a major in history.
Clearly, he did NOT study the history of the middle east...let alone military history.
As George Santayana once said "those who forget the past are condemned to relive it".

Finally, our president should read his fathers book about why George H.W. Bush did not continue into Iraq, following the Gulf War.
It was a logical, practical maneuver and a policy that America should continue to practice with countries like Iran, North Korea and their ilk.
It's called "containment".

There.
Are those facts "honest" enough for you?

Answer 4

There are audio tapes that recorded conversations in which Bush was warned by several scientists and staff members that New Orleans was going to be destroyed by a hurricane. They laid out all the issues, the risk assessment, and said quite clearly "the city is not prepared". Bush ignored it and went on his merry way, leaving New Orleans to be destroyed. There was an interesting article abotu this in Time magazine a while back.

He has also destroyed the economy, and that's no small feat!

Answer 5

Dodged the draft and went AWOL from the National Guard for 18 months. Used alcohol and cocaine. Gave tax cuts to the rich and nothing to the middle class or the poor. Is repsponsible for the biggest deficit in history. Wants to give amnesty to 12 mil. illegal aliens. Lied about WMD to go into Iraq instead of going after Bin Laden. Allows industrial giants to pollute the environment. Get the picture?

Answer 6

well he could have chose not to run...I think that was his first mistake.....catering to the oil companies..they probaly could have done without a government handout...then there was katrina....where fema was under nsa...and thoughly screwed everything up....then there was gitmo and allegations of all sorts of human rights violations and then again nsa tapping phones of law abideing citizens..without warrant I might add...oh yeah a tax cut for the wealthy...yeah they needed that...oh yeah the whole war on terror that gives him the right to use this so called war that could never be won as a right to hold people without due process...he commits acts against civil liberties and aginst due process has no respect for the constitution of the United States.......ok now what more do you need to consider him the absolute worst president in the entire history of the United States? oh yeah how about the fact that due to his historicly disaterous foriegn policies America is one of the most hated countries since Nazi Germany.....ok other than that I have nothing against the man.

Answer 7

Bush could have prevented:

The war in Iraq.
The appointment of Michael Brown as head of FEMA.
Warrantless wiretaps.
NSA snooping in your phone records.
Torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
CIA "extraordinary renditions" to countries that torture.
CIA kidnapping of innocent civilians.
Everything done by Dick Cheney, including the Valerie Plame leak and the non-existant energy "policy".

Answer 8

He needs to have militarized our border, reducing illegal immigration to zero and he has to have worked with congress to stem the insanely large number of legal immigrants that come here and place a hard cap on immigration of 50,000 to 100,000 a year.

Also, we should be at war with Iran right now preventing the nuclear holocaust they have planned. We should have done that with North Korea years ago.

Bush is a pussy and he's putting the entire world at risk trying to appease the marxists in this country. He's weak and he's playing right into their hands.

This country needs to purge itself of the left and elect people who are more than republicans in name only.

Answer 9

.We invaded another country and sent our boy's and girl's there to die , not for our country and our people but for others . The war should have been better planned . They should have had an exit strategy in the works . The whole thing was a blunder .

Answer 10

kudos for inviting an honest discussion on the subject!

he did not have to go into Iraq, should not have gone into Iraq. everyone supported his decision to go to afghanistan, and he should have kept the troops there and gotten bin laden. i would have voted for him in 2004 if he had gotten OBL and turned that country around. but Iraq was on the agenda of paul wolfowitz, perle, rumsfeld, and other team B members and bush made the mistake of catering to their agenda, which (IMHO) was worse for national security and has destroyed our diplomatic relations with other countries. if your sentiment is "who cares what other nations think, they just need to respect us", then i won't be able to convince you otherwise, but let me just say i strongly disagree with this approach because i think the more we appear arrogant and rebellious the more other nations refuse to do things in our interest.

if you look at the myriad rationales bush has presented for invading iraq and the sequence of him presenting them to America i believe it becomes clear that this war was not simply to free iraq, not simply to get an evil dictator, not simply to go after the axis of evil, and in fact NOT all of the above, otherwise he would have presented all of them to us at the beginning. if you open your mind to the possibility that the evidence was fabricated and skewed in order to complete an agenda, then your proof will be there. i cannot present any "facts" that will convince you otherwise, because you will be busy attempting to refute each one.

in the end, bush was in complete control over the decision to go to war, and he is responsible for any"faulty intel" and responsible for picking cabinet members who had ulterior motives. so he is to blame for all the blow-back that has been caused by invading iraq and thus the irreparable damage to homeland security. you can either deny this or can research further and perhaps see what Wilson said in July of 2003. It is up to you.

Answer 11

How about getting busted for cocaine in his collage years! That could have been prevented by not doing cocaine! Oh, and also lifting environmental laws that restrict the amount of pollution put out by major corporations. Oh, and then there's the OBVIOUS issue of our oil war. Our dear president owns his own oil company, I wonder who's pockets are getting fuller?!!!