Question for Bush Supporters: Has Bush made any mistakes?

Question

Please keep your answers focused on Bush. Not Clinton. Not Pelosi or anyone else in government. I'm asking only about George W Bush, about decisions or policies of his that you are feel are wrong or inconsistant with your conservative values (if you are a conservative).

Answer 1

Absolutely. I'm a conservative republican who is also a Bush supporter. However, I am quite cranky about several things he's done including, but not limited to:

-- expanding the government by creating Homeland Security
-- standing idly by while Congress gave itself yet another raise
-- bumbling in Iraq (I agree we should be there but if we're gonna do it, lets F-ing do it!)
-- not pushing social security reform after using it as an election platform
-- chipping away at the liberties we citizens hold dear -- some of this is ok, but I do not like the fact that the President can now declare anyone an enemy combatant and have them tossed in the brig forever without telling anyone a reason or allowing them counsel
-- doing NOTHING about immigration in an attempt to cater to business rather than the actual voters and citizens of this country

Answer 2

Many on here know I am a conservative and still support much of what Bush has done. This does not mean I think he is without fault. There have been many political mistakes he has made and several policy errors as well. I really believe he was the better of the choices in the last elections, but still not good enough for running our country. Not since Bob Dole have I seen a candidate who I would trust to make the right decisions with very few mistakes. I often think what a different situation we'd be in currently if Dole had won the election against Clinton.

Answer 3

Yes, many. Every president does. I don't, however, recall other presidents being asked what their mistakes were nearly as much as Bush has been asked that.

Here's my short list: Not being tough enough on immigration. Letting the Congress spend too much. Harriet Myers. The Dubai ports deal. Conservatives got him to reverse course on the last two.

I would, however, credit Bush with being good on economic/tax issues, national defense and judicial appointments.

One thing I'd like to address is Iraq. People keep asking "knowing what you know now, was it a mistake?" My answer is that there's NO WAY to answer that without knowing what would have happened if we had NOT invaded. Quite possibly, we would have continued to play cat-and-mouse with Saddam on inspections, and our troops would have been picked off wherever they were in the staging areas they were sitting in. (Remember, the only reason we even got halfhearted cooperation from Saddam was because there were 150,000 troops there.) People would have continued to scream that the sanctions were killing thousands each month (remember, we didn't know about the kickbacks France, Russia and the UN were receiving) and that the US was at fault. Eventually Saddam was hoping that he and his bribed buddies would force the lifting of sanctions and the issuance of some kind of "no WMD" clean bill of health. Then what? We still would have had Saddam, and his ready-to-go facilities and components to re-start production.

Again, how many times did they ask FDR about what his mistakes were, or whether he would have done things differently. (More US soldiers died in D-Day training exercises than have died in Iraq!) But you can NEVER answer that question until you get out the crystal ball and know what would have happened had we not invaded.

Answer 4

Of course he has make mistakes, he is human after all. I am a strict constitutionalist Conservative and the whole Patriot Act sends chills down my spine. I also think his failure to address the main problems with our border security is a mistake. There are also issues with the Iraq war I have problems with, i.e. right thing to do, just executed improperly.

Now I'm not going to single out any other president but with 20-20 hindsight it's easy to pick out what we see as mistakes made by every president in the last 100 years.

Answer 5

Yes, he has made mistakes, most presidents have, have we ever in our lifetime ever had the perfect president , no. I agree with some of the policies and decisions he made and at the same time dont agree with all of them or how he implemented some, so to answer your question, Yes Bush has made some errors on his policy making but I stand behind our commander n cheif till the end of his term.....I also would like to say, I am not republican, democrat , liberal or independant.....I am from a once republican family that changed there party views.....

Answer 6

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Answer 7

no. Bush is a Demi-God who has never made a mistake in his life. Of course Bush has made mistakes! name one president who hasn't! but for the most part, he is a good man, who belives in American basics, things like "no terrorist will fly planes into our buildings then get away with it." my god, doesn't anyone wonder what would have happened if Kofi Annan were president during 9/11? i mean, maybe he would have threatened Bin Laden with "sanctions". oohh, i bet he's shaking. i dont see anyone making a fuss about Bush wanting to go after terrorists after the useless bloodshed and horror of 9/11. well, guess what. 9/11 is still fresh in my mind, and to Bush, i say, Let's Roll!

Answer 8

the biggest mistake he made was not using icbm's on the middle east..then all of the weapons of mass destruction that were moved would have been eliminated due to feet dragging on sanctions from the un..funny how it would have settled all of the radicals points of view..instead of the shoot and run theory of the libs..the fall out would have taken innocent life but after all we are the only country that worries about that right?

Answer 9

Yes. He should have wielded his veto power more often to rein-in an out-of-control Congress that just cannot control their insatiable appetite for our tax money.

Answer 10

Numerous mistakes, that's part of being human.