Are Bush's greatest failures his inability to get Al Qaeda and failure to protect the border?

Answer 1

The biggest problem in Iraq is G.W. Bush and Republicans that support him in the occupation of Iraq. Democrats tried to set a date for a pull out, Republicans blocked that exit plan. Since Bush and his cronies had no exit plan Bush now is asking for more time. "Our strategy is built on the premise that progress on security will pave the way for political progress", Bush said in his weekly Radio address.
For the past 10 years progress on security has not changed all that much in Iraq. As long as the Iraqi people do not want it and are not willing to die for it, security will never change.
According to Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Cheifs, "Iraq has dropped it's able to fight independently security force from 10 battle ready battalions to just six."
Bush has admitted that Iraqi government got poor marks on eight benchmarks set by Congress and that they had made satisfactory grades on the other eight.
The main point in the fighting is the passage of legislation by the Iraqis government that shares the oil wealth with Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. As it is now big oil is getting the wealth. The fighting will never end until all Iraqis get part of the oil wealth. It's about oil and money.
Bush and Republicans are too stupid to except this as fact, they will never ever admit to being wrong from the start and wrong about the Iraqi people. Never.
According to Brandon Friedman, a former infantry officer of the 101 st. airborne, who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, "it's past time for a transition to diplomatic efforts in Iraq and the fact is that Iraq has kept us from devoting assets we need to fight terrorist world wide. Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose and Al Qaida has been able to rebuild it's forces."

Answer 2

Bush's biggest failure is throwing out the people from the UN and not listening to them and starting a war that is costing us too much money and lives. He went on a witch hunt for weapons of mass destruction that were never there. He did get Saddam, and the boys sort of got caught in the process. Once Sadda, was gone, it was time to set up a government, good, bad or ugly and get our boys home and let them fight it out themselves.
It's not great that he didn't get Al Queda, but we have managed to keep them under control. The border problem has been there for so many year, I don't blame him on it totally.
His other real blunder is having Cheney as his VP. Not really helpful to have one of the most currupt men as second in command. Frightens the s--t out of me. As much as I don't like Bush, the though that Cheney is so close to the White House can keep me up at nights.

Answer 3

His greatest failure is disguised as his greatest accomplishment, getting re-elected. His second greatest failure was going into Iraq and dragging al-Qaida in with him from Afghanistan. His third and probably most dangerous one to the country, his failure to secure our borders immediately after nine-eleven. I am still failing to understand if al-Qaida is our biggest threat, why does our President completely dismiss Bin Laden by saying he is no longer important? Not securing our borders is the equivalent of treason in my opinion. If we are truly fighting a war on terror his failure to secure our borders is the same as enabling the enemy. I read that as treason.

Answer 4

I am not looking at either situation as a failure on our President's account. Al Qaeda is insidious in its ability to infiltrate and hide and the immigration problem has been with us long before Mr. Bush took office. If anyone's to blame, it's our government in general for NOT being tough enough. The word should be out that if you're illegal and caught, major penalties. No one will take a sharp stand, however!

Answer 5

Neither.His greatest failure was to wage an ILLEGAL war of choice based upon a pack of filthy lies that has resulted in the SLAUGHTER of over 400,000 INNOCENT Iraqi men,women and children noy to mention over 3,000 US soldiers.

The fact that you didn't cite this as Bush's greatest failure is not surprising as most Americans like their US military consider all those slaughtered because of Bush's war not really human on a par with an AMERICAN but nothing but COLATERAL DAMAGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For a nation which claims to be "ONE UNDER GOD,you are a monumentally morally crippled people.

Can YOU image if like YOUR US Military ,others started calling the innocents slaughtered in 9/11 COLATERAL DAMAGE the US would probably declare war on them.

Answer 6

His greatest failure was stealing the election, and his complete Stupidity, It would make a good country song "Was it failure #1 or was it failure #2, How many times have I failed you. And it should be sung by the "Dixie Chicks" They were right at the git go ,were they not !!

Answer 7

He has absolutely failed in securing our borders, but the failure is ours as much as his. We voted to dvide our government by placing all of the legislative branch in the hands of the Loyal Opposition.

Having done so, we sentenced ourselves to years of "do-nothing" governement. In most cases, that's a good thing. Fewer invasive laws and less big-government regulation...

But we also ensured we would have NO immigration reform and NO border fence.

I will not call the war on terror a failure. Al Qaeda still desperately wants to hurt our civilians, but has been unable to touch us since we took the fight to their homes. We have succeeded in disrupting their organization and foiling many of theirplans.

Answer 8

Don't think so.
The real mess in Afghanistan and iraq was only exposed sometime in late 2004.
While everyone was at loss and blurr on what went wrong out there.
The sense of direction and purpose of the mess was only known sometime in mid 2006.
Looks like he's working on it with the rudder in the right direction when earlier was going in circles.
Here's a guiding star "We only just begun"
As for the border.
That is a minor problems back home.
Just living human kind jump ship from their own homeland.
With the dead Mummy in scaring the hell and living daylights out of their misery trying to survive back in their own homeland.

Answer 9

I think his greatest failure is implimenting No Child Left Behind and not funding it. He is a great failure to our children and is essentially giving the future away to smarter countries.

Answer 10

If liberal idiots and the commie UN didn't mind us nuking most of Pakistan then Al Qaeda would be destroyed once and for all.

PS... CLINTON was getting a BJ from a fat intern when AL Qaeda was planning and training for 9/11