Why is the Bush administration an absolute failure?

Question

Why are Osama and al Zahiri still alive (while almost 4000 of our troops are dead in Iraq) so they can keep making video tapes?

Answer 1

In his acceptance speech at the Republican convention in 2000 Bush said:when America goes to war the goal must be clear, the cause must be just and victory must be overwhelming.0 out of three if you ask me.He deliberately mislead people to believe he was going to be more isolationist claiming Clinton had stretched the military too far.That 9/11 changed everything might work for some uninformed conservatives but is easily debunked by the number and importance of the position he gave to PNAC members in his administration.An organization that stands for Imperialism which is the complete opposite as what he promised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slmr024JYaA
http://zfacts.com/p/775.html
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100102_bush_advisors.html
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
Quotes "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our Number one priority and we will not rest until we find him!"
- President Bush, September 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- President Bush, March 13, 2002

In the Bush administration "the negation of truth is so systematic. Dishonest accounting, willful scientific illiteracy, bowdlerized federal fact sheets, payola paid to putative journalists, 'news' networks run by right-wing apparatchiks, think tanks devoted to propaganda rather than thought, the purging of intelligence gatherers and experts throughout the bureaucracy whose findings might refute the party line -- this is the machinery of mendacity...The point here is not the hypocrisy involved, though that is egregious. The point is the downgrading of truth and honesty from principles with universal meaning to partisan weapons to be sheathed or drawn as necessary. No wonder the Bush administration feels no compunction to honor the truth or seek it; it conceives truth as a tactic, valuable only insofar as it is useful against one's enemies.

Although European countries declared their solidarity with the United States after September 11, they were increasingly uncomfortable with Washington’s emphasis on unilateralist approaches to global problems. After President Bush took office in 2001, his administration upset many European leaders by refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, opposing the International Criminal Court, and killing the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. In October 2001, Washington was reluctant at first to use the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the campaign to oust the Taliban in Afghanistan. While taken aback by U.S. reluctance, NATO leaders and Europeans generally approved of the U.S.-led operation.

The CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora—intelligence operatives had tracked him—and could have been caught...
In his book—titled "Jawbreaker"—the decorated career CIA officer criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams in the final hours of Tora Bora, says Berntsen's lawyer, Roy Krieger. (Berntsen would not divulge the book's specifics, saying he's awaiting CIA clearance.) That backs up other recent accounts, including that of military author Sean Naylor, who calls Tora Bora a "strategic disaster" because the Pentagon refused to deploy a cordon of conventional forces to cut off escaping Qaeda and Taliban members. Maj. Todd Vician, a Defense Department spokesman, says the problem at Tora Bora "was not necessarily just the number of troops."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek

Not only France and Germany opposed the Iraq War. Even in countries where leaders supported the U.S. policy, a majority of Europeans opposed an invasion absent the backing of allies and the UN. Certainly, Europeans had an aversion to war because they experienced violent conflicts on their own soil within recent memory. Moreover, European countries were already trying to assist the United States in Afghanistan, where there was at least a connection between the attacks on the United States in 2001 and the subsequent military operation.
In the months leading up to the war and in the years since, the Bush administration has shown occasional callousness toward long-time European allies. The failure of intelligence and the troubled occupation of Iraq have only made these diplomatic problems worse.

Answer 2

What I don't get is how people can say that Osama releasing another tape is good for Bush ,as it reminds people that he is still a threat....how is the fact that he is still alive six years after attacking our country good for Bush? F*cking mind blowing.

Answer 3

Because we can't find them.
The Middle East is a huge place.
They could be hiding in freakin spider hole just like Saddam was.
..Can't say I'd blame them, I wouldn't want to be found if I was responsible for blowing up 6000 Americans.
And yes, 4000 of our troops are dead, but they enlisted, they weren't forced into the Military, they KNEW what the consequences could be...I just don't see why I seem to be the only one who knows that.

Answer 4

Why do people always blame the President, as if he acts totally alone?
Doesn't anyone remember government class, checks and balances, and all that fun stuff?
Congress gave the President PERMISSION to go to war. CONGRESS keeps approving the funds for the on-going situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you want to keep it real, Hillary and Obama, as well as McCane, Romney, & Bieden and all other sitting members of Congress have their part in this too.
Most of the world is looking for BinLaden... who else is a failure? Have you found him yet?

Answer 5

The question will expire before I can list all of his failyures.

I guess we could use his own words to descibe his presdiency as a "catastrophic success."

A short list:
Irag
Afghanistan
Gonzales - and the lawyer scandal
Port Security
Bin Laden
Al Qaeda
Oil & Gas Subsidies
National Debt
Education
State Sponsored Religion
falsifying evidence to go to war
Katrina, then and now.
Haliburton
no bid contracts
200,000 wepons lost in Iraq
Rumsfeld
9/11 - He ignored the warning and dismissed the ADvice of Richard Clarke

Answer 6

"Absolute failure" is to imply that he has done nothing right. I don't like the man, and like his governing decisions even less, but to say he's an absolute failure is wrong.

But, to answer why he's a failure: He did not surround himself with an experienced staff. A smart president knows that he cannot know everything at all times, and therefore surrounds himself with people who can make decisions for him. He choose wrong. And we have suffered for it!

Answer 7

It isnt an absolute failure, the Bush Adm. has done more good for this Country than any Democrats we have ever had in office.

Answer 8

Because the GOP is populated by greedy, nasty, men..with an agenda of the religious right

Answer 9

You are wrong and you cheated. I don't agree with the premise of your question. Mr. Bush has done a good job in the war against terrorists. He has done a good job with the economy. Those points you cannot deny.

The Al Qaeda crazies are hiding under a rock somewhere. It shows they are good at hiding. Christians have been fighting muslim crazies for 1500 years. We have principles and humanity on our side. The muslims are just plain crazy.

You are supposed to ask one question and get charged five points for it.

Answer 10

"Why is the Bush administration an absolute failure?"

So I ask myself, "absolute failure?" You make it sound like they can't even brush their teeth.

So I assume that's why you see it that way.