Um, that's everything...
This, courtesy of Dan Froomkin's Washington Watch column in the Washington Post, just makes me laugh. In this, someone who identifies himself as someone who "...have wanted [Bush's] presidency to succeed..." states the three biggest mistakes he has made.
One is personalizing 9/11 - which has pretty much been the agenda since, oh, about 5:00 pm on that day in 2001.
Two is selecting Cheney as his VP, and three is bringing Karl Rove into the White House.
I don't think it's hard to argue that every major (and probably every minor one, too) decision that has come from this administration has had either Dick Cheney's and/or Karl Rove's meaty fingerprints all over them.
So...in essence, this is a roundabout way of saying that every single part of the Bush presidency has been a mistake.
Hey, wait...that's my line!
One is personalizing 9/11 - which has pretty much been the agenda since, oh, about 5:00 pm on that day in 2001.
Two is selecting Cheney as his VP, and three is bringing Karl Rove into the White House.
I don't think it's hard to argue that every major (and probably every minor one, too) decision that has come from this administration has had either Dick Cheney's and/or Karl Rove's meaty fingerprints all over them.
So...in essence, this is a roundabout way of saying that every single part of the Bush presidency has been a mistake.
Hey, wait...that's my line!
 clipped from www.washingtonpost.com
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Shows what you know.
ReplyDeleteThree biggest strategic mistakes from my POV:
1. Not immediately doing something about Fallujah from the get-go. Failing to take the city after the insurgents hung those contractors from the bridge was a major error and pumped air into the insurgency.
2. Not taking a hard-line approach to the Syrians and the Iranians.
3. Not doing anything to harness Tom DeLay from spending like a lotto winner with an ebay addiction.
Of course, there's strategic mistakes, and there's tactical mistakes, and there's been a bunch of those, too.