courtesy of the Baseball Crank, who has put together an excellent and thoughtful list.NB: this is a list of mistakes—to wit, things that hampered President Bush and his administration in achieving their goals and purposes—not a list of policy disagreements. To take the biggest one, the invasion of Iraq was not a “mistake.” You may think we never should have invaded Iraq, and history may prove you right or it may prove you wrong, but either way, that’s not a “mistake”—it’s a policy judgment with which you disagree. That’s a whole other list and a whole different set of questions and issues.As such, almost all of the points on this list are apolitical; certainly the first eight are, and even the last two probably apply to Democrats as well as Republicans, though differently. Most of these points have to do with matters of practical judgment such as personnel appointments and communication.
