II didn't know that BUSH was capable of thinking; strategically or otherwise!

He couldn't win a game of Checkers with a gerbil.

As somebody said about the attempted coup in Venezuela: "They don't make coups the way they used to." I don't get the sense that these people have any finesse.

lol

Seriously I think Dubya and the boys were great at coming up with ways to get and stay in office...destroy our rights...convince the people they are oppressing to help them do it and help them keep down their firends and neighbours...to scare other countries...etc etc. Don't underestimate this little fascist dynasty...and they won't be finished in 2008 either.

When I rate this, I am rating the Bush Administration, as opposed to the president himself. From a strategy perspective, it is difficult to discern where one ends and the other begins, although I have my strong suspicions, which I will not go into here...........Like it or not, the Republican party is in power at the moment, and is more powerful than they have been for a long time. So, if we consider that they had a strategy in place to get reelected and enjoy unprecedented power, then that strategy worked..........So, all you out there who are left of center - don't kid yourselves: saying GWB is a dumbass really does get you nowhere. No right winger is going to slap him/herself on the forehead and going to say You are so right, thank you for pointing that out. You just polarize yourself from people who are sitting on the fence unless you can come up with something better than that......... Watch what the Bush Administration has done right from a strategy perspective, also I recommend reading some Lakoff, and don't be ashamed to learn from it, without compromising your own position.

oh yea this man knows a lot about Strategery.....yea because republicans didnt whine when clinton was in office give me a break, if you disagree with something the president is doing you say something and its not just trivial whining. *update* i think we will have to agree to disagree with this one because tho i feel you gave some valid examples of whining to say that liberals do it more than conservatives is silly. this is not a party issue this is something that all people of all political parties do. plenty of liberals stick to the issues and plenty of conservatives dont and as far as name calling goes Communist unpatriotic and un-american are just a few of the names thrown out by conservatives. maybe it seems different to you because you are more cognisant of those disagreeing with you then those agreeing. anyway my point is this is not a liberal characteristic this is general characteristic of all political parties.***update i know you said both sides do it, but liberals do not do it more and quite frankly i think calling someone that disagrees with you a communist is pretty vile.

Bush doesn't think strategically. He gets others to do his thinking for him. And they think in terms of politics, not sound long term policy.

He is about as strategic as a new born infant. He insists on getting his own way and sh!t$ all over everything.

Has used strategic thinking since bilking his way into the Whitehouse to attend more fundraisers for his re-election then any president in history.

Take a look at the mess he has made... He has no strategy and he has not been thinking.

Hehehehe...stop...hehehe...you're killing me...hehehe

Definetely a strategic thinker. Instead of going into Afghanistan on 9-12, he waited to get support and get our troops in position. He has also waited on Iraq- get the inspectors in there while we prepare for the invasion. Who actually thought that the inspections would work when Saddam can just move all of his weapons around?

I initially thought that this guy had an excellent strategy in the months following 9/11 in the "War on Terror". However, as NickDanger pointed out, all that Bush's "strategy" has done is push the Taliban back and force them to come back and strike another day. The recent attacks in the Middle East in the past few weeks show us that the Taliban is very much operational and its only a matter of time until the United States suffers a severe loss at the hands of these monsters. Also as NickDanger pointed out, what does Mr. Bush and his advisors plan on doing now that Sadamm is removed from power. We've seen how the President has handled post-war Afghanistan. I pray that the same will not happen to post-war Iraq.

I would have given him a 5 for his amazing ability to "sell" economic policies that favor the wealthy at the expense of everyone else, ability to raid the Treasury to achieve the above under the transparent guise of a "stimulant package" - amazed people are buying that one. Oh, yes, where are the WMAs we spent 80 billion(!) we can ill afford right now (not to mention 1000s of Iraqi, US, and UK lives...) Oh.. I see, changed you mind, mid-stream, we're "liberating the Iraqi people now..." Uh huh. Like I said, it would be a 5 but he has no clue... Dick "Enron/Haliburton Man" Cheney, Rumsfield, and the "very" scary Wolfowitz are setting the policy.

Very good stratigic thinker. How many other presidents figured if you go to war very little will disagree with what you say. Even if what you say is horrible. All you have to do is call the nay sayers unpatriotic and everyone instantly becomes your yes man. Good God this is so sad.

He's using the old "Give me what I want or else" technique. Scary. But I do have to agree... I don't think we should wait for the Iraq terrorists to take the first move. Whaddya say?

he can think. well that was news to me

I laughed out out when I saw this. . ."Stragegic Thinking"? This guy has done everything wrong for months. His handlers are giving him bad advice.

What is up with that guy talking about Quayle? Anyway, Bush is a moron who cut the defense budget to put money back in the hands of the people and spur the economy (although most tax cuts went to investors and speculators). Then our underfunded intelligence dropped the ball on 9/11, now he's pullin' money out of our collective asses to wage war on the world.

well he gets props for holding it together on 9/11

Bush's strategic thinking is focused with single-minded zeal on one overarching objective: his own reelection in 2004.

In the war on terrorism, as elsewhere, he's been thinking tactically--a strategic thinker would have planned not only the removal of the Taliban but also the means to keep them from coming back once the war is over. He didn't, and now they're creeping back into the power vaccuum our "strategy" left in Afghanistan. In Iraq, he has focused tactically on removing Saddam, but there's no evidence he or any of his fellow chickenhawks in the White House "strategy" circle has a clue what to do once that's accomplished, to keep Iraq from becoming a powder keg of anti-American terrorism and factionalism.

Measured and profound insights in the necessities of this war.

"I can't find Osama, wah! I know, I'll make trouble in Iraq. We can't prove he has weapons of mass destruction, but I apply faith-based politics to that."