Maggie's Farm

In part the question raises the psychology of those who have made a life changing move. Often times they go a bit too far in their zeal to rectify past mistakes.
Weightloss...a person losses a good deal of weight, begins to eat right and then with friends and strangers becomes ardentlt zealous in "spreadding the word and attracting converts.
Rehabed druggies ...same thing
Born again Hari Khrishnas ..whats to be said..they use to haunt you at airports.

I believe the question is perfectly valid and I personally believe it has impacted his judgement on some major policies...he looked into Putin's eyes and saw not the Lubyanka but his whatever. Putin is now gearing the Lubyanka back up to full speed.
Bush has finally discovered that he still must deal with the evil regimes, Syria and Iran in an effort to make incremental forward motion in Iraq.
Yes, a valid question and for my money one that needs to be examined. One more example is that he has vetoed only one or two bills in his Presidency. That's too pliable for belief. He is too reborn to handle the assault on the USA.

Patina,
His term is coming to a close. How can it be too early to tell?

Patina,
I'm just one of those armchair generals too but I'm glad we stay abreast of these things..it helps our freedom.

I don't think the Bush Doctrine will last past his last day in office. Hoever I hear from too many who have been on the ground in the ME and elsewhere, including the open testimony of Gates and others that the Islams aren't stopping. They're coming after us as hard as they can once regrouped and ready.
Then and only then will our own population awaken to threat. They'll do real damage here and we in turn will have learned by then to obliterate their operational areas without regard to border. If we don't we can look forward to Christmas shopping at malls that are blown up, national monument detroyed, and dirty bombs making entire areas of major commerce centers uninhabitable for years.

retriever,
I agree on the labor/border protection deal, especially when you start to realize that the US, Canada, and Mexico are moving rapidly toward the North American Union.

http://www.eagleforum.org/topics/NAU/

http://spp.gov/

Another observation of President Bush. He is the CIC and as such should listen to his generals but ultimately make the final decisions.
Since the beginning of the Iraq conflict he had a two track approach that I have been against and history has proved a failure. He failed to conquer his foes. He conquered one or two but did not achieve unconditional superiority over the country and cities, which he could have done. The result has been a much more protracted engagement because factions were allowed to roam free with weapons and control certain areas that should have been taken.
I believe this two track approach appealed to the President because he is a good man. Good men do not always make effective CIC's and I believe history will mark him as such.
He retrained the rules of engagement on his troops which resulted in greater casualties and deaths.
At the end of the war with Japan there was nothing left of that nation. The rebuilding came after we had totally destroyed the country and today they are the second or third largest economy in the world..we should have done the same in Iraq, and that falls squarely on his shoulders.
We do not need and did not need the finesse of speed of light intelligence to destroy Iraq. We lacked the leadership.