1) Bush think his crusade and policies are morally correct. Therefore, he is less interested in whether they will work or not, than he is in feeling good about the fact that he is a "good person" for making them.
2) Bush surrounded himself with people presenting one basic, and seriously flawed, view of the world. Those dissenting from this view were frozen out - i.e., Colin P., and the ones now writing tell-all books about how messed up his administration was/is. All leaders who surround themselves with yes-men and lickspittles run into this sort of problem. The people he promoted into positions of power were crooks like Chalabi, but he failed - and fails - to see how his own poor understanding contributed to his own problems. He cannot be "wrong" because he's morally right.
3) The Bush government is all about keeping secrets and hiding from pulic accountability. Rather than hold itself accountable for its many errors and flaws, they attempt to cover things up and retreat into more secrecy. This, of course, backfires when the secrets all come out in public. All governments need a certain amount of secrecy, but when leaders are tempted to use a culture of secrets to cover-up their own errors and lapses, they misuse the privilege for ignoble ends.
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2) Bush surrounded himself with people presenting one basic, and seriously flawed, view of the world. Those dissenting from this view were frozen out - i.e., Colin P., and the ones now writing tell-all books about how messed up his administration was/is. All leaders who surround themselves with yes-men and lickspittles run into this sort of problem. The people he promoted into positions of power were crooks like Chalabi, but he failed - and fails - to see how his own poor understanding contributed to his own problems. He cannot be "wrong" because he's morally right.
3) The Bush government is all about keeping secrets and hiding from pulic accountability. Rather than hold itself accountable for its many errors and flaws, they attempt to cover things up and retreat into more secrecy. This, of course, backfires when the secrets all come out in public. All governments need a certain amount of secrecy, but when leaders are tempted to use a culture of secrets to cover-up their own errors and lapses, they misuse the privilege for ignoble ends.