The Bush Legacy, Vol. I

This is a list that simply shows all the positive actions and all the negative actions of President George W. Bush. Of course, it's my decision to decide what's good or bad. And there are some things I don't mention because they are somewhat neutral, like Bush's non-vetoing of the next stage of medicare. Anyway, this is the first version of the list. I will update the list over time.

The good things:
- his commitment to fight diseases and poverty in Africa
- tried to combat the extremist tendencies of his own party on immigration and race
- the attempt to centralize intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security
- cooperated with the Democrats during the financial crisis
- attempted to improve the education system with No Child Left Behind
- very good immediate response to the terror attacks of 9/11
- effective Afghanistan strategy until the Taliban were out of power
- avoidance of a new Cold War with China by cooperation
- creating marine reserves of previously unmatched size

The bad things:
- inadequate funding of No Child Left Behind
- inadequate funding of Infrastructure
- unsuccessful at enacting Immigration Reform
- confused structure of the Department of Homeland Security
- negligence of Afghanistan after the Iraq war
- Careless reshifting of power by the Iraq war
- deceiving the world and the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
- emphasizing not existing relations between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaida
- giving Al-Qaida a retreat in Iraq
- not having an occupation strategy after the fall of Saddam Hussein
- limiting Civil Rights to combat terrorism
- inadequate response to torture in Abu-Ghraib
- creating a lawless room at Guantanamo
- not dismissing Rumsfeld immediately
- allowing Dick Cheney to place himself above the Constitution
- inadequate response and completely lacking analytic skills to Katrina
- disregarding international relations before and after the Iraq War
- not signing the Kyoto protocol
- lifting enviromental protection laws
- not regulating Wall-Street
- disregard of the trade deficit
- disregard of the mounting economic problems in the years 2007 and 2008
- not having caught either Osama Bin Laden or Mullah Omar
- Sex scandal between lobbyists and the Department of the Interior
- Ideological infiltration of the Justice Department
- increasing the dependency on foreign oil
- letting North Korea acquire Nuclear Weapons
- increasing Iranian power in Iraq and Afghanistan
- not perescuting the responsible people for the outing of Valerie Plame
- no response to Darfur
- unsuccessful at creating new jobs
- escalating federal debt
- failure to curb goverment spending