I find it bad logic to blame Bush for the unresolved part whilst trying prosecute those wars with half of the Congress literally trying to sabotage those efforts.
Would Saddam have become the next Hitler? Thankfully, that has been relegated to a moot, academic exercise, as we will thankfully never have to know.
Sometimes, protecting your people is like raising teen-agers, who you love dearly even as they yell that they hate you, and that you know nothing or just don't understand. Thanks W!
I generally agree with this statement, but I think you need to take it a step further to understand Conservative disappointment with GWB.
Yes, the leftists stood as roadblocks to everything he wanted to accomplish with regard to the GWOT, but GWB failed miserably in that he bargained away a conservative domestic policy, his legacy, and the Republican brand instead of fighting for what was right and using the Bully Pulpit to destroy every last dirtbag, D or R, that held success in the war hostage for pork and socialism.
GWB is a good, gentle, decent man, but these circumstances called for something other than "gentle".