One thing President Bush did not anticipate - The incredible hostility of the Establishment Media, willing, and urging, an American defeat rather than allow a Republican president to win a war.
“If he didn’t anticipate that, then he had no business running anything in his life more complicated than a lemonade stand. Blaming the “Establishment Media” for losing a war is like blaming misogyny or Russian hacking for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016.”
Hard to believe you are serious about that. The Establishment Media has been perhaps the biggest power in American Politics for 60 years.
Russian hacking? Missogyny? A joke.
Many serious people did not anticipate the willingness of the Establishment Media to push for a U.S. loss. 82 of 208 Democrats voted to authorize the war. The total vote was 297 to 133.
The Left, and Establishment Media (but I repeat myself) lurched into unknown territory since W. Bush was elected in 2000.
Maybe I wasn't clear in my post. This is why I said what I did. If George W. Bush did not anticipate the influence of "the biggest power in American Politics for 60 years," then he shouldn't even be allowed to dress himself in the morning.