The Job of President is Hard, its Even Harder if you’re incompetent.

I never heard anyone say the job of President was an easy job. 

It’s a really tough job, and it’s even harder when you’re an incompetent schmuck who has absolutely no experience at anything other than community organizing.   

Barack Obama is finding that one out the hard way.

I remember an incident back when George Bush was President.  The war in Iraq began with operation “shock and awe” which was a huge success.  It was a massive around the clock bombing and shelling campaign which lasted for several days, and it knocked out all of Iraq’s radar and air defenses in preparation for the ground invasion.

The first ship to arrive back home from that successful mission was the USS Abraham Lincoln.  There was a big televised “welcome home” speech by the president on the deck of the ship.  He congratulated the crew members for a job well done on the mission they were sent to do.

The Democrats and the left wing media jumped all over that speech like files on a fresh turd.  For the next several years, they ridiculed him, saying that he had prematurely declared that the war was over.   They repeated those lies over and over until even a lot of Republicans believed them.

Bush didn’t say that.  In fact, in his speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Bush sain quit the oppiset when he declared: “Our mission continues.”   Contrary to the now popular beliefe, he never “famously declared that America’s mission in Iraq had been accomplished.”

What he DID say was that following the fall of Baghdad, “now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country...  We have difficult work to do in Iraq.  We're bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous.”  Bush's goal in Iraq was never purely military – his mission was to bring freedom and democracy to a vital part of the Middle East.

Here are some more DIRECT quotes from the speech:

“The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.”

“Our mission continues. Al Qaida is wounded, not destroyed.”

“The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001 and still goes on.”

“America and our coalition will finish what we have begun.”

So how did the belief that he declared “mission accomplished” become so deeply embedded in the public consciousness? The reason is that the ship’s crew, had strung a large banner bearing the words “mission accomplished” behind the spot where Bush was due to speak.  The banner was seen on TV throughout the president’s speech.  But Bush himself knew nothing about the decision to display the banner, and certainly did not approve it.

Here is the video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzrJwzYBUkU

Obama on the other hand did declare, not once, but over and over that HE had ended the war in Iraq.  

Here is that video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_nxouSJq9c#t=27

Up until just recently, Democrats and the news media have given Obama a pass on that remark.  But the truth is, if he had stuck with the Bush plan, and not pulled out of Iraq prematurely, we would not have all the problems we now have in the Middle East.

President Obama's former defense secretary, Leon Panetta, says if the White House had listened to his advice on U.S. troop levels in Iraq, the country's security situation may not have unraveled.

"To this day, I believe that a small U.S. troop presence in Iraq could have effectively advised the Iraqi military on how to deal with al-Qaeda's resurgence and the sectarian violence that has engulfed the country," Panetta writes in his upcoming autobiography.

Here is a quote of Leon Panetta.   “The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,”