Right. He gets the blame, but never the credit.

So the next time somone says Bush got us into this quagmire called Iraq and Afganistan, you’re going to reply that as Bush wasn’t actually there to fight the insurgents and win the hearts and minds, it was the Military’s fault? Wow, so much for supporting our troops you commie.

Just a side note, history will record Obama as the President who got OBL. No matter how you squirm about how he didnt actually "get" him, he just set the goal and gave the orders.

lol...B.O. was a state senator praising Rummy the year the goal was set.

Priorities change... and then change again.

His commander says "hi".

Thanks for the reminder of how much worse it could be.

Rummy was chairman of a biopharmaceutical firm when Clinton also set the goal. Here’s the scene from the 9/11 Commission’s Report , August 1998:

The day after the embassy bombings, Tenet brought to a principals meeting intelligence that terrorist leaders were expected to gather at a camp near Khowst,Afghanistan,to plan future attacks… The principals quickly reached a consensus on attacking the gathering. The strike’s purpose was to kill Bin Ladin and his chief lieutenants.

Berger put in place a tightly compartmented process designed to keep all planning secret. On August 11, General Zinni received orders to prepare detailed plans for strikes against the sites in Afghanistan.The Pentagon briefed President Clinton about these plans on August 12 and 14.Though the principals hoped that the missiles would hit Bin Ladin, NSC staff recommended the strike whether or not there was firm evidence that the commanders were at the facilities.

As we know the strike occurred but they believed they missed OBL by hours. But Obama gets the credit changing the priority back to getting OBL. And as Clemenza would say of OBL, “he sleeps with the fishes”

The score is:
drug rep = 0;
community organizer = 1.

He commands, but he serves at the pleasure of the voting public. They can replace if he's doing a bad job.