Gaffe: Obama Thinks Hirohito Signed Japanese Surrender; "Victory" Not Goal in Afghanistan - Video

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | July 24, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Not a good week for President Obama. He's created the whole police "acted stupidly" fiasco. Now he has made another historical gaffe, this time by saying Japanese Emperor Hirohito signed the surrender of Japan to Gen Douglas MacArthur in 1945. Problem is: Hirohito didn't sign the surrender! On September 2, 1945, General Yoshijiro Umezu and Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu represented Japan in signing the Instrument of Surrender aboard the Battleship Missouri. Here's video of the surrender . . . . . Obama used the incorrect historical reference to support his statement that "victory" is not necessarily our goal in Afghanistan:

"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur," Obama told ABC News.

This from the President who the media tells us is the smartest, most intellectual President we've ever had. . . . . (Watch Videos)

[BanLibDems]

I would not doubt it. Also, I was not surprised that the Prez made such an hisorically inaccurate remark. Remember folks that during the campaign last year, the then VERY JUNIOR SENATOR from Illinois said that his Grandfather participated in the Liberation of Auschwitz. I didn’t know that Obama’s Granddaddy was serving in the Red Army, because the RUSSIANS liberated that death camp, not The U.S. Army or the Brits.