We are doomed

No one in any leadership role in our country has his or her head screwed on straight. This today from AFP:

BAGHDAD - Newly appointed US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told American troops in Baghdad on Monday that 9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq, before he was quickly corrected by his spokesman. No one has a clue about anything. And these are the people who are "leading" us? To where, exactly?