Two months before the Iraq invasion Bush didn't know what

[joemurphy]

Sunnis and Shiites were.

Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming President George W. Bush was unaware that there were two major sects of Islam just two months before the President ordered troops to invade Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.

In his new book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End, Galbraith, the son of the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, claims that American leadership knew very little about the nature of Iraqi society and the problems it would face after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

A year after his “Axis of Evil” speech before the U.S. Congress, President Bush met with three Iraqi Americans, one of whom became postwar Iraq’s first representative to the United States. The three described what they thought would be the political situation after the fall of Saddam Hussein. During their conversation with the President, Galbraith claims, it became apparent to them that Bush was unfamiliar with the distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.

Galbraith reports that the three of them spent some time explaining to Bush that there are two different sects in Islam--to which the President allegedly responded, “I thought the Iraqis were Muslims!”

<http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Ambassador_claims_shortly_before_invasion_Bush_0804.html>

[JuniperLea]

1. He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground

So this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

[Fridays Child]

2. Not surprising from a man who didn't know that Brazil has ...

...black people. :eyes:

[dipsydoodle]

4. I remember that one

Can't even it's sad - just plain horrific really.

[Turbineguy]

6. But he knows

they got brazillions of them.

[liberal N proud]

3. It didn't matter to him or anyone in the regime

Iraq was the target and nothing, nothing was going to stop them.

9/11 was the enabler that gave them the support from the stupid American public to attack a sovereign nation.

[AlamoDemoc]

5. * didn't own a passport until he became leader of US of A

....he once crossed the border to Canada for a baseball game.

[Gman]

7. Why would anyone expect Bush to know about Sunnis and Shiites?

Because he's the president is not a good answer.

We have no reason whatsoever to expect that he would. I never would have, although I never thought about it. It's just one of those things you take for granted.Be

[joemurphy]

8. Any intelligence report would have mentioned them.

It means Bush didn't read any.

[Gman]

9. There's no reason to expect that Bush would read them

The words "intellectual curiosity" and "George W Bush" don't often collide in the same sentence.

[unkachuck]

10. Mr. Galbraith, please don't pick on bush....

....he makes people like me feel like we could become president....you know, like no one is too stupid for the job....

....dumbfu*ks of the world unite, against unfair expectations!....