Sunnis...? Shiites...? Ain't never heard of them religions... I thought they were all Muslims...

Dear Leader

i'm curious about how this level of ignorance came to be... personally, i would think that the president of the u.s. would receive such thorough briefings that he couldn't possibly remain ignorant of such critical distinctions... but, then, what do i know...?

In his new book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End, [Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter] 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!”

we've always suspected that bush is just a figurehead... looks like it might be true...

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