Bush didn't know there were two Islamic sects

[greenman3610]

this is not the first time I have heard this story.
anyone else have another source for this?


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


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!”

[bluesbassman]

1. Is there anything he does know?

He's like the guy locked in a round, windowless room. If you give him three bowling balls, he'd break one, lose the second, and try to eat the third!

[MADem]

2. He's an idiot. And actually , there are more than two!

There are two major ones, though...and lotsa folks don't get it that these two groups DON'T LIKE EACH OTHER...

Each considers the other HERETICAL, and it's all to do with the line of succession from the Prophet Muhamed (MPBUH). It's why you see the odd black turbans in shi'a Islam, those clowns are claiming a direct line of descent from the prophet himself. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2004/12/15/neocons_in_black_turbans.php

[Warren DeMontague]

3. C'mon. Bush knows all about sects.

Like, "No sects before marriage!"