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://tinyurl.com/eldhs

I've been reading stories like the above for several months now. Also there's a great clip from the FRESH AIR radio show from April '03 of the 'genious' William Kristol describing discussions of the difference between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraqi society as 'pop sociology'.

Isn't it beyond mere garden variety irony that it's these people who now say that we (concerned, non-moronic American citizens) don't "understand the conflict in Iraq"?

When did they ever understand?

I truly hope for Democratic majority in at least one house of Congress and that some of the progressive elements therein get a chance to ask these questions and get some answers.
The current Idiocracy has to be thwarted soon.
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