[RandiRhodes] ‘I thought the Iraqis were Muslims’

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" Stevo " <blue_meanie_9

Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:11:48 -0700 (PDT)

[RandiRhodes] `I thought the Iraqis were Muslims'

 

 

 

 

`I thought the Iraqis were Muslims'

By: Steve @ 10:59 AM - PDT

Raise your hand if you find this surprising.

 

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! "

 

After 9/11, immediately before the U.S. was poised to invade Iraq, the

president still wasn't aware of the schism that threatened stability

in the country he was about to occupy. Typical.

–Guest Post by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report

http://crooksandliars.com/