Saturday, August 5, 2006

Bush didn't know there were two sects of Islam


The Truth Stranger Than Fiction
You know the story about him living in a bubble takes a turn for the truth when you find out he didn't know there were two sects of Islam.   You can't make this kind of stuff up...   - fc


Ambassador claims shortly before invasion, Bush didn't know there were two sects of Islam



By Christian Avard

Published: Friday August 4, 2006



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!"



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