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!”
The man has a hard time grasping that their are different sects in the the Islamic faith. Is he even aware that all Christians don't follow the same doctrine? Seriously.
Bush don't need knowledge. He makes decisions based on his gut.
Hat tip to David Scott Anderson.
The only problem with this story is that it is demonstrably untrue:
ReplyDelete"If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will cease persecution of its civilian population, including Shi'a, Sunnis, Kurds, Turkomans, and others, again as required by Security Council resolutions." -- G.W. Bush to the UN months before the alleged meeting.
Now why on earth would you take the word of some dude you've never heard of (who happens to have a book coming out) about something this patently absurd? Do you not know how to use google?
This guy is going to sell a lot of books to intellectually lazy leftists, though.
By that same logic I could say is why could take the word of a commenter who won't even leave his real neme.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many examples of Bush not knowing what the hell he is talking about. He got confused about his own economic policies on the 2000 campaign trail. You want to pay shoot the messanger then go ahead.
Bush once got Sweden and Switzerland confused.