Saturday, August 05, 2006

Bush Slept In History Class

The Raw Story | Ambassador claims shortly before invasion, Bush didn't know there were two sects of Islam: "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. . ."

Somehow, at my non-Ivy League college, getting a non-history/political science degree, I managed to take three courses that talked about the nature and structure of Islam. Hmmm. Go figure.

But George of the Ivy League somehow missed it. That just about says it. Read the rest if you can stand it.

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