Flashback: Bush Didn't Know There Were Sunni And Shiite Muslims Two Months Before Invading Iraq

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From tonight's SOTU:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23321069.htm

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He said al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who has not yet been found by U.S. forces, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq who was killed by U.S. forces, and their Sunni extremist followers were just one camp in the Islamist radical movement.

"In recent times, it has also become clear that we face an escalating danger from Shia (Shi'ite) extremists who are just as hostile to America, and are also determined to dominate the Middle East," Bush said in a prepared text of his remarks.

"Many are known to take direction from the regime in Iran, which is funding and arming terrorists like Hezbollah -- a group second only to al Qaeda in the American lives it has taken," Bush said.

"The Shia (Shi'ite) and Sunni extremists are different faces of the same totalitarian threat," he said.

hmm...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/08/04/bush-didnt-know-there-we_n_26528.html

Bush Didn't Know There Were Sunni And Shiite Muslims Two Months Before Invading Iraq...

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.