According to the website of the magazine Rollingstone, US president Bush didn’t know Shiite from Sunni before he made the decision to invade Iraq. According to Tim Dickinson, from the magazine, 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. [Peter] Galbraith apparently reported that the three of them spent some time explaining to Bush that there are two different religious currents in Islam–to which the President allegedly responded, “I thought the Iraqis were Muslims!”.
"Just shoot me" - wrote Tim Dickinson in the website...
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