Before the war, Bush was unaware that there was a difference between Shiites and Sunnis. Now granted, I was no expert either, but I’m not the frackin’ President of the United States, either. How dumb is/was is this guy? According to Former Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, he was clueless. In his new book (The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End) Galbraith claims that the Bush regime knew very little about Iraqi, Iraq society and the problems it would face after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

“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!”

This also explains why Bush can’t coherently explain what an “insurgent” is, and in fact he has called them “ordinary Iraqis”. RawStory writes that a year after the “Axis of Evil” speech, Bush met with experts who said it became very clear to them that Bush was clueless about the different religious groups within Iraq and the potential problems with attempting to force them to merge and all be like one another under Bush’s utopian veil of “democracy, freedom and liberty”. Those words to Bush seem to represent a 1950’s version of American society where everything is shiny and old-fashioned, and capitalism thrives and people spend all their time thinking about money and how to make more of it. That would have provide the U.S. with decades of controlling cheap oil. That the Bush regime is still going ahead in pursuing this utopian plan, despite all that has transpired in the last 3 years and not taking into account how much of Iraq despises us, is madness. Instead, Bush will be adding more American soldiers (aka “targets”) to the fray in hopes of calming down the super-violent Bahgdad. As Gen. John P. Abizaid testified before the Senate last week, we needed to at least control Baghdad, and we’ve lost that. As a result, Iraq is now embroiled in a horrible civil war, all because our ignorant “leader” had no concept of what he was getting into. Time Magazine says that Baghdad is already in a civil war which it calls “Life In Hell”. My question is: what is our punishment for doing this to a country? Not just one country but at least two. Look at these satellite photos of Beirut, courtesy of Juan Cole’s website.

Submitted by Shelly of Citizen Against Lies.