The Allen Almanac

The fmr. Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, is claiming in his new book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End, that President Bush was unaware that there were 2 major sects of Islam as recently as 2 months before the Iraq war. As seen on The Raw Story:

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!”

It sounds absurd, but nothing would surprise me at this point. There was obviously a severe miscalculation of the situation in Iraq.