Reply #7: Now he starts to look @ the problems? [View All]

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<Participants said Mr. Bush appeared serious and engaged during the lunch, which lasted more than 90 minutes, as the experts went through a lengthy discussion of the political, ethnic, religious and security challenges in Iraq.>

Dept. of Closing the Barn Door After the Horse is Gone



<More generally, the participants said, the president expressed frustration that Iraqis had not come to appreciate the sacrifices the United States had made in Iraq, and was puzzled as to how a recent anti-American rally in support of Hezbollah in Baghdad could draw such a large crowd. “I do think he was frustrated about why 10,000 Shiites would go into the streets and demonstrate against the United States,” said another person who attended.>

Dept. of Everybody tried to tell bush that the Shi ites would take over.

* did not know about Sunnis and Shi ites just weeks before he started this mess.