The dumbness of our dumb president

[BobcatJH]

We've all known for quite some time how clueless our dumb president is. Want more proof? Coming right up! From The Raw Story:

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.

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!"

[valerief]

1. Short Bus George. Geesh! n/t

[AndyA]

2. I remember seeing Bush being interviewed before the 2000 elections,

if you want to call them that, and he didn't know who any of the Heads of State were in foreign countries. I couldn't believe someone in politics didn't know the names of notable people around the world, especially ones they would be dealing with if they became President. This was just one of my first glimpses into the idiot that is in residence in The White House, elected or not.

[bluedeminredstate]

3. Stunning.

To plan a war and have no idea of the basic facts of the country being shocked and awed ... Jeebus help the world.

Back when we used to have to use hardback encyclopedias from the library for our social studies reports, where you'd wait until the following YEAR for updated information, most teachers would mark your report down for leaving something so significant out of the facts. It's hard to imagine that what's required of a 4th grader isn't of interest to this completely apathetic "leader."

:eyes:

[chieftain]

4. The sheer breadth of what Incurious George not only

doesn't know but doesn't think he needs to know is a jaw dropping stunner.