Sunday, August 06, 2006

Note to President: Wahhabi has Nothing to do with Sushi
I've always joked to friends that Bush would become confused if he ever went to a Japanese restaurant with King Abdullah and Wahhabism came up. Or, I though I was joking.

Peter Galbraith, our former ambassador to Croatia, claims in a new book that prior to the invasion of Iraq Bush didn't know there were two main sects of Islam. I guess this isn't surprising for a man who reads the bible everyday(scroll down) but won't read a newspaper. From the article at rawstory:

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's astounding, frightening, and depressing all at once.