Bush did not know difference between Sheite and Sunni |
This is not a cheap shot at Jr. It is the painful reality of what happened and a major reason why things are so screwed-up right now in Iraq. Bush did not have a clue what he was getting the nation into. More disturbingly, he ignored all the advices of state and CIA officials who are expert on Iraq and may be trusted to give neutral advice about the situation. Instead he listened to the voices God, Pearl and Wolfowitz were planting in his head (wait for future posts).
The moron did not know that Sheite are many factions; hell, he did not even know that there is a difference between Sunni and Sheite. How did this ignorance translate into a fatal mistake which the troops are paying a lot of blood for? Well, he allied himself with the worst Sheite faction, the one loyal to the diseased Khomeni and Iran. The assets under the command of those shmucks is highly unlikely to have initially exceeded 20,000 armed hecks, not enough to control a part of Baghdad. He gave them control of the ministry of interior and virtually unlimited support of the US military. Directed by Iran, they viscously exploited this blunder to start forming their morbid death squads and start a wave of random killing which, at its peak and according to human right groups, harvest the life of more than 180 Sunni a day; most of which are ordinary civilians and have nothing to do with the resistance.
When the Iraqi resistance started, experts estimated that it did not have the baking of more than 8% of the Sunni population. The murderous campaign waged by Khomeni Sheite convinced the Sunni that there is a conspiracy between the US and Iran to annihilate them. Those fears crystalized when Kofi Anan confronted the US ambassador in Bagdad naming the locations of many slaughterhouses used by the ministry of interior and forcing the US military to raid these places and liberate hundreds of kidnaped civilians awaiting a horrible death. This drove the Sunni silent majority to start rooting for the resistence and provide them with what they need to wage effective urban combat operations and, of course, kill more troops.
The criminals also used the authority of the ministry of interior to provide almost 60,000 genocidal, well-trained and well-armed Khomeni guards with official Iraqi IDs. Those criminals have been selected by the Iranian to be fluent in arabic and familiar with the Iraqi habits and way of life.
It seems that finally the US is beginning to realize the size of the mistake that was made. Just last week the US military raided a temple for those lowlifes , I think it is called Bratha. They found a large cache of weapons, 12 victims being tortured, 7 that have been already tortured to death, and 40 bodies in the garden of the temple. They also found hundreds of official IDs with fake names. They closed the place and they used the towel the "Sayed" use to wrap his head with to polish their boots, so what. Now because of the idiot, the troops do not have to only deal with the resistance, there are tens of thousands of deadly lunatics totally embedded with the Iraqi population and waiting for the command to come form Tehran. They also have to deal with those too. This probably will give you an idea what are the chances for success of the latest effort to stabilize Baghdad.
In conclusion, it seems that a C in school may be enough for someone to become a president, but is definitely not enough for someone to act like a president. See also: