Reading this Cenk Uygur rant pointed me at this Raw Story report. "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."
Apparently this isn't quite news. A New York Times Magazine article from early 2003, that I won't pay to search for, said he didn't know the difference in Sept 2002.
The Raw Story article goes on about Galbraith's ideas. "the invasion of Iraq destabilized the Middle East while inadvertently strengthening Iran. One of the administration's intentions in invading Iraq was to undermine Iran, but instead, the Iraqi occupation has given Tehran one of its greatest strategic triumphs in the last four centuries."
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This was also the subject of a joke in the movie American Dreamz, where Dennis Quaid played the President (clearly meant to parody Bush). Check out the beginning of the movie's trailer.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/americandreamz/
Maybe parody isn't the right word, maybe it's portray.
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