The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tVoici des extraits :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00ab 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb 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!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Research by RAW STORY has confirmed a surprising lack of public statements from the president regarding the branches of Islam, but did uncover at least one mention of their existence. A fact sheet released by the White House in December of 2001 does indeed use the term Sunni to describe a Lashkar-E-Tayyib, the armed wing of the Pakistan-based religious organization, Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad. Other mentions, not originating from the White House, were common in government documents and proceedings, as well as in media coverage of the middle east.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Other reports also place Bush announcing newfound knowledge of the differences between Muslim groups shortly before entering the Iraq war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb In an interview with RAW STORY, Ambassador Galbraith recounted this anecdote from his book to exemplify a culture of arrogance that pervaded the whole administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb From the president and the vice president down through the neoconservatives at the Pentagon, there was a belief that Iraq was a blank slate on which the United States could impose its vision of a pluralistic democratic society, said Galbraith. The arrogance came in the form of a belief that this could be accomplished with minimal effort and planning by the United States and that it was not important to know something about Iraq.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 5 ao\u00fbt 2006 \u00e0 17H43<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La question de la culture de base (de l’inculture de base) de GW Bush a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 un dossier fourmillant d’anecdotes entendues et de clins d’yeux complices. Hors de ce folklore sympathique, force est de constater que, dans certains cas, cette inculture soul\u00e8ve de tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieuses questions. C’est le cas lorsqu’on nous apprend que, jusqu’au… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4256,4017,3198,5732,5331,5332,4257],"class_list":["post-67841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-chiite","tag-galbraith","tag-gw","tag-inculture","tag-raw","tag-story","tag-sunnite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}