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    When Did Bush Learn about Sunnis and Shiites?

    In my research on the Iraq War, I have been looking for information on what American officials knew about the country they were about to invade. In 2006, the press reported on what I found to be a remarkable claim. As of January 2003, two months before the invasion, Bush supposedly did not know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites. Given the importance of this claim, which if true would speak volumes about how carefully American leaders thought about the postwar, I decid

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