WP: Bush Predicted No Iraq Casualties, Robertson Says

[Pirate Smile]

The Rev. Pat Robertson said President Bush dismissed his warning that the United States would suffer heavy casualties in Iraq and told the television evangelist just before the beginning of the war that "we're not going to have any casualties."

-snip-

Asked about Bush's mistakes, the evangelist recalled: "I met with him down in Nashville before the Gulf war started. And he was the most self-assured man I ever met in my life." Borrowing a line from Mark Twain, Robertson said Bush looked "like a contented Christian with four aces."

"He was just sitting there, like, I'm on top of the world, and I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, 'Mr. President, you better prepare the American people for casualties,' " Robertson said.

"Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties," Robertson quoted Bush as saying. " 'Well,' I said, 'it's the way it's going to be. . . . The Lord told me it was going to be, A, a disaster and, B, messy.' "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49088-2004Oct20.html

Hopefully, this will grow some more legs tomorrow. The full quote is particularly damning.

[flowomo]

1. LOVE seeing this story spread!

it's a real torpedo in the side of Bush's rowboat

[Pirate Smile]

6. He sounds as happy and content as a big Cheshire Cat about

going to friggin war!

That is disgusting.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Aw....cut shrub some slack......

....he was only off by a thousand or so....

[juliagoolia]

3. UNLESS LIKE CHENEY SAID...YOU COUNT THE IRAQI FOLKS

THAT DIED

[sushi]

13. They don't count,

do they?

[flowomo]

4. actually, 12,000 or so....

"casualties" means dead and wounded

[murielm99]

5. Why is this the first time we are hearing about the Lord

telling Robertson the war would be messy?

I think that is just as important as the "no casualties" business.

All he said before was that the Lord told him * would win in a walk.

What else had God been telling this POS?

[Pirate Smile]

9. We need to really push this tomorrow. This story was around

today and it says a lot about Bush's attitude toward sending men and women to war, but the idiot pundits spent A LOT of time tonight talking about THK's comments about Laura Bush instead.

That is shameful.

Which comment actually says something important about one of the men that wants to be President for the next four years?

[crossroads]

7. Logic says *one* of these wonderful Christian cons is lying!

I wonder who it could be??? :o)
:eyes:

[pacifictiger]

8. Insider information must be sizing things up to be pretty bleak

if self serving Robertson is all of a sudden distancing himself from the pRezzie!!

[sundancekid]

10. that's what I'm talking about tonite ... all over the boards ... that 700

holy roller is SO self-absorbed that he too is setting up his "saving face" pulpit for what their internals tell them ... hopefully, that will also mean that the evangelical fundies will stay home again ... by all means, go pat robertson go, and spread that good news!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Oh boy, things are heating up when even Roberts breaks from

the man he once called the leader of his Church

[rooboy]

12. Gee Pat, it looks like Jesus doesn't like either of you. n/t

[T Bone]

14. Yeah but when the election is over Pat will still have HIS job heheh

and his tv stations and his CLUB. Bush will be back to cuttin' brush.

[Moderator]

15. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this topic, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=920001

Pirate Smile, would you be so kind as to add your Washington Post link to the original thread?

Thanks!

DU Moderato