Bush is unfit for Office and the Robertson quote proves it

[unfrigginreal]

Now we know why Bush never prepared the public for the fierce struggle we would face in Iraq. Our troops deserve a Commander in Chief that approaches sending them into harms way with recognition of the possible costs of life and limb.

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Robertson: I warned Bush on Iraq casualties
President's response: 'We're not going to have any'

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties."

Pat Robertson, an ardent Bush supporter, said he had that conversation with the president in Nashville, Tennessee, before the March 2003 invasion. He described Bush in the meeting as "the most self-assured man I've ever met in my life."

"You remember Mark Twain said, 'He looks like a contented Christian with four aces.' I mean he was just sitting there like, 'I'm on top of the world,' " Robertson said on the CNN show, "Paula Zahn Now."

"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 had better prepare the American people for casualties.' "

Robertson said the president then told him, "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/robertson.bush.iraq/

[BlueEyedSon]

1. A stupid, ignorant, unfeeling man. nt

[cthrumatrix]

23. I would all him "dangerous" playing with "our childrens lives"

[acmavm]

2. And that one statement perfectly illustrates how out of touch and

arrogant this man is. So out of touch and arrogant that he's become not only a danger to us, but the entire planet. After all this death and destruction, after he found out that yes, dumbass, there will be casualties, he still says he was right and would do it all again.

Everyone needs to read this story.

[Aunt Anti-bush]

3. There are ALOT of things that prove it.

That's why I am so amazed there are still so many people out there who back him simply because he says he is a Christian. Satan can say he's Christian but that just doesn't make it so.

[unfrigginreal]

4. It's because they don't know him

The media has had his back since he began his run for the 2000 election.
This quote should be running all over the airwaves this morning and I haven't heard a peep about it. The media is not only a disgrace to themselves they are a danger to the public.

[Flubadubya]

5. Shows how ignorant Robertson AND Bush are...

You know Robertson would never wittingly say anything that he thought might hurt Bush, but that's exactly what he did. He exposed the Moran's ignorance and incompetence in that one statement, but Pat is so "blinded by the right", that he thinks God will uphold Bush on anything he says or does.

The stupid f**k doesn't even realize that he just exposed his "idol" as an ingoramous nincompoop who everyone should be horrified is President of the United States.

I think they need to bring his sorry ass on more often and tell some even more revealing things about Junior. Bwahahaha!!!!

[gavodotcom]

6. This had better be big enough for the White House to respond.

Either Bush disenfranchises the 700 morons who follow the always outspoken but seldom well-spoken Robertson by saying he was misquoted and Robertson doesn't know what he's talking about, or if it is true, Bush draw the ire of everybody else.


And just to get your dander up, read this again about who Robertson and Falwell say were responsible for 9/11:

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

9/13/2001

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Hmmm. Is there a schism in the Taliban Admin over this?

I find it interesting that Robertson is distancing himself from the President in any way shape or form.

[jimshoes]

8. All I can say is

Thank you Al Gore for the internet(s). This country would be so doomed if we only had the corporate media to give us the news.

[jimshoes]

9. duplicate

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. And even though CNN on tv sucks on account of "losing" contact

with interviewees with opposing views, at least the folks running the website are putting up interesting pics of *

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. More proof that Bush is a delusional madman

A voice inside his head told him to go to war and he was convinced that there wouldn't be any casualties? How incompetent do you have to be to be removed from office in this country? If this wasn't so scary I would laugh.

[Bronco69]

12. I saw that interview last night.

I think it was intended as a way for Patsy Robertson to backpedal from his statement earlier in the year that bush* would "win in a walk." Basically he said that what he meant by that statement is that bush* was a "man of god" and no matter what he did it had to be right because he was on the side of god. Damn, this guy turns my stomach!

[Guaranteed]

13. Oh, those bullet- and explosive-proof soldier-bubbles

must have never showed up.

[Dob Bole]

14. I recall that Robertson was strongly against * killing Karla Faye Tucker

Pat Robertson seems to find his conscience sometimes, moreso than other members of the religious right.

[DenverDem]

19. Surely you jest!!

This is a guy driven by money and power. He makes deals with African dictators for diamond mines and runs CIA weapons drops in "Operation Blessing" airplanes.

I worked for his TV station in Dallas in the 80's and they were committing tax fraud by the millions of dollars while paying the staff poorly because it was "a ministry". The money they made there built CBN as a "non profit" tax free religious satellite network that pat switched to a for profit Family Channel that he then sold for a hundred million to ABC.

robertson is a cynical crook and anything he says is calculated to further his own sinister agenda. To have a conscience one must first have a soul.

[AntiCoup2K4]

21. Yet he sure did an about face on the man who killed her

...and not only that, but openly mocked her on live TV - which definitely was not a Christian response.

Pat ran for President himself against Poppy in 1988, so obviously he wasn't a big fan of the BCE then, or up to the point that Junior killed his favorite prison evangelist. Wonder what flipped him over to their side?

And no, I don't believe it was God's idea.

[DrFunkenstein]

15. We're Gonna 'Shock and Awe' Them Out Of Their Huts

Major metropolitan areas, whatever. The point is that they'll all be dead by the time the ground forces arrive. And any leftovers will just stand on the highways charging at the tanks in brightly colored clothing.

Now I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed...

[unfrigginreal]

16. Begala just mentioned it on Imus

this thing should grow major legs.

[Guaranteed]

20. SERIOUS legs.

This is SO FREAKING TELLING.

The man is INSANE.

[DemocracyInaction]

17. Even a child would know that the term "war" automatically means

there will be casualties - even the most surgical of strikes. If this fool is so braink baked, on drugs or booze, that he can think like this, he truly (and not saying this as a partisan) is insane or mentally deficient. Are the youngin's and their parents really going to believe that he will not start a draft after statements like this?? He has a lot more war on his mind and they are his fodder. In fact on any issue, people have to be nuts to vote for him. He thinks the middle class will be able to survive with falling incomes and higher prices, thus let his corporate pigs stick it to them. He thinks people who are uninsured can afford healthcare. He thinks the entire senior population (and boomers as they get there) don't need either ss or medicare. There is no reality in this man because he has never had to really do anything in his whole useless life.

[DrFunkenstein]

18. Perhaps He Was Thinking Of Kosovo

n/t

[Supersedeas]

22. "like a contented Christian with four aces" - when do real Christians

assume that they have four aces?

Is * so self assured that he is beyond sin or error?
Don't sound very Christian to me.

Humility dismissed.

[BamaGirl]

24. The man is clearly insane.

And I'm begining think his entire base is too. I'm glad Robertson made the mistake of saying this on CNN. Hopefully, someone with integrity will run with it.