"No casualties." This is Bush's loser, for sure.

[blondeatlast]

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."
(snip)

"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."
(snip)

Robertson, the televangelist who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, said he wishes Bush would admit to mistakes made.

(more)

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

No wonder he can't allow the coffins or the casualties to be shown. THEY DON'T EXIST!

[tomfodw]

1. This is a commercial waiting to be made

Juxtapose Robertson talking over shots of - I don't know - coffins, funerals? Maybe that would be too harsh, seem too much like exploiting the dead for political gain. You'd have to test any ad you made with focus groups. But this is definitely a killer.

[Guaranteed]

3. I don't think it'll get legs unless we make FUN of him with it, though.

It won't hit his character until we ridicule him.

[tomfodw]

13. That could backfire -

it could be seen as making light of the casualties. I think it has to be serious, sober, regretful and brief. Straight and to the point. Bush said before the invasion that there wouldn't be any casualties - how can we trust someone so wrong-headed about anything?

[mikehiggins]

2. They aren't casualties, they are martyrs in the struggle against

the Godless Infidel. Every man and woman who falls during this great crusade will certainly find themselves welcomed with great praise at the table of our Holy Savior.

Seriously, if even Robertson is getting uneasy the rest of us should be scared shitless.

Bush is our real American Taliban.

[blondeatlast]

5. The kicker is that Robinson was uneasy in MARCH 2003.

That's when the meeting took place.

This truly does scare me what you said.

:scared:

[secular_warrior]

8. Yep. Gotta worry about America when Pat Robertson is the voice of reason.

:crazy:

[blondeatlast]

9. Creeped out, seriously creeped out. Eww... nt

[MazeRat7]

4. Fact is stranger than fiction

Its just really hard to believe someone would say that -even monkey boy. A war with no casualties... is that like a day without sunshine ?

MZr7

[quaoar]

6. Pat Robertson is anti-war?????????

OMFG!!!!!

I can die now. I've heard it all. When will Wolfowitz come out against it?

[southpaw]

7. Make sure Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, SNL, Keith Olberman etc. get wind of it

They will get it into the public forum, then the 'serious' shows will pick it up...

Just a hunch

[quaoar]

10. This is like the assassination of Julius Caesar

A mob of Republicans gathers around Bush, each one stabbing him in the back. Finally, Bush looks up and sees the head of the Christian Coalition -- the basest of his base. "Et tu, Pat?" he asks as Robertson plunges his dagger in and gives it a "no casualties" twist.

If Robertson is jumping ship, you can expect wholesale abandonment shortly.

[blondeatlast]

12. I don't think Robertson will abandon ship, but big BUT:

This will make many fundamentalist Christians, already uncomfortable with Cheney having a gay in the family, seriously consider staying home on Election Day.

More's the better.

[Harlan James]

11. Maybe It Wasn't God At All

I saw the Paula Zahn segment last night, and Pat (who obviously believes that he is an extraordinarily charming guy), kept talking happily about how Bush is a man of God, and that he has a personal dialog with the Lord.

So who was it then that told Georgie that there would be no casualties in Iraq? Obviously not the same God Pat was talking to...


Maybe it was this guy?

[tinrobot]

14. Kerry said it during the debates

You can be certain and you can be wrong.

Bush was DEAD WRONG.