Robertson said almost the exact same thing on HARDBALL on 6/22!!

[omnithrope]

BROWN: I want to ask you how you feel about the war in Iraq. And if God is calling this war a disaster, does that mean that he is actually opposed to it?

ROBERTSON: Well, I don‘t think God‘s opposed to the war, necessarily, but it was a danger sign. I felt very uneasy about it from the very get-go. Whenever I heard about it, I knew it was going to be trouble. I warned the president. I only met with him once. I said, You better prepare the American people for some serious casualties. And he said, Oh, no, our troops are, you know, so well protected, we don‘t have to worry about that. But it has been messy. And I think we‘re going to come out of it, though. I think we‘ll have a free Iraq. But it certainly has been a mess so far.

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The transcript is here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5277869/

[unfrigginreal]

1. Damn, nice catch!

:thumbsup:

[omnithrope]

4. A friend caught it and told me. Thanks Lousydog!

I can't take credit for it. =)

[lousydog]

16. you're welcome,

but I found the link on one of the Daily Kos diaries. Please forward congratulatory sentiments to that cat.

[omnithrope]

17. Welcome to DU, Lousydog.

First post, huh?! =)

[newyawker99]

22. Hi lousydog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[qanda]

2. Why oh why are you having to do the media's job for them?

Just tell me why!

[grumpy old fart]

25. Ain't that the truth

The media corpse has dropped the ball, as usual, on this most revealing issue...

[Rockholm]

27. Someone has to do it!

Maybe we could get mini "journalism" degrees for doing such deep work.
I can think of 2 dozen DUers that would earn them right off the bat!

[Bjornsdotter]

3. Excellent catch! n/t

[librechik]

5. welcome omnithrope. You are a god.

:thumbsup:

[Robbie67]

6. "Well, I don‘t think God‘s opposed to the war, "

Anyone who's in a position of authority or influence should never say such a thing.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

26. And your point is?

[LynzM]

30. Because he definitely knows that.

Erm, whatever happened to 'thou shalt not kill'? 'Love thy neighbor'? Etc., etc.? Makes me nuts that these guys think they can speak for God...

[Texas_Dem]

7. Shrub: I never said that. That 's one of them EX-AGG-ER-A-SHUNS

ala Bin "Don't Care Much About" Laden.

[grannylib]

14. Wasn't that a hoot? * sounds like a second-grader trying hard to

"read with ex-pres-shun"
or giving a report on a book he hasn't read...

[Awsi Dooger]

8. As much as I despise Tim Russert's typical slant

He's the only current TV journalist who seems to do a good job retrieving old quotes and nailing the candidate/politician with them. Hardly surprising no one on the major networks bothered to cross-check Robertson's comment with others he made on the same topic.

[mcg]

9. I remember Robertson saying something like this a while ago.

I didn't sense that Robertson was lying.

Maybe this interview is what I remember, but I don't know. He might have said it elsewhere also. It's worth looking into.

Apparently there was no denial at the time about this from Bush or his minions, at least none that I've heard of.

My gut feeling is that Robertson is telling the truth about this.

[Thrill]

10. Kerry Campaign wake the heck up

and get this on an ad

[juliagoolia]

15. i think the campaigns and the media

are reading us..SO WE NEED TO KEEP THIS SECOND QUOTE KICKED UP HERE.

[unfrigginreal]

11. "we don‘t have to worry about that"

I wonder what the families of the dead and wounded troops would think about that statement.

[omnithrope]

12. my wife and I were just saying the same thing.

nt

[peacetalksforall]

13. He says - "I think we‘ll have a free Iraq. "

Who the heck is he - Pat Robertson? Who is God or who is any of us open our mouths to say that we have to make Iraq free. What the heck is it about our pompous and assanine minds that we have to go in and save someone politically? This is so ridiculous, why can't people see it.

We didn't have to go into Iraq. We didn't have to go into Haiti. We didn't have to try to takeover Venezuela. And that is just in the last 1 1/2 year.

Who the heck do we think we are?

Let other people be.

If you going in to rob the oil or any other earth resource - admit it. And stop it.

[Thrill]

18. kick

Kerry campaign needs to see this

[debatepro]

19. kick

kix

[debatepro]

20. ttt

kick

[Texas_Dem]

21. Spoken like a man who thinks war happens on weekends, in the Texas

National Guard and in between all night drinking binges.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Huh! And Tweety hasn't scooped his own story?

[Skinner]

24. Good catch.

:thumbsup:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

28. On CNN they said Robertson also said the same thing in 2003

I think it was on Judy WouldBluff.

[TexasSissy]

29. Not quite the same thing. But close.

His statement this time was that * said there would NO casualties.

The statement you've posted above says that * said there wouldn't be "that." Robertson had just referred to "serious casualties." So could be * was referring to "no serious casualties." Meaning not a lot of casualties.