Bush Predicted No Iraq Casualties

[Kablooie]

Bush Predicted No Iraq Casualties

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 21, 2004; Page A09

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."

Robertson related the conversation during an interview with CNN late Tuesday. He said he spoke to Bush before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and urged him to prepare the nation for heavy casualties. While Bush's response was a mistake, Robertson said, God has blessed the president anyhow

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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."

[Uben]

1. Hewas only wrong

...over 3200 times!

[lynnertic]

8. remember that casualties are injuries too so he's wrong

tens of thousands of times over.

[Phredicles]

2. I'd long forgotten this - why doesn't it get more play in the press?

Sorry, rhetorical question - I know full well why.:eyes:

[tridim]

3. Bush still chooses Robertson educated lawyers as his cronies

I'd say Pat and idiotboy are joined at the freaking hip. You know things are bad when even Bush's "evangelicals" are jumping ship.

[gratuitous]

4. True to his word

The Bush family hasn't sustained one single casualty from these wars George W. has launched. In fact, their family fortune has no doubt increased substantially from its prosecution. Other people do the dying and you collect the profits from the contracts; what could possibly be better than that? Well, unless you have a shred of humanity and decency, that is.

[SteppingRazor]

7. Exactly. It just depends what the meaning of "we" is. n/t

[indepat]

5. Pat must never have realized W's four aces would lose to a six-high straight flush

Edited to add word

[RiverStone]

6. No Pat, that was with 4 Jokers! n/t