HoustonChronicle.com – Robertson: Bush said no casualties in Iraq
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he warned President Bush before U.S. troops invaded Iraq that the United States would sustain casualties but that Bush responded, “Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.”
Robertson, in an interview with CNN that aired Tuesday night, said God had told him that the war would be messy and a disaster. When he met with Bush in Nashville before the war Bush did not listen to his advice, Robertson said, and believed Saddam Hussein was an evil tyrant who needed to be removed.
“He was just sitting there, like, ‘I’m on top of the world,’ and I warned him about this war,” Robertson said.
“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.’ ‘Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘it’s the way it’s going to be.’ And so, it was messy. The lord told me it was going to be, A, a disaster and, B, messy.”
… which is part of the reason why I hope Bush loses. Pride and ego are the things that cause most of the pain and suffering in the world.
I agree that Saddam needed to be removed, but Bush’s lack of planning and foresight was embarassing.
If you break it, you buy it … we are stuck with the job of fixing Iraq.
Pat Robertson is the devil. God talks to him? Where is the Inquistion when we need it? Who listens to this man? People with 50- iq. Not to say Bush knows WTF
Our war dead, all the civilian casualties, and the victims of beheadings and kidnappings, such as the latest one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3946673.stm
All this, and the death of American credibility abroad, can be laid at the doorstep of one man–George W. Bush. It makes me sick.
I don’t believe Bush told Robertson there would be no casualties, I simply don’t believe it. It’s not that I’m a strong Bush supporter, but rather I simply don’e believe he’s ever say that to Robertson. Statements like that from Robertson should come with come proof.
“God told him that the war would be messy”…
Really Pat. What a stretch! It’s a good thing that you had divine intervention to tell you that a freaking war would have casualties. Perhaps instead of asking your deity for answers to the obvious, you might ask him/she/it something more interesting like whether there was a lone gunman on the grassy knoll or maybe something useful and poignant like the location of Osama.