Pat Robertson says he warned Bush war would be ugly

[link|http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/20/politics/main650331.shtml|CBS]

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he warned President Bush before U.S. troops invaded Iraq that the United States would sustain casualties but that Mr. 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 the war would be messy and a disaster. When he met with Mr. Bush in Nashville, Tenn., before the war Mr. 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."

Weird. I would say he is trying to distance himself from the White House a bit, but with Robertson you can never tell.

Jay

Post #215,251 by JayMehaffey 7/17/05 7:53:59 PM Reply	Pat Robertson says he warned Bush war would be ugly [link\|http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/20/politics/main650331.shtml\|CBS] Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he warned President Bush before U.S. troops invaded Iraq that the United States would sustain casualties but that Mr. 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 the war would be messy and a disaster. When he met with Mr. Bush in Nashville, Tenn., before the war Mr. 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." Weird. I would say he is trying to distance himself from the White House a bit, but with Robertson you can never tell. Jay
Post #215,254 by Andrew Grygus 7/17/05 8:22:33 PM Reply	The right needs a scapegoat . . . . . and is starting to groom one, and his name is George W. Bush - lame duck. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #215,255 by Ashton 7/17/05 8:23:26 PM Reply	That leaves only the obvious conclusion, then - Jesus is playing fast & loose with the wide-open jelloware of both these loonies.. at least, then.. He's still got a sense of cosmic humor. +3
Post #215,274 by inthane-chan 7/17/05 11:26:56 PM Reply	Hasn't this been floating around for a while? I seem to remember hearing something like this at least a year ago... apt-get install godlike-powers
Post #215,278 by JayMehaffey 7/17/05 11:37:28 PM Reply	Your right The article actually dates from last year. I don't remember seeing it before, and CBS has a confusing format that puts the current date and time near the top of every page in a way that sorta looks like it is the date for the current article. I do always check the date on news articles I post for exactly this reason, it's very easy to confuse something historical for current news. Jay
Post #215,289 by tuberculosis 7/18/05 1:00:37 AM Reply	LRPD: Perhaps if we built this large wooden lemur... "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #215,350 by warmachine 7/18/05 12:19:02 PM Reply	Ignoring a lunatic is news? Good grief! Someone believes that a sky god literally talks to him and he still gets air time. As it's unpatriotic to laugh about Bush, people laugh about Robertson instead. That's evil. Matthew Greet Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? - Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
Post #215,353 by boxley 7/18/05 12:33:07 PM Reply	pity the fool who doesnt hear godspeak if you dont hear the little voices inside your head, you are taking too much medication. thanx, bill Just call me Mr. Lynch \\ Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #215,354 by jb4 7/18/05 12:35:28 PM Reply	I thought you took medication to hear the voices (At least, that's why I took that sort of medication....) jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #215,361 by pwhysall 7/18/05 12:44:45 PM Reply	Did you smoke your medication... ...or ingest it on little pieces of blotting paper? Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #215,376 by jb4 7/18/05 1:42:02 PM Reply	I'll take the Fifth ...but let me say right now that I did inhale, and I enjoyed it.... jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #215,381 by boxley 7/18/05 1:55:14 PM Reply	you took a fifth and "still" didnt hear voices? Just call me Mr. Lynch \\ Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #215,382 by bepatient 7/18/05 1:57:10 PM Reply	If he did.. ..after the fifth he probably didn't remember what they said anyway. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #215,388 by jb4 7/18/05 2:24:15 PM Reply	Not voices... ...but the pink pachyderms were nice.... jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #215,441 by ben_tilly 7/18/05 4:46:35 PM Reply	ICLRPD (new thread) Created as new thread #215440 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=215440\|ICLRPD] I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

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