For Once We Can Thank Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson just announced that Bush claimed the Iraq war would have no US casualties. Now this is rediculous. In any military effort, casualties are a given. Just take a look at how many soldiers are killed every year due to accident. The main thing here is that even considering the possibility of zero casualties is rediculous at best. More so, Robertson is an ex-marine. Now he doesn't rank high on my list of trusting individuals, I mean the man prays for liberal judges to die and he's more than once threatened homosexuals saying he'd kill them and hope god didn't notice. Thing is, even conservatives are starting to question the Bush administration in more areas than one. If Robertson is to be believed, he asked Bush if we should be preparing the nation for casualties, and Bush told him there would be none. So we've got one guy who's not even directly involved with concern because Bush is such an icon of the religious right, and you have the President himself just avoiding the question of casualties in an obviously difficult attack. Sure Rummy and the boys had their swift scorched Earth tactics with more technology and less soldiers, but it was still an experimental tactic and a shaky one at that. Josh mentioned sloppy. It wasn't so much that the manuever was sloppy as the administration was sloppy in covering all bases before promoting with rose colored glasses the exact opposite of what every uniformed military officer expected.