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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 03:54 PM Jun 2014

Pat Robertson on Bush/Iraq war "We were sold a bill of goods!’"

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday blasted former President George W. Bush for selling Americans a “bill of goods” before the Iraq invasion, which led to the violence that is currently sweeping across the country.

During his Monday broadcast, a viewer asked Robertson if there was a solution to the ongoing violence caused by an al Qaeda splinter group, ISIS, threatening to take over Iraq.

“Right now, what we did — and it was a great mistake to go in there,” Robertson explained, pointing out that Saddam Hussein’s “bomb maker” had said that the then-dictator “doesn’t know how to make an atomic bomb.”

“And so to sell the American people on weapons of mass destruction, he had WMD and was getting [concentrated uranium] yellowcake out of Africa and all of that, it was a lot of nonsense,”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/16/pat-robertson-unloads-on-bush-for-latest-iraq-crisis-we-were-sold-a-bill-of-goods/


I was with him right up until he said the only solution is to wait for the Antichrist to compel the Second Coming.

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deutsey

(20,166 posts)
1. I remember seeing him once back in the mid- to late-'80s
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 04:01 PM
Jun 2014

actually saying something to the effect that you don't have to like Jesse Jackson to see that the growing economic disparity between the haves and have-nots in America was a bad thing. He even showed a chart demonstrating that the rich were getting richer and poor were getting poorer.

I guess the law of averages predicts that he'll say something reasonable once every few decades, kind of like the roomful of monkeys banging on typewriters eventually writing a line from Shakespeare.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. So what was he saying before?
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 04:02 PM
Jun 2014
We've won the war already, and for the Democrats to say we can't win it -- what kind of a statement is that? And furthermore, one of the fundamental principles we have in America is that the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces and attempts to undermine the commander in chief during time of war amounts to treason.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2005/12/12/robertson-called-democratic-war-criticism-treas/134414

Fuck Pat Robertson with a rusty pineapple.
 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
4. WOW! RW Christian heads will be exploding all over America when they hear this.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 05:16 PM
Jun 2014

Finally they are starting to get it. Took 11 years but hey.

Quixote1818

(28,904 posts)
7. As you said, it was a very good analysis until the Second Coming part at the end.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 05:27 PM
Jun 2014

It's amazing how smart he can be on a few issues and so dumb on most others.
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