God wouldn't let his "other" son down...

In the wake of the Bush Administration's shameful lack of funding for the Veterans Administration to deal with war casualties, Digby reminds us of one of the most incredible claims about Dear Leader:

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."

White House and campaign advisers denied Bush made the comment, with adviser Karen Hughes saying, "I don't believe that happened. He must have misunderstood or misheard it."

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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 Bush in Nashville, Tenn., 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."

Now, of course, both of these scrotum tuggers (feel free to use that one in your own posts) are delusional, as each thinks God communicates with them directly. But if Robertson is telling the truth, what an incredible statement -- and considering who it comes from, it is still shocking that more coverage wasn't given to this incredible bit of naivete, so profound that it would almost require committment papers.