Pat Robertson is Still a Buffoon

[Doug]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) -- Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007.

"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

"The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

Robertson said God told him about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.

God also said, he claims, that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.


..."I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."

In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006.

Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.

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[Dardedar]

I bet Bush wishes Robertson had kept his mouth shut with regard to the following:

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CNN

Thursday, October 21, 2004

The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties."

Pat Robertson, an ardent Bush supporter, said he had that conversation with the president in Nashville, Tennessee, before the March 2003 invasion U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He described Bush in the meeting as "the most self-assured man I've ever met in my life."

"You remember Mark Twain said, 'He looks like a contented Christian with four aces.' I mean he was just sitting there like, 'I'm on top of the world,' " Robertson said on the CNN show, "Paula Zahn Now."

"And I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, 'Mr. President, you had better prepare the American people for casualties.' "

Robertson said the president then told him, "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."

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DAR
Conveniently (notice the date), Pat Robertson points out his own predictive skills, only well after the fact.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Well he was pretty safe in warning of casualties. You don't start a war without getting them. Americans have a peculiarly self-serving attitude towards casualties. 4 American dead (as in Boston in 1773) are a "massacre" but hundreds of thousands of vietnamese or iraqis or native americans are "collateral damage". The Israelis currently in power have the same delusion - somebody kidnaps 2 Iraqi soldiers so they bomb a city where the captors may (or may not) be hiding. W is a delusional end-time gamer. Nobody ever actually dies in a game. It's all a video game. If it goes belly-up, you put in another quarter (yes, I know I'm dating myself) and get more men.

[Dardedar]

Well he was pretty safe in warning of casualties. You don't start a war without getting them.

DAR
Clinton did.

[LaWood]

>I had deep misgivings about this war<

I noted a few other totalnutjobwacko evangelicals did too.
Afraid it would dry up the "faith-based intiative" bucks?

However, Robertson had no misgivings about assasinating
the duly elected President of Venezuela.
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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

That wasn't exactly a war Clinton started. Airstrikes as part of an international effort to halt genocide is not technically war, although the recipient of same could justifiably consider it an act of war and, if they had the power to do so, declare war under the claim that they'd been attacked by the armed might of a sovereign nation.

Even nutjob preachers aren't totally devoid of reason. The minute you put boots on the ground you get dead boots. A large number of those boots come from families who put their faith in evangelical leaders (not exactly where the big J told them to). Just takin' care of their own when they "have reservations" about starting a religious war.