Bush Foresaw no Casualties in Iraq 

Bush Foresaw no Casualties in Iraq

According to this CNN.com article, George Bush told Pat Robertson that he needn't prepare Americans for casualties going into the Iraq war because "we're not going to have any casualties."

I don't know if Bush really said that or not, but I can't imagine why Robertson, a fervent Bush supporter, would make something like that up. The thing is, from what we now know of how Bush "analyzes" situations, it sounds perfectly consistent with that approach. This is a man who has always believed that the best of many possible outcomes would always prevail and has accordingly failed to plan for any of the other outcomes. And so it is in Iraq. He truly believed that it would be a short bloodless conquest, one of many such, as we transformed the mideast into a greenhouse of democracy. Sadly, as beautiful as that vision is, it couldn't be farther removed from reality. And Bush still doesn't change his thinking. So, what do you say, folks, can we change Presidents now?