“We're not going to have any casualties.”

Pat Robertson claims that Bush said this to him in Nashville, Tennessee before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Bush campaign advisor Karen Hughes, who was not working in Washington at the time of the invasion, claimed in 2004 that Bush did not say this. See John King (2004-10-21), " No casualties? White House disputes Robertson comment http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/robertson.bush.iraq/index.html," CNN.com.
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