[wagglebee]

Just a ping to a few people on some extended thoughts I had on Robertson's call to assassinate Chavez.

[mj anderson]

Was Pat Right? Yes. Chavez needs to go--but Pat's advocacy of assassination is wrong--in my WorldNetDaily commentary
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45985 there is an alternative method that we might employ--but the bigger issue is that so many Americans do not want to deal with the threat of Chavez or China and the Chavez connection--we are sticking our heads in the sand. We are buying more trouble when we delay until the problem requires another engagement on another continent. Chavez is providing a new islamic training ground....
MJ Anderson

[Reagan Man]

Mixing religion and politics is asking for trouble in this political correct world we live in today. Pat Robertson is damned no matter what he says at this point. Robertson probably received endless emails and phonecalls telling him it was un-Christian to say that US Special Forces should accomodate Hugo Chavez with assassination. Maybe it was. Pat has a conscience and he came out with a couple of hapless apologizes for his remarks. So be it. But his original remarks amounted to nothing.

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he (Chavez) thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it."

Big deal! Hugo Chavez is a psychotic dictator, who calls Fidel Castro his mentor, funds Al-Qaeda and is now in possestion of Cuba's biological weapons program. Both men are a danger to US interests. Both men should be taken out. We ignore them at our own peril.

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What about Pinochet or Somoza or Ferdinand Marcos? The Greek colonels or the Argentine generals? Would killing them have been justified? Or is it only anti-American dictators that should be assassinated?

If we object to European courts trying extradite foreign dictators guilty of human rights violations, do we justify Americans killing or supporting the assassination of dictators who oppose the US or contract with our enemies? Or do we, by the same reasoning, support those European courts?

Is Chavez a dictator? He was popularly elected and won a recall election. I'm not saying he's a great guy. He certainly doesn't sound like one. But is he Hitler? Robertson's words brought up a lot of questions that political observers will have to spend a lot of time to solve. Shouldn't preachers and clergymen be more circumspect than journalists and commentators and political scientists?

[melt]

Mr. Robertson suggests knocking off Chavez--- and the MSM goes bananas. But when a Muslim imam calls for a fatwa on somebody like movie director Theo Van Gogh--- not a peep is heard from Hollywood.

The double standard is creepy. Of course, it's no surprise that the MSM and Hollywood have basically called for an internal jihad against America.

[since1868]

Thanks for this.
I stand with what Pat says.He is a realist( although a lot of people will disagree)It would be a lot cleaner and cheaper. He is a real threat to the US and other freedom loving countries.
He also now has brought attention to this man, no news story could of. Chavez needs to worry.