Posted on 08/22/2005 8:42:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a "terrific danger" to the United States.
Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said on "The 700 Club" it was the United States' duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a "launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Electronic pages and a message to a Robertson spokeswoman were not immediately returned Monday evening.
Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier of oil to the United States. The CIA estimates that U.S. markets absorb almost 59 percent of Venezuela's total exports.
Venezuela's government has demanded in the past that the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" in Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez.
Robertson accused the United States of failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002.
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said.
"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
According to the book of Revelation, upon Christ's imminent return, the nations will attempt to make war against Him, at which point He will destroy them all, with a vengeance.
What DID Jesus do?
During Christ's first advent, He arrived as a sacrificial Lamb, in order to reconcile man with God, thus ending the enmity that separated us.
Have been feeling similarly for many months about the cancer on the hemisphere.
Chavez is a self-proclaimed fierce enemy. He is cooperating with China and other Communist states toward our downfall.
That's sufficient, for me.
I completely agree with Robertson on this issue and I hope we actually do it soon.
As a peace-loving Christian, I am ready and willing to fight for Peace.
I agree. Chavez is a first class troublemaker to US interests. And while we're at it, knock off Fidel too.
bluepistolero
This guy is a serious whack job. My fiance' asked me if I was talking about Chavez or Robertson. My answer?
Yes.
Frankly, I've never found much I didn't agree with P.R. on and I think he would have really cleaned House in D.C. if he had been given the chance.
Ditto. But I think P.R. would have been a better fit for most folks in 1776, then 2005. ;^)
This is an incredibly stupid, thoughtless statement. Hugo Chavez is absolute garbage, but this bone-headed statement by Robertson only feeds into a perception of us in that part of the world that Chavez knows how to exploit.
Leave it to someone in the Latin American world to travel down the road of political nostalgia by resurrecting radical chic in the form of Castro worship. Castro is what he is today only because the Soviet Union needed mercenary soldiers and a toe-hold in the Americas. The U.S. should do to Chavez what it should have done long ago to Castro. The world would have been far better off with a Cuba that was the world's largest offshore casino and whore house than what it got by Kennedy blinking in his confrontation with the USSR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468694/posts?page=3#3
So you can't prove it. Figures.
Here we go again....
Merely agreeing with one's statement isnt directly calling for it. Nice try though.
Are you a commie lover?
I'm not in agreement with you, Pat Robertson, or Chavez. Now that that is out of the way, what's your problem?
"Now that that is out of the way, what's your problem?"
You tell me-- You're the one pinging me with cutesy little game of "gotcha" although it fell short.
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