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."
Pete McCloskey is probably not on his Christmas Card mailing list.
"...is it that only Christians have the right to demand the deaths of others?"
Oh please. If I'd said that anyone should die or be killed, or even thought it, I'd be on my knees in the Confessional asking pardon..
Poor guy. He's lost it...
If you are Christian, then you are Jewish!"
I know because Jesus told us of a New Way. I know because I don't know of one single recorded word that ever came from Jesus' mouth that in any way gives a green light for what Robertson said.
"He doesn't pray to statues and dead men and women."
Hmmm... Well, I do, along with the Pope. (I won't even attempt to explain why we do because I don't think you really even care to know. I think you'd rather be able to talk about "those Catholics" that pray to statues and dead people.)
A Catholic bacher. I new it long before I finished your post.
Maybe a meteor will fall on him...problem solved.
So some slack-jawed snake-handling shyster sky-pilot shoots off his fat mouth about matters he knows nothing about.
This is hardly news. Does Paris Hilton have an opinion about Chavez? Should we publish it?
I'll lay odds her IQ is higher than Robertson's - he's a fargin' maroon!.
Death to all terrorists
I haven't read any of this thread yet, but: Good for you Pat! You are absolutely correct. We should kill this bum, along with the Islamo-Facists.
Just think of all the fun that the world has missed out on for the last 50 years.
LOL! Very close to home.
I am a Christian, but fundamentalist televangelists irk me. Specially since they've got such a big following of people that hang on every word that they say. They need to act more responsibly. As scripture says, "theirs is the greater condemnation."
I certainly hope you've learned your freeper lesson.
LOL! You will learn to ignore some people around here. They wait for a chance to Christian bash. Even if it means sticking up for a dictator like Chavez.
His reasons were pure, and he used sanctified bombs.
It was God doing the sanctioning, not those who think so highly of themselves to assume that they speak for him.
Pat Robertson is really a hoo-doo shaman for whom "God" is simply a source of supernatural power that can be invoked to call down curses upon his enemies.
However, there is no need to 'telegragh' this stuff.
Take out Castro with him. The job was left by a DEM alone time ago. Communism still is evil and must be stopped.
Had John Kennedy not chickened out and gone after Casto and the commies in Cuba, we wouldn't be faciing this problem now.
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