From the Associated Press’ Sue Lindsay :
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has suggested that American agents assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming “a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.”
“We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,” Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network’s “The 700 Club.”
“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.”
It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.â€
also against the laws of the united states and the bible but what the hell…
yes, pat is a little to close to the nations of the world to be no part of them as Jesus said.
It’s been reported for years in many credible muckracking journals that Robertson had close business ties (by way of the diamond mining industry) to Mobutu Sese Seko, the late dictator of Zaire. A guy who drove that country into deep poverty. But some strong-arm dictators have God on their side, I suppose.
OH NO NOT THE COMMUNISTS OH NO
It’s irresponsible comments like Robertson’s that make clear why MLB needs a real commisioner — NOW.
Ben
Yeah, that strategy really worked well in Cuba.