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Pat Robertson Calls for Chavez' Death
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."
Pat. Sit down. Shut up.
Electronic pages and a message to a Robertson spokeswoman were not immediately returned Monday evening.

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."
I know there are a lot of folks here who'd agree, but this isn't the way to do it. The Venezuelan people have to have every opportunity to deal with this knucklehead. If they don't, and if Chavez begins to be a threat to us (and he doesn't have to be as big a threat as Saddam was), then we deal with him. Hokay, I know I'm going to get flamed for that, but I have my asbestos undies on.

Posted by: Steve White 2005-08-23
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