USNews.com: Nation and World: Pat Robertson talks foreign policy (8/24/05)
USNews.com: Nation and World: Pat Robertson talks foreign policy (8/24/05): "His later remarks on Wednesday asked, 'Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement.' However, earlier Wednesday on his program, Robertson explained that ''take him out' can be a number of things, including kidnapping; there are a number of ways to take out a dictator from power besides killing him.' Robertson's spokesperson did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Robertson's original commentary on Monday's '700 Club,' as transcribed by the Associated Press, went like this: '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. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don't think any oil shipments will stop.' Robertson, 75, went on: 'We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.'
Chavez, whom the administration has accused of undemocratic actions, compared Robertson and other critics to 'rather mad dogs with rabies.' In the past, Chavez has alleged that the administration supported a failed coup in 2002. Chavez is a leading Latin American critic of Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq and has allied himself with Cuba's Fidel Castro."
Robertson's original commentary on Monday's '700 Club,' as transcribed by the Associated Press, went like this: '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. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don't think any oil shipments will stop.' Robertson, 75, went on: 'We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.'
Chavez, whom the administration has accused of undemocratic actions, compared Robertson and other critics to 'rather mad dogs with rabies.' In the past, Chavez has alleged that the administration supported a failed coup in 2002. Chavez is a leading Latin American critic of Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq and has allied himself with Cuba's Fidel Castro."
posted by Blackgold at 10:46 AM
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Make no mistake about it, this guy said what he meant and meant what he said.
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