Christian body asks US to murder Venezuelan President
Press Trust of India
Washington, August 23, 2005
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1470184,00050001.htm
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson urged the United States to assassinate
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is a "dangerous enemy," Roberts told
watchers of his 'The 700 Club' television show.
"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought
to go ahead and do it," Robertson, 75, said in a live broadcast on Monday
from Christian Broadcasting Network headquarters in Virginia Beach,
Virginia.
Robertson's incendiary comment came at the close of a long report by his
CBN news team on Chavez's anti-US rhetoric and growing links to both
President Fidel Castro's communist Cuba and Arab nations.
The television preacher and former presidential candidate expressed regret
that during a brief and failed civilian-military coup against Chavez in
April 2002, the United States did nothing to help topple the populist
leader.
Since then, Robertson said, Chavez "has destroyed the Venezuelan economy,
and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and
Muslim extremism all over the continent," he said.
Eliminating Chavez would be "a whole lot cheaper than starting a war," said
Robertson.
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we
exercise that ability," said the Christian leader.
"We don't need another 200 billion dollar 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.
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