Pat Robertson is all about the sanctity of human life -- except when he isn't. The Christian Coalition founder and Christianist political activist said on his television show Monday that it's time for the United States to stop Venezuela from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.'' How do you do that? Assassinate the president, Robertson says.
"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," the Associated Press quotes Robertson as saying. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
OK, so he was really talking about a CIA-orchestrated coup or something, not the assassination of Hugo Chavez, right? Wrong. "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."
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