BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 05:35 PM

It goes beyond anything political, Georgiansilver. Robertson is advocating killing a democratically elected president of a sovereign nation because that president is thinking about selling oil to other countries besides the US, and Robertson believes that the US has a right to all of Venezuela's oil.

Robertson has, in essence, said that it is permissible, within the framework of his belief system, to kill people in order to take whatever they have that you want.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 05:26 PM

"We have the ability to take him (Chavez) 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," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

"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."

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: curmudgeon
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 05:23 PM

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."

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 05:18 PM

If the implication that taking him out was a murderous act and not a political one then he is no Christian! Does someone have the actual quote from him please?
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:52 PM

Well, I agree with him that it might be cheaper in many ways to assainate someone rather than fighting a war. Think of Hitler, for instance.

But not because of what they MIGHT do or because you disagree with them. Nossir. If that went I'd start packin' a gun, because we'd be back in the wild west of the movies.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:47 PM

How this man can call himself a "Christian" is beyond me. He more than amply demonstrates that he hasn't a clue!!

(Bloodthirsty bastard!)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:43 PM

If its cheaper to murder a president than have another $200 billion war then...


btw

is there any truth to the rumor that the Bush daughters have joined the Alabama National Guard and they too have not been seen since?

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Wesley S
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:22 PM

He gives Christians a bad name.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:16 PM

And a good Christian gentleman he is, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:05 PM

I think that all the liquor Pat Robertson "guarded" during the Korean War has caught up with him.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:03 PM

Well, the Venezuelan government certainly thinks it counts as incitement to terrorism.

But the "Patriot Act" only applies to people the Bush adminstration doesn't like.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 03:57 PM

Doesn't that count as incitement to terrorism? Just as it would if anyone were to make the same suggestion about Bush.

Isn't your "Patriot Act" supposed to mean that anyone talking like that is liable to have their collar felt?

Subject: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 03:27 PM

Pat Robertson

"On Monday, Robertson said on the Christian Broadcast Network's The 700 Club: "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,' he said of the democratically elected Chavez.

'It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.'

U.S. critics of Robertson said they were deeply troubled by the evangelist's remarks.

'It's absolutely chilling to hear a religious leader call for the murder of any political leader, no matter how much he disagrees with such a leader's policies or practices,' said one of them, Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State."