The American Taliban, Alive and Well
American evangelist preacher Pat Robertson has backed off his suggestion that the U.S. government should assassinate Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela. “If he 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,” Robertson said on his religious TV show, the “700 Club”. “We have the ability to take him out and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability.” But after an international outcry, Robertson backpedaled. “I said our special forces could take him out,” he said on a later broadcast. “There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted.” (New York Times, Reuters) ...“Thou shalt not bear false witness.” —the Ninth Commandment
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