Robertson's apologizes for calling for assassination of Venezuela President Chavez
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for his comments made on Monday's telecast of his Christian Broadcasting Network show "The 700 club". He said: "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. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
He continued: "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."
At the moment Chavez is playing well his politics and is an important US ally, due to the high oil prices and Iraq occupation it is just not a viable (or logical) option to "take him out"; even to oppose his government or intervene in any way with the political situation in Venezuela would be something US is not willing to risk. There's just too much at stake.
So even though this is a really it's interesting to see all the dust that these comments have raised and how the Venezuelan and US government promptly reacted to everything.
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