American Fatwah

From the August 22 broadcast of The 700 Club: On Hugo Chavez

ROBERTSON: "There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He 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.

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. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... This is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. 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."

And the people said "AMEN!"

So, Brother Pat Robertson gets it, it's all about the oil. Screw the Ten Commandments. God told him it's o.k. to go kill a leader of another country to save a few bucks and steal their oil. Funny, I can't think of a single person Jesus thought should be killed. The scary thing is people acutally take this Quack (Robertson) seriously! This is the Religious Right base of George W. Bush. Murder a democratically elected leader of another country for oil, I think that also strikes at another commandment about "coveting." Hey, LR We didn't even have to go to Iraq for oil, there's plenty in Venezuela for the taking. Can I get an AMEN?

Now Dog is not so naive to think that this country has not had leaders of other countries assassinated or started coups in other countries to accomplish our objectives. Normally, that is left to the CIA and normally religious leaders in this country aren't calling for a Fatwah against another government. We should be more worried about the Taliban in this country than in Afghanistan. Pat Robertson is the Taliban.

On another note:
My how times have changed. Trent Lott is quoted from a NYT article on President Clinton and Kosovo.

May 19,2000
"We have no long-term plan for Kosovo," complained Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the majority leader, who supported the deadline for withdrawing American forces. "We don't know how long we're going or how much it's going to cost. Commitments are not being fulfilled by the Europeans, and that's unacceptable."

Gee, change the reference to Kosovo and substitute Iraq and the quote looks almost timeless. The only difference is that the Republicans are in charge. Where is your question now, Trent? It's unacceptable.

Bush approval rating plummets to 36% lower than Richard Nixon at the height of Watergate.