Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Come on... You know it's him....

Commandment #6(ish) Thou shalt not kill.

Pat Robertson - he who wants the commandments posted everywhere - on Victor Chavez " "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said. "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one 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."

Nice talk for the man of God. And he doesn't want him out because of human rights violations or anything. No. It's because, Robertson, called Chavez "a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us badly."

Now, it doesn't particularly bother me that a crazy mofo with a TV show that reaches millions of Americans calls for us to kill the leader of another country (even though it is on the "Christian" Broadcast Network). Okay - it does.

I think he is making all of us Americans look like asses. Particularly as he is a widely respected and followed Preacher in the US. Not just a Preacher followed by millions, but he ran for President (and did very well in some primaries). If a Muslim Iman or the Pope said this about the President of the US - we would all freak out.