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2005/8/23-24 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:39222 Activity:moderate
8/23    It's Pat:
         http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez/index.html
        Pat Roberson calls to have Hugo Chavez assassinated. Gee, prominent
        public relig figure calling for "death to <head of state>" ... what
        does that remind you of? I like the line "This is in our sphere of
        influence, so we cant let this happen" ... gee, I wonder if people
        in Venezuala talk about "American Black Helecopters". And I wonder
        if Hugo Chavez is a bigger theat to America than activist judges".
        Any bets on who the next ambassador to Venezuala might be?
        \_ Jesus for Oil..
           \_ I'm willing to make that trade.
        \_ Huge Chavez is a clown. -- ilyas
        \_ Hugo Chavez is a clown. -- ilyas
           \- So? Who would you rather have as your ruler, Hugo or Pat?
              \_ Well, I was gonna say you, Partha, but then I remembered you
                 would feed me ankles first into a woodchipper. -- ilyas
                 \- in spite of your psb-persecution complex, you'ld
                    probably be pretty low on my reeducation or beyond
                    reeducation, convert to fertilizer list. --psbpot
                    \_ I don't know, Partha, you haven't seen me with a lot
                       of money. -- ilyas
                       \- ok i'll keep my options option to have your
                          bones scraped with a rusty file.
              \_ When Pat ran for President in the 80s I distinctly remember
                 him saying that one of his first acts as President would be
                 to nuke the USSR.  So I'd rather have Chavez.
        \_ We need to keep our mullahs in line ... Maybe Venezuela should
           ship off Robertson somewhere, say Egypt.  I love the automatic
           assumption that Venezuela's oil belongs to us because it is in
           our "hemisphere" ... Isn't it property of the people of Venezuela?
           \_ But they are Brown and Catholic, therefore subservient to
              Anglo-Saxon Jesus.
           \_ Heh, yeah, it Belongs to the People. -- ilyas
              \_ No, actually, it's properly owned by PDV, which is at least
                 majority- if not entirely owned by the government of
                 Venezuela, which is, at least pro forma, a democracy, so yes,
                 it Belongs to the People.  If you want to argue that
                 knocking off that fucker Chavez is a good thing due to
                 geostrategic interests (and, well, because he's a fucker)
                 then that's entirely different (this is what I think we
                 should have done with Saddam and couple of other places if
                 we were honest about it).  However, there is _no_ argument
                 that Venezuelan (or any other) oil supplies "belong" to
                 anyone other than whoever's got the drilling rights to
                 them.  -John
                 \_ I am fairly sure the oil in Venezuela belongs to Chavez.
                    Personally, I am in favor of knocking off Chavez _last_
                    among the world's head-of-state fuckers because, hey,
                    at least he's funny. -- ilyas
        \_ Let's see... Chavez is aligned with Iran, Ven. is becoming
           a client state of China, and Chavez provides extensive
           military support to the FARC narco-terrorists.
           Without oil Venezuela = Zimbabwe.  I'd say pat is exactly right,
           but shows poor judgement to say such things in public.
                    \_ Fair enough.  Nonetheless, the point isn't who it
                       belongs to, rather who it doesn't, i.e. us.  And
                       careful, Partha "the Mulcher" is watching.  -John
        \_ Let's see... Chavez is aligned with Iran, Ven. is becoming
           client state of China, and Chavez provides extensive
           military support to the FARC narco-terrorists.  I'd say
           Pat is exactly right.  Without oil Venezuela = Zimbabwe.
                       \- still crazy after all these years ...
                 *Boredcast Message from 'john': Thu Oct 13 15:47:45 1994
                 ||
                 ||ok...straw poll:
                 ||If anyone on soda was to become the evil dictator of a small
                 ||country, who would it be?
                 ||(assuming I get to be chief of the secret police)
                 ||
                 *Boredcast Message from 'alanc': Thu Oct 13 15:48:30 1994
                 ||
                 ||Probably psb
                 ||
        \_ I am pretty sure that this is an act of terrorism as defined
           by the Patriot Act. I won't hold my breath waiting for him
           to be arrested.
        \_ Let's see... Beaner is aligned with Turbin, Venezuela is becoming
           client state of Chink, and Beaner provides extensive
           military support to the Turbin wearin terrorists.  I'd say
           Pat is exactly right.  Without oil Venezuela = Bin Laden.
           Fuck immigrants, blacks, and Jews.                   !jblack
           \_ "Can anybody understand what this duck is saying?"
        \_ Pat in 2003:
           "How dare the president of the United States say to the duly
            elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down.'"
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How dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected presi dent of another country, 'You've got to step down,'" Robertson said Mond ay on The 700 Club, broadcast from his Christian Broadcasting Network. It's one thing to say, we will give you money if you step down and we wil l give you troops if you step down, but just to order him to step down? Robertson, a Bush supporter who has financial interests in Liberia, said he believes the State Department has mismanaged the situation in nation after nation after nation in Africa. So we're undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim re bels to take over the country, he said in the broadcast. Robertson told The Washington Post in an interview published Thursday tha t he has written off in my own mind an $8 million investment in a Liberi an gold mining venture he made four years ago, under an agreement with T aylor's government. Once the dust has cleared on this thing, chances are there will be some i nvestors from someplace who want to invest. If I could find some people to sell it to, I'd be more than delighted, he said in the article. He said his investment was intended to help pay for humanitarian and evan gelical efforts in Liberia. Angell Watts, a spokeswoman for Robertson, said Robertson was not availab le to comment Thursday because he was traveling. Taylor waged war for seven years as a rebel leader before being elected p resident in 1997. The United Nations and European leaders have sought US troops to enforc e a repeatedly violated June 17 cease-fire between forces loyal to Taylo r and rebels fighting for three years to oust him. Under the deal, Taylo r promised to step down, clearing the way for a transitional government that will oversee fresh elections. Mr Bush, speaking Wednesday in South Africa, promised to help enforce th e cease-fire and see to it that Mr Taylor leaves office so there can be a peaceful transition in Liberia. On Sunday, Taylor accepted an offer of asylum from Nigeria, but on condit ion that an international force is deployed in Liberia. A UN-backed tribunal indicted Taylor on June 4 for war crimes in neighb oring Sierra Leone. Robertson told the Post that the war crimes indictment is nonsense and sh ould be quashed. He said Taylor has become such a lightning rod that he should leave offic e, but in an orderly transition accompanied by the insertion of US pea cekeepers. Frankly, the president's call for Taylor to step down immediately is not wise, because if Taylor leaves immediately, the country will descend int o chaos, he told the paper. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.