Let’s take out Robertson
I saw this article on CNN today about how Pat Robertson thinks we (the United States of America) should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Yeah, I had to read that twice too. This guy was actually running for the office of the president in 1988. I can’t help but think that the republicans are damn glad that he didn’t get the job, and would probably prefer that he stop affiliating himself with their party any more.
What is this guy thinking?! I never thought that Iraq was such a great idea either, but at least in Saddam’s case we suspected that he had something major up his sleeve. And his reasons for wanting to murder the leader of another country (notice he didn’t simply say, “get him out of power” which might have been a little bit more the “christian” thing to do…) are because he’s “a launching pad for Communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.” You have got to be kidding me…
You will notice that he didn’t just come out and use the “T” word… he had to make an ethnic slur while he was mouthing off. They’re not terrorists, they’re “Muslim extremists.” I mean, if we’re going to start killing rulers in foreign countries just because they might be a staging ground for religious fanatics, then what’s the next step? Should we also round up all the Muslim peoples living here as legal citizens in the USA and send them to internment camps? We’re still paying for the last time we did that little bit of racial cleansing. And as long as we’re on the topic of religious extremists, how about you Pat. Maybe we should round up all the fanatical christians like yourself in a pen. We could give you all numbers and… Hey? Don’t they mention something like that in Revelations? Wow, what a great idea!
Yeah, Pat, you’re a fruitcake. And the world would be a far better place without your right-wing, racist, religious rantings. So I say we send those covert operative over to your house. Let my taxes go toward something really useful for once and have them set their laser sights on your fat head. It would be a far better use of my money than inciting some of our nearest neighbors into a real frenzy by killing off their leader.