Pat Robertson Is My IDOL
| By Bluejacket - Aug 25th, 2005 at 11:13 pm EDT |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Summer Blogathon |
(This was originally written at my blog, Advance To Boardwalk.)
How can you not love him?
Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club, Christian pundit extraordinaire, advocated the assassination of President Hugo CHavez of Venezuela.
Now, I do not read the Bible as much as I should (or at all), but I do know "Thou shalt not kill" is in there somewhere.
The Bush Administration did not run as far and as fast as they could from this statement, nor did they categorically deny any ties to this lunatic. They simply said "Well, this is America, and he can say what he wants."
Cindy Sheehan got a bigger reaction for just wanting answers for why her son died.
We all know, that if someone like Michael Moore or Al Franken, even jokingly, said anything remotely close to that, the Right would be standing on every rooftop in the country, shouting down the left and all of their vileness for suggesting something like that.
Even worse, what if someone in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or any other unstable country would have said something like that? We would be lined up at the border in a matter of hours, telling them to take it back or we were going to invade them, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.
Wait, is that too far? Only on the left it is...
Now, just so we all know, here is a chart of where we get our oil from. Venezuela is pretty high on the list. The sell us a ton of oil. I am thinking this is not a country we should be pissing off. That, and I am sure if they could get the money from another country (China maybe? Russia?), they would gladly not deal with us. In spite of Robertson thinking that we wouldn't miss an oil shipment.
And, how did the Venezuelans feel?
Well, since we have established that pre-emptive war against terrorists is acceptible if the country invading feels threatened...
I would just start stocking up on supplies if I were you.
How can you not love him?
Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club, Christian pundit extraordinaire, advocated the assassination of President Hugo CHavez of Venezuela.
Now, I do not read the Bible as much as I should (or at all), but I do know "Thou shalt not kill" is in there somewhere.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Tuesday that Robertson has the right of any private citizen to say whatever he wants, but added that the broadcaster's remarks "do not represent the views of the United States."
The Bush Administration did not run as far and as fast as they could from this statement, nor did they categorically deny any ties to this lunatic. They simply said "Well, this is America, and he can say what he wants."
Cindy Sheehan got a bigger reaction for just wanting answers for why her son died.
Well, I did meet with Cindy Sheehan," Bush said Tuesday. "I strongly support her right to protest. There's a lot of people protesting. And there's a lot of points of view about the Iraq war."
He added: "She expressed her opinion. I disagree with it."
We all know, that if someone like Michael Moore or Al Franken, even jokingly, said anything remotely close to that, the Right would be standing on every rooftop in the country, shouting down the left and all of their vileness for suggesting something like that.
Even worse, what if someone in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or any other unstable country would have said something like that? We would be lined up at the border in a matter of hours, telling them to take it back or we were going to invade them, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.
Wait, is that too far? Only on the left it is...
Now, just so we all know, here is a chart of where we get our oil from. Venezuela is pretty high on the list. The sell us a ton of oil. I am thinking this is not a country we should be pissing off. That, and I am sure if they could get the money from another country (China maybe? Russia?), they would gladly not deal with us. In spite of Robertson thinking that we wouldn't miss an oil shipment.
And, how did the Venezuelans feel?
Venezuela's vice president reacted with outrage to a call by television evangelist Pat Robertson for the U.S. to assassinate President Hugo Chavez, and two U.S. senators called the remarks ``irresponsible'' and ``incredibly stupid.''
``It's the height of hypocrisy for the U.S. to continue talking about the war against terrorism when at the same time you have someone making obvious terrorist declarations in the heart of the country,'' Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said at a news conference in Caracas.
Well, since we have established that pre-emptive war against terrorists is acceptible if the country invading feels threatened...
I would just start stocking up on supplies if I were you.
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Well, there's always the classic Michael Moore quote that I felt never created nearly as much uproar as it should have:
Falwell's statements were batty, as much as I detest Chavez -- but left-wing batty statements can get ignored, too.
Because I don't recall our minutemen kidnapping children with Downs Syndrome and strapping explosives to them in order to make them unwilling suicide bombers to disrupt the first free and democratic elections Iraq has seen in half a century.
Also, I'm sure this hypothetical future history book would note the time this past weekend where the insurgents posed as Iraqi Army troops, and went through a neighborhood politely asking if any of the neighbors could point out insurgent locations -- then massacring every innocent that complied. I'm sure the picture I saw, of the weeping father whose four teenage sons had been taken just hours before by the insurgents, lined up against the wall, and shot to death, would be prominently mentioned.
Oh, and the targetting of Shiite children will probably feature prominently in this history book. How they'd specifically target the occasions where U.S. troops would go out to hand out candy in Shiite neighborhoods, and wait until the little children were meeting with the soldiers, before driving in and killing dozens of innocent children with suicide bombs.
What kind of future are you imagining, exactly? Where the Sunni minority enslaves the majority of free and peace-loving Iraqis once again, as under Saddam?
I'll give you a hint -- there are a hell of a lot more Shiites than Sunnis in Iraq. If we pull out our policing, it's the Sunnis who'll be massacred for the change. Sunni insurgents, Sunni civilians, the violence probably won't descriminate.
If there's anything the history books will whitewash in such a scenario, it'll be the actions of Shiite reactionary genocidaires that haven't happened yet.
The Sunni insurgency will be recorded in all its bloody, villainous detail, because if they win in the short term (evicting the United States), they will surely lose in the long-term against their fellow Iraqis (and the agents of Iran in waiting).
If you'd like to include the Michael Moore quote in the history book, though, I'm certain we can make that happen. Should we put it next to the splattered remains of the child victims of suicide bombing, or the weeping father whose sons have just been taken by the insurgent death squads?