Pat Robertson advocates assassination of Hugo Chavez

Initially gleaned from Media Matters for America:

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.

As a friend on the WELL said, this story has legs (as well it should). Bloomberg reports as follows:

Evangelist Robertson Says U.S. Should Kill Chavez (Update1)
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — Television evangelist Pat Robertson told
viewers of “The 700 Club” program that the U.S. should kill
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop the Latin American country becoming a “launching pad” for extremism.
[snip]
“We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come
to exercise that ability,” Robertson said yesterday on the program,
an audiotape of which was posted on the Web site of the Christian
Broadcasting Network, founded by the cleric and based in Virginia
Beach, Virginia. “This is a dangerous enemy to our south controlling
a huge pool of oil.”

BBC News: TV host urges US to kill Chavez
Voice of America: US Christian Broadcaster Calls for Chavez
Assassination
Isn’t it time America stopped listening to these bloodthirsty creeps? Isn’t it about time decent Christians started policing what is being said and done in the name of their Lord?