Pat Robertson has become a real problem for the Republicans and the Bush administration. It seems fairly obvious that poor Pat has some serious mental problems. Last year, Robertson said President Bush told him before the Iraq invasion: "We're not going to have any casualties," but that "the Lord told me it was going to be (a) a disaster and (b) messy." Then last week he called for the assassination of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
Now Venezuela Wants Pat Robertson (CBS/AP) President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his government may ask the United States to extradite U.S. religious broadcaster Pat Robertson to Venezuela for suggesting American agents should kill him.
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Sunday, speaking to foreign delegations attending a meeting of the Organization of American States in Caracas, Chavez said Venezuela will "exercise legal action in the United States" against Robertson.
"Calling for the assassination of a head of state is a terrorist act," said Chavez, an outspoken critic of President Bush who has forged strong relations with communist-led Cuba.
"We could even request his extradition," he added.
Chavez told OAS delegates that Venezuela would consider bringing the issue to United Nations if the U.S. government failed to cooperate.
As firedoglake says Should be interesting to see what the response of the National Lampoon's Crawford Vacation bunch will be -- after all, wasn't it Saddaam's threat to assassinate his father one of Preznit Hole Smoker's motivating factors in marching over Iraq like it was a large piece of dog offal?
Now I have no doubt that the Bush administration would just love to have Chavez "taken out" but they don't want a senile Christian con man announcing it in advance.
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