2006
Hugo Chavez: Pat Robertson Was Right
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by Erik Rush
On August 23, 2005, Christian broadcaster and one-time presidential hopeful Pat Robertson called for United States intelligence operatives to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas. This was all true; Chavez, who has also made no secret of his desire to trade in nuclear technology with Iran, routinely made accusations that the U.S. was trying to kill him or planned to do so.
"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson on a broadcast of "The 700 Club" on August 22, 2005. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war."
Hard to find an argument there — but I digress.
Our invertebrate State Department called Robertson's comments "inappropriate"; Robertson was later compelled to publicly apologize for his statements.
On October 17, 2006, the House Committee on Homeland Security Sub-committee on Investigations released a lengthy report entitled: A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border. Citing numerous thoroughly-investigated confrontations between Border Patrol agents and Mexican drug gangs, and other border-focused nefarious activity, two (of many) menacing facts which surfaced included:
- Our border Patrol is significantly outgunned by "soldiers" of Mexican drug cartels operating on the border.
- Individuals from terrorist-sponsoring nations have been freely using this porous border to infiltrate the United States. A program initiated by Venezuela's proto-human dictator Hugo Chavez trains visitors from terrorist-sponsoring Middle Eastern and Asian nations to speak Spanish and "pose as Latinos" as they enter the U.S., equipped with Venezuelan passports.
We are at war with an enemy that flies no flag and has no borders. This fact has redefined modern warfare and has been the boilerplate argument for the American Left: "There's no war unless Congress declares it." This is like saying no rape occurred because the victim wouldn't admit it.
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