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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (65734)	8/24/2005 7:36:43 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I am not an immigrant from a Muslim country. You have it all wrong. Besides what does that got to do with the discussion. I asked you about Pat Robertson and Bush and not about you. Let me know what your thoughts are on when and where should this madness about killing people stop. Why is Bush right when he says march into Iraq on the pretext of WMD and kill/capture Saddam and now Pat Robertson make a similar remark and Bush wants to run away from that. Doesn't Bush owe this country an explanation besides just hiding and running away from that comment. After all he started that style of dealing with foreign leaders including those of the UN. It would be interesting to see what the Gang of 14 Senators will do after they return from their recess. How they get back to Bush for his decision to appoint the UN special envoy etc. etc.

To: lorne who wrote (65734)	8/24/2005 8:54:25 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Recall your reaction for the call to violence by the British mullahs. You were outraged and called them all sorts of names including that "they were ugly" (a very personal remark). Where is your outrage now. Why don't you call for the extermination of Pat Robertson similar to your call for the estermination of Muslim terrorist. Why is not considered a terrorist Why the change of face and merely calling him a nutball case. "Kill Chavez" call is inappropriate : Bush administration From L K Sharma DH News Service, WASHINGTON: The right-wing Christian Coalition founded by Mr Pat Robertson gave a call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez but it provoked no strong official condemnation. He said on a popular TV show that the US government should take out Mr Chavez which would be cheaper than a war. Of course, the defence and state departments distanced themselves from a "private citizen's view". But in response to questions, a state department spokesman would not call Mr Robertson a "terrorist". The Bush administration expressed no shock or anger. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, at his press conference, said: ``Our department doesn't do that kind of thing. It's against the law. He (Pat Robertson) is a private citizen. Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.'' At the state department briefing, a correspondent suggested that had Mr Robertson been living in Britain, he would have been deported for making a terroristic statement. The spokesman said: "Well, we're not living in Britain." While the US denied that it was planning any "hostile action" against Mr Chavez, the Venezuelan ambassador in Washington demanded that special protection should be provided to his country's President when he visits the United Nations next month. The state department spokesman reiterated the usual US criticism of the Chavez government and called Mr Robertson's statement merely "inappropriate". The spokesman said: "Pat Robertson is a private citizen and that his views do not represent the policy of the United States. We do not share his view and that his comments are inappropriate and that, as we have said before, any allegations that we are planning to take hostile action against the Venezuelan Government are completely baseless and without fact. Another correspondent persisted: "In other cases when somebody, a private citizen suggests the killing of a foreign leader you consider that guy a terrorist. Do you consider Pat Robertson -- his ideas to be -- also embracing terrorist -- acts of terrorism against other leaders? The spokesman: "I've said what I'm going to say on the matter." He said concerning Venezuela, the administration expressed its concerns in the past regarding some of Venezuela's behaviour in the hemisphere. A correspondent drew the spokesman's attention to the fact that Mr Robertson expresses the views of people who are clearly the President's base -- a big part of that base, at least, which are Christian conservatives and Republicans. So it will be interpreted that Mr Robertson's views are shared by a big part of the Republican Party. The spokesman said: "I would think that people around the world would take the comments for what they are. They're the expression of one citizen. And we have been very clear -- I have been very clear that this is not the policy of the United States Government. We do not share his views and that his comments are inappropriate.'' deccanherald.com