Pat Robertson follows in the footsteps of George Stephanopoulos

Stephanopoulos Urged Foreign Assassination:

"Though Iraq war critics now argue that by 1997, the Iraqi dictator was 'in a box' and posed no threat whatsoever to the U.S., Stephanopoulos contended that Saddam deserved swift and lethal justice.

"'We've exhausted other efforts to stop him, and killing him certainly seems more proportionate to his crimes and discriminate in its effect than massive bombing raids that will inevitably kill innocent civilians,' the diminutive former aide contended."

Carl Limbacher and the Newsmax.com staff point out that - in contrast to the present firestorm over Pat Robertson's musings on the subject of a bullet for Hugo Chavez, there was hardly a peep from the MSM when Stephanopoulos made a similar suggestion in a 1997 Newsweek magazine opinion piece titled "Why We Should Kill Saddam."

While I do appreciate the hypocrisy of the opinion elites on this issue of assassination versus war, I still wish Robertson had kept his mouth shut. All he has done is divert attention from Chavez' project for a continental dictatorship which he calls by the high-sounding name of Bolivarian Revolution. Simon Bolivar waged war for years and caused the deaths of thousands in his failed attempt to fulfill that dream two centuries ago. The difference between then and now is that Chavez' rule would be communist and totalitarian while Bolivar's ambitions were merely monarchical and authoritarian.