Pat Robertson has been, and rightly so, roundly condemned for his remarks regarding assassinating the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Robertson stated that U.S. special forces should "take him [Chavez] out", which was widely assumed to mean assassination, though Robertson now claims we could just kidnap him. Clearly. The Bush administration was also asked about Robertson's comments. For the most part they sanely dismissed them:
State department spokesman Sean McCormak said that Robertson's comments "do not represent the views of the United States".
Though Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield, when asked about the remarks, replied "our department doesn't do that sort of thing." Adding, "That one is down the hall on the left."
Okay, so maybe Rummy didn't add that. But you know he wanted to.
(Information obtained through www.cnn.com)
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