Top Venezuela official blasts U.S. failure to condemn call for Chavez's ..

[sabra]

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=w082647A

Top Venezuela official blasts U.S. failure to condemn call for Chavez's murder

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's foreign minister criticized the U.S. government for stopping short of condemning remarks by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said at a meeting in Bariloche, Argentina, on Thursday that the U.S. reaction had been "a bit strange," according to a Foreign Ministry statement issued in Venezuela.

"There has been no forceful condemnation by the United States as everyone expected," Rodriguez said.

He also said Robertson's comments were clearly a crime of incitement but that no legal proceedings have been opened in the United States.

[samsingh]

1. i think Ali is right.

Robertson is the right-wing Christian equivalent of the Muslim radicals

if they are prosecuted, he should be too.

[VegasWolf]

2. Don't they know, Bush is afraid to talk to angry people? nt

[icymist]

3. That's true. Robertson did commit a Federal crime.

By advocating a assignation against a sovereign nation, Robertson has displayed himself a terrorist. Because he is a big player in the Republican party (Christian Coalition), The United States, at least, needs to speak about this.

[indepat]

4. It's only a crime if those who control the levers of power say it is a

crime and: guess what?

[VegasWolf]

6. It would be the politically savvy thing to do! Oops! That lets Bush out.

[jsamuel]

5. double standard, if he was a Muslim, he would be in GITMO already

without a trial for 5 years

[AlamoDemoc]

7. Ehem! Where is that British anti-terrorism law when we need it?

[Al-CIAda]

8. .