“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop… We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”
- Pat Robertson, Wednesday, August 24, 2005
“I didn’t say ‘assassination.’ I said our special forces should ‘take him out.’ ‘Take him out’ could be a number of things including kidnapping.” [You meant special forces will "take out" Chavez to dinner, right, Pat?]
- Pat Robertson, Thursday, August 25, 2005
“Is it right to call for assassination?” Robertson said. “No, and I apologize for that statement. I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him.”
- Pat Robertson, later on Thursday, August 25, 2005
