WASHINGTON, Aug 24: The Bush administration on Wednesday distanced itself from Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson saying that his call for assassinating Venezuelan president does not reflect official US policy.
Mr Robertson, a former presidential candidate of the ruling Republican Party and a strong supporter of the Bush administration, caused an international uproar on Monday when he openly advised the US government to assassinate President Hugo Chavez.
“If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it,” Mr Robertson said of Mr Chavez on his show, ‘The 700 Club’.
