The leftists in the Democrat Party and media couldn't get enough of that, could they? Mr. Gibson correctly points out that there isn't a sane person who wouldn't cheerfully have 1,900 live American soldiers back in exchange for one dead S. Hussein. Clearly a variant on the emminently moral conclusion that it would have been a Good Thing to have assassinated Hitler in 1932.
He also takes Mr. Robertson to task on the issue of the appropriateness of a relgious leader's advocating political action other than apple pie get-out-the-vote campaigns. That's the real issue and it's more than fair to delve into the ramifications of that. (The Colonel's view is that church leaders in the U.S. are not constitutionally mandated to limit their policy recommendations to the curse of people talking in church or UPS truck drivers' double parking in front of Starbucks.)
So George Stephanopoulos (search) in 1997 — just after he left the Clinton White House as a close Clinton advisor — wrote in a Newsweek article that Clinton was going to have to think about assassinating Saddam Hussein."A No Brainer." By John Gibson, Fox News, 8/26/o5.
Where was the outrage?
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But the rest of the high dudgeon, the wailing and beating the chest was simply because Robertson represented a way to try to embarrass Bush, even though the president had nothing to do with Robertson or what he said.
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