Pat Robertson +chinese forced abortions +african gold +war crimes = fun!

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Oh all the wonderful dirt google can provide on a schmuck like robertson. Rotten.com has also been nice enough to summarize some of the most wretched of his business dealings:

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"In the mid-1990s, Pat struck up a friendship with Mobutu Sese Seko, the brutal tyrant of Zaire. He took a trip to the African nation with a large entourage on one of Mobutu's personal planes. Then the group was whisked off to his presidential yacht, which took them to his estate. One member of the party characterized their host as quite congenial: "Pat Robertson and Mobutu get along extremely well. Mobutu was interested in bringing in people to get the mining and agriculture operations going again."

"In a cost-cutting move, Pat ferried his cargo aboard planes owned by Operation Blessing, a tax-exempt charity of Robertson's working to deliver medical supplies. In fact, according to two pilots who worked for Robertson, nearly all of the flights they made on the Operation Blessing planes were delivery trips to and from the mining site."

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Remember Charles Taylor, the Liberian president charged with war crimes by the United Nations? Pat had a nice relationship with him too:

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"Pat chartered Freedom Gold Ltd. in the Cayman Islands and dispatched geologists to southeastern Liberia for prospecting. They didn't find much. But that hasn't diminished Robertson's zeal. When President George W Bush started making noises about Charles Taylor having to step down in order to halt the Liberian civil war, the preacher publicly excoriated Bush for failing to support the leader of a sovereign Christian nation, even if he had perpetrated crimes against humanity on a massive scale."

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Abortion is bad, yes? At least that's what Pat tells us - no wait? What's this?

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"And then there's China. Pat has business interests in the Communist nation. So when Robertson appeared on CNN defending China's forced-abortion policy, it didn't surprise veteran Pat watchers. Here's what he said: "Well, you know, I don't agree with it, but at the same time, they've got 1.2 billion people and they don't know what to do... If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable... so I think that right now they're doing what they have to do.""

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This summary was lifted from http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/pat-robertson/

More at:

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blrr_rob_taylor.htm

www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A5339-2001Nov9¬Found=true

www.theperspective.org/patrobertson_taylor.html

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200302/ai_n9191049

www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/127/48.0.html

[bushisanidiot]

1. Pat Robertson is Evil to the core

and he'll keep taking his followers money.. his followers who love his hate-filled ramblings.

[DemGirl7]

2. I knew of the majority of stuff you wrote

Pat Robertion is pure evil, and I would love to see him get what he deserves.