Listen to the Tom Tancredo Tape About Bombing Mecca

WFLA ^ | 07/18/2005

[Balding_Eagle]

There has been much speculation about what Tom Tancredo said on the now famous interview last Friday on WFLA-AM in Orlando, Fla.

From what I am reading here on FR, much of that speculation is wrong.

Tancredo was, in fact, suggesting that we consider (not implement, just consider implementing) a strategy similar to the strategy that Reagan used to win the Cold War.

Listen for yourself. HERE

If you think Tancredo is a nut case, and you don't want to change your thinking, move along, this clip isn't for you. Just post your thoughts without listening.

[DuckFan4ever]

I saw the Tancredo story at the gym today. Thanks Tom, I really appreciate you making us look as nutty as the Democrats. Regardless of what you meant, the MSM and the Liberals are going to run with it. You should find David Duke and form your own party, you a-hole.

[Balding_Eagle]

LOL!

Thanks, you proved my point.

You guy's are priceless, gotta love ya!

[NormsRevenge]

Sits back and watches the TRolls for Jihad cram it to Tom... lol

Thanks for posting, should be interesting.

[MizSterious]

For some people, there's no need to actually listen to what was said. They knows what they knows, and their minds are made up!

[k2blader]

You're right. NormsRevenge was kind enough to post part of the transcript up earlier on another thread.

Those who are intellectually honest will be able to comprehend Tancredo said nothing wrong. The rest are no better than Dems.

[DoughtyOne]

Sometimes I wonder why posters don't just hit themself in the face at home, and leave us alone.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

If you think Tancredo is a nut case, and you don't want to change your thinking, move along, this clip isn't for you. Just post your thoughts without listening.

Looks like the author of post #2 followed your instructions to the letter.

[cripplecreek]

"I really appreciate you making us look as nutty as the Democrats."


Theres no "us" to it. The open borders crowd is acting like democrats. Throwing the race card out at every opportunity and blindly obeying the party.

[konaice]

Not only do I think he is NOT a Nut Case, I actually think he may have been asked to raise the issue in a plausibly deniable way, to get it out there in for the Muslim world to see.

Just high enough to be believable, just low enough to be deniable.

Takes a lot of guts to go out and make yourself a target for the whining left by floating trial balloons for the administration.

Who of us has not contemplated this already?

[monkeybrau]

It's ok to say "that's a frightening proposition" or "what a desperate measure in response to ultimate destruction" or "I'm scared."

Or you can just label him a nutbag and return to burying your head in the sand. No religious holy war here, nothing to see, pass my xanax.

[Leofl]

You got it right in one!

[eleni121]

Tom is right on! Thank God for people like Tancredo...people who recognize the evil of Islam and are ready to act to preserve this nation from their hideousness.

[agooga]

Doesn't sound nutty to me.

HOWEVER

The threat and even the follow through on a you-bomb-me / I-bomb-you policy will not discourage the muslim fundies-- they don't care if they die, nor do they care if a million innocent muslims die if it's for their cause.

I doubt also they'd give a rat's ass if a "holy" site was bombed for the same reason. In fact, they'd probably revel in it, wrap themselves in it and proclaim us all the more worthy of death for it.

[NormsRevenge]

Here is an excerpt of an earlier thread re:Tancredo statement and clarification.

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Tancredo clarifies 'ultimate response'

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1443951/posts

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Clarifying remarks from a radio interview that drew praise from some supporters, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said he was not suggesting that the U.S. should nuke the Islamic holy site Mecca as a response to a nuclear homeland attack by al-Qaida.

The congressman's press secretary told WorldNetDaily the comments were an off-the-cuff response to a hypothetical situation.

"He doesn't believe that we should go out and threaten to bomb anybody's holy city," said spokesman Will Adams.

In the interview this morning with Pat Campbell of WFLA radio in Orlando, Tancredo discussed his request for a briefing from the Justice Department on information it has on plans revealed by WND this week for a nuclear attack on the U.S. by al-Qaida terrorists.

Campbell noted that just after the London bombings last week, former Israeli counterterrorism intelligence officer Juval Aviv predicted an attack in the U.S. within the next 90 days. Aviv believes the plan is to attack not one big city, like New York, but half-a-dozen smaller ones, including towns in the heartland.

The host asked Tancredo, "Worst case scenario, if they do have these nukes inside the border, what would our response be?"

The congressman replied: "There are things you could threaten to do before something like that happens, and then you have to do afterwards, that are quite draconian."

"Well," Tancredo continued, "what if you said something like, 'If this happens in the United States and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you could take out their holy sites.'"

Campbell: "You're talking about bombing Mecca?"

Tancredo: "Yeah. What if you said, we recognize that this is the ultimate threat to the United States, therefore this is the ultimate response."

The congressman quickly added, "I don't know, I'm just throwing out some ideas, because it seems that at that point in time you would be talking about taking the most draconian measures you could imagine. Because other than that, all you could do it tighten up internally."

The comments heartened some readers of Free Republic, the conservative online news forum, including one who said, "Rep. Tancredo is taking off the gloves on the Islamofacists! Yee ha!"

Others, however, reflected the sentiment of another poster, who said, "Tancredo is racing to the edge of the lunatic fringe."

[Echo Talon]

If you were the President at what point would you consider bombing Mecca?
After 1 Million Americans were vaporized? 2 million? 50 million? Or possibly never... Just surrender...?

[Morgan in Denver]

For what it's worth, I would like to add a comment. Tom Tancredo was on the KOA Mike Rosen program this morning. Jon Caldara was the guest host. Tancredo explained his statements and what he was saying.

Tancredo said bombing Mecca, or any other site, should be an option that has to be considered if a retaliation is due because of some horrendous act against America. He pointed out these types of plans are already on the books and the military is developing contingency plans all the time, and this is one of them.

He realizes the statements in CA are going to make him look bad and will be taken differently than what he intended.

Personally, I have no problem with possible contingency plans for any nation or group that might attack the United States.

[atlanta67]

actually Tancredo has done a tremendous favor to the open borders crowd.

Anytime someone wants to do somethign about illegal immigration, they will respond, "youre as nutty as Tancredo"

he has hurt the cause of secure borders by being such a nut.

he listens to conspiracy fools who say that the USSR put nukes in US cities and now Al Qaeda controls them.

You cvan judge a person by who the associate with and Tancredo associates with tinfoil crowds

[lightman]

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, nuke for nuke.

One detonated here is one too many.

[Vaquero]

hell yeah...might as well do the old General Blackjack Pershing, Moros, gambit and dip our bullets in pigs blood....and execute some Jihadists and bury them with pig intestines......

remember....Islam is NOT the religion of peace

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4315&search=arlandson