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.

[cripplecreek]

Personally I don't believe the outrage we see here at FR has anything to do with his comments about a retaliatory strike. I saw one poster make a wild claim that Tancredo is a drug dealer a few weeks back.

[Sonny M]

I know what Tancredo meant, and what he said, and I can see the context its in.

That said, he should be smart enough to know that anything he says will/would be twisted around and used badly against him.

He is to smart to let himself get trapped like this normally, but he slipped up here, and now all he can do is wait it out.

There won't be any major backlash, and this won't be a big story in the grand scheme of things, chalk it up as a lesson learned on how the media can twist ya, and be more careful next time.

[cripplecreek]

The majority doesn't care.

[NormsRevenge]

A discredit Tancredo cabal at FR and afoot in this nation?

I'm shocked, I tell ya, shocked!.. lol

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

Contemplation yes. Telegraphing a punch no. I think reducing Damascus and Tehran to rubble is first on the table Mecca is not. Unless you project a credible threat there is no way you can run a house to house winning strategy against Islam. They can produce mad bombers faster than you can root them out and mad dirty bomb bombers are in the batter's box. Strategic planning for a response to a dirty bomb is essential unless we want to die of 100 dirty bombs. I hate to admit it but I do think radical Islam is merely the military arm of the world Islamic movement which has always been "a convert by the sword" evangelic religion. The idea that "moderate Islam" actually opposes the work of their military is not born out yet by their actions and activities.

[cripplecreek]

My new tagline says it all.

[NormsRevenge]

I don't think Tom really wanted to be President anyway.

Would you? l;-)

[OXENinFLA]

By Rocky Mountain News
July 18, 2005

Comments made by Rep. Tom Tancredo on Friday during an on-air interview on radio station WFLA in Orlando, Fla. Host Pat Campbell and the congressman were discussing the possibility of future terrorist attacks inside the United States.

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Campbell: Worst case scenario, if they do have these nukes inside the borders and they were to use something like that — what would our response be?

Tancredo: What would be the response? You know, there are things that you could threaten to do before something like that happens and then you may have to do afterwards that are quite draconian.

Campbell: Such as...

Tancredo: Well, 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, um, you know, you could take out their holy sites . . .

Campbell: You're talking about bombing Mecca.

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

I mean, I don't know, I'm just throwing out there some ideas because it seems to me . . . at that point in time you would be talking about taking the most draconian measures you could possibly imagine and because other than that all you could do is once again tighten up internally.


http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3935487,00.html

[Balding_Eagle]

Tom Tancredo was on the KOA Mike Rosen program this morning. Jon Caldara was the guest host.

I heard that interview too, and that's what prompted this post.

During the Cold War there were scores of people who thought Regean was nuts. During this war there will be scores of people who think Tancredo and similar thinkers are nuts.

Once the viewpoint Tancredo voiced is implemented we will probably have rounded the corner on this was.

[Echo Talon]

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, nuke for nuke.
One detonated here is one too many.

I enjoy political correctness as much as the next guy(:D), but at some point you have to defend yourself. Especially if we start losing 500,000 at a time.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

Why wait? How many more Americans have to die before we drop the "big un on em.?"

[gaspar]

Let us be frank, Tancredo voiced a thought that concerns many of us. If Washington D.C. is obliterated there will be a tidal wave of demands that we take out Makka. Also, let us also be frank about something else, should a Muslim bomb take out Tel Aviv then Makka will be ashes.

[Black Tooth]

I saw the Tancredo story at the gym today. Thanks Tom, I really appreciate you making us look as nutty as the Democrats. You should find David Duke and form your own party, you a-hole.

Question:

If America is attacked again, this time with nukes, biological/toxin weapons, radiation (dirty) bombs etc, contaminating our cities for years, killing thousands, possibly millions, sending our economy into the dark ages, what would be your suggested response?

[COEXERJ145]

Really sad that the Tancredoites think obliterating millions of people (most of whom probably only care about surviving day to day) but it is no surprise. They worship the guy so much they can't see that he is a kook. There are plenty of other people who could do more about immigration than this nut job but they will blindly follow him right off a cliff.

[SoDak]

I think it would be foolish for any foreign power, or terrorist, to believe that a Muslim terrorist, be it al-qaede or what have you, detonating a nuclear weapon in a US city wouldn't trigger an immediate, earth-shaking response which would have a far-reaching, devastating impact on the Muslim world.

[Balding_Eagle]

That said, he should be smart enough to know that anything he says will/would be twisted around and used badly against him.

I'm glad Tancredo is made of tougher stuff. If we used your standard as the standard as to when and what we would say, Rush wouldn't be on the air.

Nor Laura Inghram, Hugh Hewitt, Sean Hannity.............the list is endless.

Even President Bush would never step in front of a microphone.

Come on! We're Conservatives, and we are cleaning their clocks! Only one time before in the history of this Republic have people been witness to the death and disappearance of a whole political party. Watch and enjoy their verbal spasms. They are their death throes.

[Morgan in Denver]

I should have checked. Had I looked I would have realized you're in CO. Sorry.

A lot of people don't want to confront the possibilities but the US simply must be prepared for whatever contingency we need.

Oh yeah, and Tom knows he's considered on the fringe by many people but he's willing to take the heat knowing he's right. I believe he will win reelection as long as he wants to stay in the US House. He has too many constituents who agree with him and are thankful he's making the cases he makes.

[Black Tooth]

And your response to #33 is?

[Balding_Eagle]

I have a direct question for you

Did you think Regean was nuts for impletementing MAD?

[NormsRevenge]

You should find David Duke and form your own party, you a-hole.

tsk tsk

I would expect better from a former US Marine (Or as some on FR refer to us, "Internet Warriors".