Posted on 08/02/2007 6:30:59 PM PDT by Flavius
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo says the best way he can think of to deter a nuclear terrorist attack on the US is to threaten to retaliate by bombing Islamic holy sites.
The Colorado congressman on Tuesday told about 30 people at a town hall meeting in the state of Iowa that he believes such a terrorist attack could be imminent and that the US needs to hurry up and think of a way to stop it.
“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” Tancredo said at the Family Table restaurant.
“Because that’s the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they otherwise might do,” Tancredo said in comments recorded and posted on the Web site iowapolitics.com.
A Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group responded in anger on Thursday, calling Tancredo’s statement “unworthy of anyone seeking public office in the United States.” “Perhaps it’s evidence of a long-shot candidate grasping at straws and trying to create some kind of a controversy that might appeal to a niche audience of anti-Muslim bigots,” said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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Seems like I have heard this idea before here on this site. Like on 9/12?
Dear CAIR,
The truth hurts, doesn’t it?
I don’t CARE what CAIR thinks about anything.
If thats how Hooper feels, Tancredo must be right.
It was a good idea then and is still an excellent idea now.
Tancredo is exactly right. Any major attack on our soil - nuclear or otherwise - perpetrated by Islamists should be met with the annihilation of Mecca, Medina, and whatever other sites those cultist freaks consider “holy.”
"For the phenomenon of Islamofascism as a whole, this must be understood as a pathological frenzy. All such frenzies are unstable. The list of ways to destabilize fragile fanatical minds is long.
Is there a suitcase nuke already secretly buried in Mecca that will vaporize Islam's most sacred shrine if America suffers another 9/11? Who knows? Maybe.
Has an experimental biofuel made with pig fat been secretly added to the world's airline fuel supplies, spreading pig fat molecules in the atmosphere of the Middle East, so impregnating the lungs of Moslem fanatics that the doors of Islamic heaven are shut to them? Maybe. Could be."
I think we should give them an example. Then take a poll. See if they want more.
By far the best way to stop an attack is to go after the terrorists where they have their havens, which is basically the Bush doctrine (although we haven't found a way to effectively get at them in the northwest of Pakistan).
If the Rats either through control of Congress or the Presidency withdraw our efforts to mostly within our own borders, then Tancredo is right in that it will just be a matter of time before a WMD attack here. Neither the Rats nor the Chamber of Commerce Republicans have the desire to control our borders or track dangerous foreigners in the country.
Andrew Wilkow had one of the “CAIR” jihadists on his show today-he absolutely destroyed the guy over the “queeranne in a toilet” at Pace. The guy got po’ed and hung up on Wilkow.
Okay, have I stirred things up a bit?
The only thing the Children of Ishmael understand is brute force. If it’s at all possible for them to “respect” anything, it’s that.
The only question is, does this nation have the testicular fortitude to actually DO that, should something terrible happen to us at the hands of the Mohammedans?
Honestly, I don’t think we do. The 5th Column will see to that.
One our greatest Crusaders against the Cult of Hate and Intolerance is Robert Spencer and CAIR has him in their sights. CAIR is currently trying to put pressure on colleges and universities to revoke his various invitations to speak.
Nobody in our country understands or speaks out against the muslims as much as Robert Spencer.
Yeah, crazy stuff. Your plan to send Al Qaeda a stern letter of rebuke after a U.S. city gets nuked is a much more sensitive and open-minded approach.
Imminent nuclear attack? Yawn.
If moos had nukes, they’d have blown their wad already.
Hmmmmmm perhaps Tancredo is right, it certainly got a reaction. Why the the Islamists be upset were he not right. They would simply say that it wouldn’t work.
It certainly would not make them back down and offer an olive branch.
Think back a couple thousand years- Rome was tired of a particular religious rabble rouser, and they handled it by torturing him to death in public. His followers scattered and continued to preach their messiah’s words, and eventually Rome officially converted to this new religion.
Nuking the K’abbah would be an event of Biblical proportions; one that would never ever be forgotten, and it would become the central point of focus for a billion people who were not polarized before the event.
Don’t forget, the holiest thing in the K’abbah is a piece of fused sand (from a meteor strike). It’s not very big. A 20 MT groundpounder would make a huge area of fused sand- tens of thousands of times bigger than the piece that’s there now. That’s big enough that every mosque in the world could have one- Trinitite on a wholesale level.
"Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ishmael; because The Lord has given heed to your affliction. He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen." (Genesis 16:11-12 RSV).
Alright folks . . . let’s get real here. Would we nuke the Vatican for the actions of a group of Marxist crazed Liberation Theology priests??? All this would do is piss off A-L-L Muslims, ( both the Islamofacists and Moderates ) , you’d be turning people who are currently our allies, ( those who have lived under Sharia law and hated it ) into our enemies. Think these things through just a L-I-T-T-L-E B-I-T ! ! !
?? My plan??
“A wild ass of a man” is putting it lightly, but an effective description
No Muslim is by fiat by All.h an ‘ally’ of any infidel, etc..a lack of an appropriate very definitive response will doom the victim always to the wishes of this particular perpetrator. The third and greatest jihad in history has been in growing progress since 1979..the only opponent is a certain Constitutional Republic (for a while yet) that remains as their sole possible effective opponent, and, I am wondering if that nation is wavering...non-Churchillian thought this time virtually guarantees defeat...Churchill has just been removed from the ‘high school history’ curriculum in a rapidly Islamizing Britain...eom
No Muslim is by fiat by All.h an ‘ally’ of any infidel, etc..a lack of an appropriate very definitive response will doom the victim always to the wishes of this particular perpetrator. The third and greatest jihad in history has been in growing progress since 1979..the only opponent is a certain Constitutional Republic (for a while yet) that remains as their sole possible effective opponent, and, I am wondering if that nation is wavering...non-Churchillian thought this time virtually guarantees defeat...Churchill has just been removed from the ‘high school history’ curriculum in a rapidly Islamizing Britain...eom
The Hoopster has been busy this week. That’s S-CAIR-Y.
During WWII we did not nuke Tokyo or the Japanese Imperial Palace ! ! ! We nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki which were both centers of industrial production and important military bases. It would have made far more sense to nuke Tora-Bora than to nuke Mecca and Median at some point in the future.
Tancredo would do better to threaten Riyadh, Tehran, Islamabad, Damascus, etc. with destruction in retaliation for a WMD attack in the USA. These are the people who are supporting the terrorists, & have the most to lose if it comes to that.
Also, by threatening Mecca, Tancredo as president, is effectively declaring war on islam, so why not outlaw islam as a satanic cult, & expel the muslims in our midst who are the prime source of terrorism in this country. This would do far more to block domestic terrorism than simply threatening Mecca, & be a huge setback for the caliphate & jihad - much like Spain (Andalusia) in 1491. And for good measure, we could expel the Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank - Palestinian statehood problem solved. If we’re gonna PO the muzzies, might as well do it right.
A little common sense. What’s going on?
It’s all about messin’ with their minds...Doc Wheeler says it’s easy...hope we’re doin’ it...in the ME...
I’d go for a preemptive strike
Yes.
Did you know that using a cell phone causes the male member to shrivel?
I agree.
Maybe Tancredo lurks on FreeRepublic. ;^)
We used conventional incendiaries and HE gravity bombs in March 1945. We vaporized the center of Tokyo- 17 square miles turned to ash and rubble- and killed over 100,000 civilians. Estimates are still hazy- I read numbers between 80,000 and 200,000. More people were killed by LeMays’ firestorm than at Hiroshima.
Oh yeah we spared Tokyo!
In the end, only one person has the final authority on nukes—the POTUS. Everyone else is just uselessly exercising their piehole on the subject.
But it’s not so much the reason they need it, it’s more the size of the yield that concerns me.
Sounds like a good start. I wouldn't rule out turning the entire ME into a glow in the dark glass parking lot! It might be the only way to purge the earth of satanallahs mohamicidal maniacs!
Oh my.... ;o)
Agreed.
I’ve offered that solution several times myself.
Let’s try another example: Suppose the Aryan Nation boys manage to hijack a Minuteman warhead up there in Montana and somehow or other they manage to get it to Red Square and detonate it ( all 335 kilotons ). Would it really be in Vladimir Putin’s best interest to nuke Jerusalem and Rome because they are sacred to Christianity ???
To DBrow: I’m fully aware of Lemay’s fire bombing of Tokyo. I was just trying to make a point without going into detailed history.
Actually you know, you wouldn’t even have to drop a explosive device, you just use another kind of bomb on their Holy Sites.
You go to Jimmy Dean, Zeigler, and any other ‘sausage’ company and tell them you need blood, hooves, snots, ears ect, and a big ol cargo plane and you drop it all, all over the places.
If they wish to defile America, you defile them right back.
And the sausage companies could get a tax break for their contribution.
Ham steaks a la Mecca.
And do it every day for several days.
They’d go stark raving crazy.
Ummmm, he did get their attention...
Tancredo is completely wrong. The US isn’t going to nuke innocents, even if we take a nuclear hit.
Sausage falling from the sky? I’d be in near heaven.
If we are attacked en masse by more islamic terrorists on our soil, I say put our biggest atomic bomb right down the throat of Mecca and then tell the Muslims of this world...pray for peace and beg big-time for forgiveness...and we will think about it before we unleash the next 16,999 atomic bombs on your miserable @sses!
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