Posted on 08/04/2007 11:16:37 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Republican presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo says the best way he can think of to deter a nuclear "terrorist" attack on the U.S. 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 Osceola, Iowa, that he believes such a "terrorist" attack could be imminent and that the U.S. 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."
Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, are Islam's holiest cities. A Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group responded 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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I like Tom Tancredo, but this remark was just plain dumb.
Why didn’t we do that after the World Trade Center was brought down?
that wasnt a nuclear attack...
Hey, I resemble that remark...
I suspect many of those who think Tancredo’s suggestion is way out of line would think otherwise if an American city were incincerated in a nuclear fireball.
Tancredo knows that the jihadi cares little for human life...so making mention of attacking capital cities of islamfacist countries like Syria and Tehran will do little good as deterence...so...since the jihadi only cares about muslim holy cites...if we target those...then perhaps deterence is obtained.
They're right. It would be much more effective if we threatened to target every Middle East capital as well, unless they can bring these maniacs under control.
Bingo...
Don’t know how you came across this site but it is the most openly terrorist English site that I’ve seen. I don’t give a rat’s a$$ for what they or cair have to say.
If we are nuked...I will look back to this thread for your opinion again and see where you are at then.
That’s actually a good point.
My family’s clan fought in the crusades, and I’m proud of that, but even I think he went over the top here. At least in as much as he -said- it- ha ha
In the back of your mind, this should always be an option. We just don’t have to bring it up. I really hope there are a few missles with those gps coordinates in our stockpile. (let me check google earth for those...)
Of course, if I were to vote for Tancredo, it would be for many other more pressing reasons, not this one.
* Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan created the taliban and the wahabists. They funded them, allowed them training camps and permit the continued funding of terrorism, weapon purchases and transportation to every killing field on earth today.
The majority of muslims may not be direct participants, but the overwhelming majority either aid and support the active ones, they shelter them, protect them and empower them through silence; even when the killers are murdering other muslims.
All of these activities take place in muslim as well as non-muslim countries worldwide. If the few "good" muslims wanted to bring the entire terrorist structure to an immediate halt, it would happen within 6 months.
hmmmm....
It's like the British threatening to bomb the Vatican as retaliation for the next Irish Republican Army attack.
It does nothing to hurt the terrorists and it is used to great advantage by the terrorist propagandists.
I don’t know about that. Muslims tend to speak with a great deal of flowing and violent rhetoric. This “threat” may be something that they can wrap their minds around and understand, besides I like to keep all options open.
The souce site is banned on my network due to being “hate speech”....
If nothing else, the Saudi’s are likely to take much better care that their local crazies don’t get them nuked.
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