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Tancredo: 'We are at war with radical fundamentalist Islam'
Manchester Union Leader ^ | September 7, 2007

Posted on 09/07/2007 3:42:52 AM PDT by billorites

HUDSON – Colorado congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo declared yesterday that the United States was the last great hope for western civilization.

"I believe we are in a clash of civilizations," said Tancredo. "Terror is a tactic but not the thing we are at war with. We are at war with radical fundamentalist Islam." Tancredo made his statement during a visit to BAE Systems' facility in Hudson and told employees there that the global defense company's technological contributions are being used to defend the country.

He commended the employees for their dedication to the nation and to the troops on the frontline and stated that he had a similar dedication that inspired him to run for the presidency.

"I do this because there are a set of ideas and issues I care about and this is the place I have to go to impact them," Tancredo said.

Discussing his position as a "second-tier candidate," Tancredo said in order to get traction, he and the other second-tier candidates must perform well in New Hampshire and Iowa in order to make it to the next round of state primaries.

Luckily, candidates can campaign in New Hampshire and Iowa without expending too much money, Tancredo said.

Tancredo also had harsh criticism about the United Nations and the Unites States role in it. Describing the U.N. as a waste of time and money, he added that it has been corrupted up to the highest level and turned into "an anti-America debating society."

"We give 24 percent of the budget and receive 100 percent of the grief," Tancredo said.

During his visit to the facility, Tancredo was also briefed about BAE System's First InterComm, an interoperable communications system that could be used by first responders.

According to Mike Greene, BAE director of Homeland Security Solutions, First InterComm, ties together all the frequencies bands that first responders use. Using their existing radios, each agency would then be able to easily communicate with one another.

Tancredo also tested out thermal cameras used by the border patrol to detect potential illegal aliens trying to enter the country.

In addition to Tancredo's stop in Hudson he also held a meet-and-greet in Hollis and a town hall meeting in Merrimack.


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1 posted on 09/07/2007 3:42:55 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites
Radical Islam is at war with the entire world. We have barely begun to fight, mostly amongst ourselves. We defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan by destroying their ideologies as well as their armies.

If we do not declare war and discredit radical Islam we cannot win.

2 posted on 09/07/2007 3:47:42 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: billorites

Bump!

The more I hear of Tancredo... the more I find that he’s probably the only candidate for the Republican nomination that I can stomach.


3 posted on 09/07/2007 3:58:36 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative.)
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To: billorites
We are at war with radical fundamentalist Islam."

Wrong Congressman. Radical fundamentalist Islam is a redundant term. We are at war with Islam.
4 posted on 09/07/2007 4:05:41 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Man50D

>>We are at war with Islam.<<

Bingo.

Islam has been at war with everyone since its inception 1400 some years ago.

The sooner we get on the ball and start accepting this, the sooner we can be victorious over it.

Unfortunately, I think we’re (as a nation) too far gone from a PC standpoint to let ourselves win. Out politicians kowtow at the first whiff of trouble.


5 posted on 09/07/2007 4:08:34 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow (FR Member ItsOurTimeNow: Declared Anathema by the Council of Trent)
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To: Man50D

> Wrong Congressman. Radical fundamentalist Islam is a
> redundant term. We are at war with Islam.

As unfortunate as this may be, it is correct.

There may be moderate Moslems, but there is NO moderate Islam.

Islam is a radical, aggressive, totalitarian political movement striving for global hegemony, disguised as a “religion”.


6 posted on 09/07/2007 4:09:56 AM PDT by Westbrook
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To: GeronL

...and Islam is contented to wait for a winner.


7 posted on 09/07/2007 4:12:34 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: johnny7

we can say “radical islam” for now, but it will soon be obvious we must totally discredit islam itself for civilization to survive


8 posted on 09/07/2007 4:15:13 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: billorites; All
Gee, I've been beating on that drum, for years...

For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:



Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...

9 posted on 09/07/2007 4:15:14 AM PDT by backhoe (Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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To: GeronL

You are absolutely right. When will the masses in the country wake up and realize what is going on in the world?


10 posted on 09/07/2007 4:34:04 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: GeronL
...we must totally discredit islam itself for civilization to survive

Nation/states only play on the peripheries of this conflict as well... citizenship becomes meaningless.

11 posted on 09/07/2007 4:45:28 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: billorites

12 posted on 09/07/2007 4:47:23 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: johnny7
heck, someone can walk over the border soon be voting, collecting welfare and working for less than minimum wage, whats a citizen?

this conflict could last 100 years or more, I wonder how much of the political map of the world will change in the meantime?

13 posted on 09/07/2007 4:48:53 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts

Not until they are kneeling before a mass grave, hands tied and a gun to their heads.

Even then they will probably scream, “Bush’s fault!” just before the muslim standing behind them pulls the trigger.


14 posted on 09/07/2007 4:49:04 AM PDT by Pete98 (After his defeat by the Son of God, Satan changed his name to Allah and started over.)
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To: Man50D
That’s true. You never hear muslims having a bake sale or doing something good. They are always associated with controversies. Look at the flying Imams. They're what would be called the moderate muslims.
15 posted on 09/07/2007 4:50:07 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Freedom of Speech is for everyone, not just liberals.)
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To: billorites; All

FReeper comments BUMP!


16 posted on 09/07/2007 4:54:56 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: GeronL

A formal declaration of war is absolutely needed in a war liek this, but here’s why we haven’t had one since the forties:

“In the 1960s, while American men and women were dying in the jungles of
Vietnam and while the military/industrial complex was sucking trillions of
dollars out of American taxpayers’ wallets, the Rockefeller dynasty was
financing Vietnamese oil refineries and aluminum plants. If there had ever
been a formal declaration of war, the Rockefellers could be tried for
treason. Instead, they reaped dividends. “

from: http://www.freedomdomain.com/neworder/cfr01.html


17 posted on 09/07/2007 4:55:22 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Sworn to oppose control freaks, foreign and domestic.)
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To: ovrtaxt
Thanks for the link --- very informative.

BTW Rockefeller's Standard Oil was selling oil to Spain [and hence Germany]during WWII --- and after the war this too was swept under the rug.

18 posted on 09/07/2007 6:28:54 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: billorites

Mr. Obvious stating that which so few will even ponder.


19 posted on 09/07/2007 6:32:41 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
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