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Tancredo: No apology
Rocky Mountain News ^ | July 19, 2005 | By M.E. Sprengelmeyer

Posted on 07/19/2005 5:11:10 AM PDT by johnny7

He believes bombing of Muslim holy sites has been discussed

WASHINGTON - The remarks were hypothetical but the outrage was real.

Facing mounting criticism, Rep. Tom Tancredo on Monday refused to apologize for suggesting the United States could target Muslim holy sites if radical Islamic terrorists set off multiple nuclear attacks in American cities.

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apology; islam; mecca; muslim; nukemecca; tancredo
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Fire away.
1 posted on 07/19/2005 5:11:11 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: johnny7

APOLOGY... sorry.


2 posted on 07/19/2005 5:13:47 AM PDT by johnny7 (“'I bet 'ya think I'm 'kickin you Bob...!”” -Sheriff 'Little Bill' Dagget)
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It was an incredibly stupid thing to say, but it serves his purpose - more headlines.


3 posted on 07/19/2005 5:13:53 AM PDT by loreldan
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To: johnny7

No apologies necessary until the imams and their cult start protesting their radical "brothers".


4 posted on 07/19/2005 5:13:53 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU and all Mosques in the US,UK.)
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To: johnny7

If anyone launches a nuclear attack against us, I hope we'll do a whole lot more than target a few holy sites.


5 posted on 07/19/2005 5:14:27 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters
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To: johnny7
Facing mounting criticism...

Mounting? From what then to what now?

Criticism? From who?

It's so easy for the MSM to throw that statement out to justify their own position and set up a story to read the way they want it to.

6 posted on 07/19/2005 5:14:48 AM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: loreldan

Stupid in what way?

As a British source said, "The Arab understands power and vengence."

Arab terror bombers are hardly likely to respond to anything other than an assurance that Mecca, Medina, Aceh et al will be turned into Trinitite.


7 posted on 07/19/2005 5:16:57 AM PDT by GladesGuru ("In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles)
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To: loreldan

No it wasn't. It will put the fear of God (ours) in them.


8 posted on 07/19/2005 5:17:18 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: johnny7

In other news, China has refused to apologize for threatening the U.S. with a nuclear strike...


9 posted on 07/19/2005 5:19:55 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: johnny7

Good for him. I'm so sick of the everlasting apologizing. Would the Professionally Offended just go home and get drunk, or something?


10 posted on 07/19/2005 5:20:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Democrats ... frolicking on the wilder shores of Planet Zongo.)
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To: GladesGuru

Thank god we finally have a politician who has a set of tennis balls where it counts. He seems to have relized that Islam declared war on us, and we have to respond like a nation at war.


11 posted on 07/19/2005 5:21:13 AM PDT by kris0822 (Irracible American)
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To: johnny7

oh boy. nothing paints a bullseye on you quite like the term "no apology" being ascribed to you by the media. it's their equivalent of taping a "kick me" sign to your back.


12 posted on 07/19/2005 5:21:34 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (In Honor of Terri Schiavo. *check my FReeppage for the link* Let it load and have the sound on.)
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To: loreldan

"It was an incredibly stupid thing to say, but it serves his purpose - more headlines."

No it wasn't. It's what more people HAVE to say.

One Nuke goes off on American Soil and the middle east will burn and all of their Religious Sites will beat them to heaven.

More needs to be said. I.e. we'll take their mosques apart here brick by brick.


13 posted on 07/19/2005 5:24:30 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
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To: the invisib1e hand

What he said was accurate..we are in a religious war...the only thing Arabs care about is power..we have it and need to use it... someone said there are 1 billion Arabs we are offending..but if we do it right..it might be down to 500,000 million...we can handle that..and it will take them a generation to recover...they understand power...if we fail to use it..they will kill us off little by little...and personally I don't want to change


14 posted on 07/19/2005 5:28:03 AM PDT by Youngman442002
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To: johnny7

Dang right no apology. Let's make it perfectly clear to the extremist lovingly Saudis, Iranians, Pakistanis, Egyptians, Syrians, etc. When your well funded and supported terrorists detonate a/some nuclear IED(s) in US cities and kill innocent non-muslims and Muslims alike there will be hell to pay. Targets established by the the U.S. government will be destroyed. We will let you guess where or when but rest assured those targets will be parking lots. Remember London and Pearl Harbor. We gave back Berlin, Dresden, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Don't ever forget that we Anglos are survivors and will fight back with all our heart.


15 posted on 07/19/2005 5:29:15 AM PDT by Chgogal
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To: johnny7

I like this guy and his style. I hope he does run for President.


16 posted on 07/19/2005 5:32:18 AM PDT by retiredcpo (2 johns - flushed)
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To: Leatherneck_MT
Yesterday I thought Tancredo was a little too over-the-top.

But 'ya know... he's not the president... and SOMEONE in our ranks HAD to say it! We WANT them to think we're nuts... we WANT them to think that Bush is like Reagan.

For whatever it's worth... I approve.

17 posted on 07/19/2005 5:37:41 AM PDT by johnny7 (“'I bet 'ya think I'm 'kickin you Bob...!”” -Sheriff 'Little Bill' Dagget)
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To: DTogo

Bob Schieffer, Matt Cooper, the DNC and all the RINOs on FR say Bush should fire Tancredo for leaking Valerie Plame's cover, and appoint a moderate Supreme Court justice, preferable a dark-skinned female lesbian left-handed pro-abort who won't bomb Mecca. Bush should apologize too and pay reparations, then resign.


18 posted on 07/19/2005 5:41:00 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: johnny7
As long as the terrorists know that anyone who speaks out will get crucified in the media, they'll keep seeing us as a target.

I'd hate to see the Holy Sites destroyed, but if the threat of such a thing is effective, I'm all for it. Why should we be expected to play nice while we're being attacked by a bunch of fruit-baskets with diapers on their heads???
19 posted on 07/19/2005 5:41:17 AM PDT by neverhome ("Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." --William Penn)
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To: johnny7

He should apologize to the President for shooting off his mouth.


20 posted on 07/19/2005 5:42:50 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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