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Are you joking? "If they nuke US, We should nuke their Holy Sites"
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'If they nuke US, We should nuke their Holy Sites' - [Politics]
Submitted by scienott on 7/21/2005 1:35:42 PM
Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo told a radio show host that the U.S. could "take out" Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons. He made his remarks Friday on WFLA-AM.
Talk show host Pat Campbell asked the Littleton Republican how the country should respond if terrorists struck several U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.
"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, you know, you could take out their holy sites," Tancredo answered.
"You're talking about bombing Mecca," Campbell said.
"Yeah," Tancredo responded.
The congressman later said he was "just throwing out some ideas" and that an "ultimate threat" might have to be met with an "ultimate response."
Spokesman Will Adams said the four-term congressman doesn't support threatening holy Islamic sites but that Tancredo was grappling with the hypothetical situation of an attack deadlier than 9/11. "We have an enemy with no uniform, no state, who looks like you and me and only emerges right before an attack. How do we go after someone like that?"
"What is near and dear to them? They're willing to sacrifice everything in this world for the next one. What is the pressure point that would deter them from their murderous impulses?" he said.
Mohammad Noorzai, coordinator of the Colorado Muslim Council and a native of Afghanistan, said Tancredo's remarks were radical and unrepresentative but that people in Tancredo's position need to watch their words when it comes to sacred religious sites and texts.
Seriously, what is wrong with people.
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I think that every religious person should be shot dead for being such a totaly fucking moron. That way I win and everyone loses.
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its the cold war all over again. The communists have been replaced by the terrorists. Its further complicated by the fact that Terrorists don't have A single nation of residence.
History repeats itself, and the ony thing we learn from history is: we never learn from history.
All I can hope for is that nothing of the sort ever happens cause the aftermath aint gonna be pretty.
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^the terriosts fucking deserve, not all the innocent muslims that would be making pilgrimage to their holy place.. that would make us no better than the terriosts, then the u.s would have something else in its history that it shouldnt be proud of.
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^no its not the same, the us are not terriost the radical fundamentalists muslims are, if you really had any pride in the us then you would realize this, how would you feel if you were visiting a holy christian place or going to church and you were nuked by the strongest county in the world.. what the terriosts did was horrible and im not justifying it at all.. but you cna just say we should kill many innocent lives to make the guilty ones suffer, because they wont
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Thank you for answering my question, but if another country which was a major consumer happened to be our closetst (and only) neighbour, dont you think that we would export all of our stuff to them as well? I wont argue that we enjoy your protection, but there are many many issues that we get the short end of the stick on. But you said you were dont with the debat, and so shall I.
So, If you had stoped at an eye for an eye, only 2 buildings destroyed and only thousands of terrorists left dead. i would have not be having this argument. The fact of the matter is that terrorists have not destroyed family homes, yes, they did kill innocent people but those innocent people were not innocent in their eyes. They were the ones who are guilty of perptuatining the materialistic capitilist society which has kept their people oppressed with economic sanctions killing tens of thousands because they couldnt get things like iodine to clean their drinking water. Dont get me wrong, what the terrorists did is totaly bullshit and they deserve to have the warath of the US government fall upon them. But the innocent people of these nations who are are in no way linked to terrorism do not deserve the pain and suffering which we are forcing upon them.
An eye for an eye is understandable, but it is the hardest thing to do. Its nearly impossible to just stop once you have the eye. The burning hatred makes you want to continue, but it also causes hatred in return.
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word man, eye for an eye makes the world go blind
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i see a WWII trend here. the japanese bombed pearl harbor, and we most definitely kicked there ass when we bombed hiroshima and nagasaki. granted this is on a much larger scale because it involves nuclear weapons. the only thing we would truely have to worry about is if Islamic radicals teamed up with N. Korea. they have much more supply for mass destruction. no way in hell 20 suitcase nukes would destroy the United States
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north korea has nothing to benefit from collaborating with Islamic radicals, becuase Kim Jong Il's government is not specifically anti-U.S. there is a much greater risk of north korea using their nuclear weapons on south korea or japan than somewhere in the west. theoretically, he could sell a weapon to terrorists, but if the radiation at the bomb site matched the nuclear waste being spewed out of a north korean plutonium-processing plant, it would probobly
be the death of the current North Korean regime.
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drop cliffs not bombs, ha
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yah 20 suit case nukes definatly wont destroy the US but it will distroy the economy. the terorists claim to have small pox that they will spray on 2 or 3 majour cities after the intial nuclear attacks. this will certainly not kill even 1/8th of the US population but the terrorists hope they will be able to distroy the economy because they want to take away what the feel US citizens value the most, money. this all could posibly be a scam to an extent by the terrorists because they just want to strike fear into the hearts of americans.
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No man, I took AP Euro two years ago. I actually read a lot of books on european history, so there is the answere to your question. Also, I know that Fuhrer means leader. It also just so happens that I did spell it right. You may have misread the the one post I wrote a few pages ago where I said something along the lines of "The Fuhrer (Hitler for you ignorant New Yorkers) was considered a deity". I didn't intend it to be read as fuhrer means Hitler, but rather that Hitler was the fuhrer. The nazis actually believed that their fuhrer was a god incarnated on earth. This goes back to the nazi believe in an anchient master race of godlike men who were destined to rule the world. An ancient civilization of people who were the true children of god were dispersed all over europe and even as far away as nepal and tibet. The nazis altered any stories of things that would support this legend to make them their own (i.e. Atlantis and also the Aryan conquest of India). Anyway at the head of all of this was the belief that Hilter was a true natural born descendant of said godlike race and therefor he was to be held as the center of the nazi religion as their fuhrer.
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good idea
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