Tancredo: Bomb the SHIT Out of ToiletTown Mecca! YeeHAW!

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/1/171821.shtml?s=ic

Rep. Tancredo: Threaten Muslim Holy Sites to Deter Terror

Before he became a candidate for president, Tom Tancredo was telling

Americans that the U.S. should threaten to bomb Mecca if Islamic terrorists

successfully detonate a nuclear device in America.

In July of 2005, he said on Fox News, "If this [terror attack] happens, and

if, in fact, we can prove that it was perpetrated by some fundamentalist

Islamic - 'Islamo-fascist' is really I think what we should call them - then

you might think about this as a threat, the retaliation on their holy sites.

"We are talking about a situation where our very lives are at stake, not

just the life of the United States, but of Western civilization," he

insisted.

A week later, Tancredo told WFLA Florida radio host Pat Campbell:

"You know, there are things that you could threaten to do before [a terror

attack] happens ..."

The Colorado Republican then explained: "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."

Asked if he was talking about bombing Mecca, Tancredo replied: "Yeah."

And the congressman and presidential candidate is not backing down from

these comments. He told an audience in Iowa today, almost exactly two years

later, that as president he would advocate the very same position.

"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," the GOP presidential candidate said, according to IowaPolitics.com.

"That is the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing

what they would otherwise do.

"If I am wrong fine, tell me, and I would be happy to do something else. But

you had better find a deterrent or you will find an attack. There is no

other way around it. There have to be negative consequences for the actions

they take. That's the most negative I can think of."

He further warned: "The president and this country better figure out exactly

what it can do to deter, I underline deter, the next attack.

"Deter, not just respond, deter, or else I assure you we are going to

suffer. The extent of which of course I do not know. I know what they are

planning and I know what they want. I do not know if they are going to be

capable of doing this tomorrow, the next day or a month from now. I know

right now at this moment there is nothing that deters them."