Tancredo for Republican nominee in 2008!

The US State Department denounced Friday a lawmaker's suggestion to threaten

an attack on Islamic holy sites in order to deter a nuclear attack on

American soil, saying the idea is "absolutely crazy."

"Let me just say that it is absolutely outrageous and reprehensible for

anyone to suggest attacks on holy sites -- whether they are Muslim,

Christian, Jewish or those of any other religion," Tom Casey, a spokesman

for the department, told reporters.

Tom Tancredo, a Republican presidential hopeful, was reported to have said

that the best way he could think of to deter a nuclear terrorist attack on

the United States was to threaten to retaliate by bombing Islamic holy

sites.

"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 was quoted saying Tuesday in Iowa by a political website,

IowaPolitics.com.

"Beyond the loss of human life and devastation, it would cause a worldwide

economic collapse," Tancredo said of a nuclear attack on US soil, according

to the website.

Tancredo, a five-term Republican congressman from Colorado, is more

popularly known for his hardline stand on illegal immigration.

Following the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda terror attacks, the United States

is worried about the prospect of terrorists striking again, this time with a

nuclear, chemical or biological weapon.

"We and many of our friends, and Muslim friends and allies are all doing

what we can to take on extremists and take on terrorism and to somehow

suggest that an appropriate response to terrorism would be to attack sites

that are holy and sacred to more than a billion people throughout the world

is just absolutely crazy," Casey said.

Spokespersons for Tancredo's office could not be immediately contacted, but

Casey said the lawmaker's staff had reportedly tried to clarify his comment.

"Certainly, this administration and, for that matter all parties, have

always made it very clear that we want to have good, positive relations with

countries certainly in the Middle East and broader Muslim world," Casey

said.

"Any suggestion that the defense of the American homeland or the defense of

American interests would ever justify attacking holy sites or religious

sites is just simply an idea that goes against the length or breadth of US

history," he said.

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He's a bigger asshole than

bush,jr...that's really going some!

The Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of America!