[The Lake City Gar]

It's a beautiful day and I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade but I've taken a beating trying to argue against such sweeping accusations against 1.6 BILLION people. And today, I think I've been proven right. I hope some of the hateful people I have described above agree...

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[Hobsonphile]

I've never been a part of that crowd, so you are preaching to the choir here.

[Sir Gawain]

The "Islam is a death cult" crowd?

I'm right here.

[nanomid]

Nuke Medina first. Then Mecca.

Is that better?

[Im Your Huckleberry]

I'm still here.

And I'm still for it, too.

[KevinDavis]

After seeing some of the pictures, I was wrong to think that all muslims are evil.

[yianni]

Everyone knows that allah continues to protect the Kaaba from the Crusaders' TLAMs.

[EternalVigilance]

There aren't 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. There aren't the one billion claimed by many either.

Your repeated insistence on using such a phony figure doesn't strengthen your case.

[Cicero]

I'm not in favor of nuking Mecca or anywhere else. But I still think this is likely to be a long campaign. Iraq is only one stage in the war against terror. There will be many more stages yet to come before this is over, IMHO.

[Timmy]

If the rest of the middle east isn't cleaned up, the Iraqis will hate our guts and call for jihad against us in < five years. I don't want to NUKE Mecca, I just want to occupy it and ride their camels.

[Texas Lizard]

We are all still here!
I still think All Arabs should be deported.

[honeygrl]

I think most of the people you've seen who've said "Nuke Mecca" were speaking facetiously. Just like you'll see (if you look around a bit) posts that call for nuking california (or cities in CA.) It's not much different from getting angry with someone and saying "I'll kill him!" when you don't literally mean you are going to murder the person.

[sarasmom]

Yo.
Nukes R US, at your service.
When you care enough to send the very best...
MOABs are almost as good, with much less radiation.

BTW, have the voices of those who call for "death to the USA" been muted?
Check back with me when they are the undisputed minority of Islamic rabble-rousers, and I might reconsider my preferred targets.

[11B3]

We are still here - and we hope you are right - because we still have countless enemies in the middle east. Just in case you forgot, the jihadists have still been trying to flood into Iraq to harm our forces. Granted, these fools have only been listening to Al Jezeera and the rest of the Arab media. Until their media cleans up its' act, we're still on guard. And we still believe that the only thing that the jihadists understand is overwhelming force.

The BEST allies we are going to have here in the future are Iraqis - they owe us a debt of honor, and they will support us against the rest of Islam. Even the Shias will stand for us. Having said that, we have made great inroads towards peace. This victory has the opportunity to take the wind out of the sails of OBL as well as the mullahs of Iran. Syria, however, is another nation run by the Ba'ath party - they will have to go. It ain't over yet.

[spodefly]

I have never been one of the 'Nuke Mecca' crowd, but I do believe that Islam is a fundamentally flawed ideology, and the logical (illogical) conclusion of strict adherance to Islam is more represented by Bin Laden and Al Queda than by the Iraqi people. The fact that Iraqis have been mostly a secular people give hope that they are not as 'eat up' with the jihad mentality as many of the other adherants.

To wit:

"This is a sad day for all the Arabs and Muslims, particularly the Palestinians," Nael al-Am, a Ramallah grocer who keeps a poster of Saddam Hussein in his shop, told the Jerusalem Post.

"I invested a lot of money in buying a satellite dish and a new TV set because I wanted to watch the day the battle for Baghdad begins. I was sure this was going to be one of the great battles of the century, where an Arab army would inflict heavy losses on the invading crusaders. I feel as if a dagger has been stuck in my heart when I see American soldiers strolling in the heart of Baghdad."

Since the war started, Palestinians have held almost daily demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza. They burned the U.S. and British flags, waved the Iraqi flag and carried portraits of Saddam, whom they urged to bomb Tel Aviv.

The terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad vowed to conduct suicide bombings against Israel in support of Saddam and claimed to have sent members to Iraq to kill coalition troops. Islamic Jihad carried out one suicide bombing in Netanya on March 30.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889445/posts

[neutrino]

Is this just an act? Are they trying to lull us into a false sense of security while they are plotting to kill every last one of us in the name of their "Moon God"?

Well said and true!

[EaglesUpForever]

I've never supported nuking Mecca (other than as a very last resort, if for example we're faced with more Saudi terrorists a la 9/11), but I have since 9/11 maintained that islam doesn't qualify as a religion in the sense of the world's major religions, and I stand by this.

Sure, plenty of decent people follow islam, and I'm sure some interpret in a way that can be described as devout and religious, and some would never fall for the Jihad mania of Osama and others. BUT, that "silent majority" if it exists, is TOO SILENT. I think we have to look at islam as a whole, and as long as the loud, active ones are terrorists, with no dissent or censure from the supposed "silent majority", then it is better described as a death cult than as a religion.

By their fruits shall you know them.

[Monty22]

The threat and then doing it is all that will be there is to deter these bastards from attacking us again.

My how 9/11 fades into the distant past.. so soon people forget.

[Stew Padasso]

I'm glad you posted this, I was thinking the same thing. All the big talk about turning Iraq into a glass parking lot was dispicable.

[cynicom]

This is just the opening phase of a long struggle with Islam. Your eggs are not hatched, counting the chickens is premature.