Posted on 01/07/2005 12:32:37 AM PST by hope
We didn't even kill Mullah Omar when he's in sights because the lawyer had to OK it first.
But selling a "private" newspaper that tickles ears is a way to make some dough, so....
That's down right purdy!
Nice pic!
;-)
How to respond to a 9-11 Part II? Taking out Mecca, despite your legitimate point, would be in keeping with Bush's response to the first one.
Oh, my...Osama's been reading my posts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306881/posts?page=145#145
Approaching pilgrims could see Mecca in the distance better if it glowed in the dark.
Nuking Mecca won't accomplish anything, except alienate almost all the Muslims in the world. But threatening Damascus, Khartoum or any other potential terrorist- harboring states is more practical. Even that Libyan leader is untrustworthy.
Nuking Mecca won't accomplish anything, except alienate almost all the Muslims in the world. But threatening Damascus, Khartoum or any other potential terrorist- harboring states is more practical. Even that Libyan leader is untrustworthy.
I think it maybe enough to warn the Muslimes that SEVERAL nuke missles are aimed at Yecca and it wouldn't take much to let one fly. I think that rock would remain pretty hot for a long time.
The US will not nuke Mecca. Now Iran's and N Korea's nuclear program is on the table for sure.
"O ye of little faith.."
Tell us something we didn't know.....:o)
Who cares about Damascus or Khartoum? Do you think the threat of us nuking Damascus is gonna make the extremsists in Indonesia come around? They could care less.
The threat of us nuking Mecca though. That gets their attention, or as my father used to say. "Gets them by the short and curlies"
OK, so some unnamed bureaucrats insinuate that the US would nuke Mecca if alQaeda struck again. Not exactly an iron-clad nuclear policy. This sounds like rumor and speculation. Most likely wishful thinking.
This is really a very unfortunate rumor. Here we are enguaged in a war trying to enlist the help of the average Iraqi on the street, and here some well meaning (or NOT) dufus is lofting a hypothetical that sees us destroying the most sacred shrine known to those very Iraqi folks on the street.
This is what one might call a wedge issue. It couldn't be designed better to separate us from potential allies, if it were designed by Laden himself.
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