Posted on 07/18/2005 3:48:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle
I heard the voice quotes earlier. He was "goaded" into saying "Yes......." in answer to a question by a talk show host re an Israeli person saying that we, the USA, are going to be targeted massively (implying nukes) within the next 3 months.
NOW, the GREAT HUGH HEWITT has spent the last nearly TWO HOURS calling names, saying these people (us, apparently), are crazy etc.etc.etc. Hugh implies that Islam is a "Religion of Peace". Where have we heard that before?
Talk about giving aljezeera plenty of talking points. Thanks a lot, Hugh.
I listen to Hugh nearly every day, most of the time I find him a thoughtful person. Today, I think that if Tancredo stepped over the line, he WAS NOT ALONE!!!
The Dems can do what they want, the "people" would be on the warpath, and it wouldn't matter a whit what peaceniks thought.
Bombing a city all Muslims hold as holy would be a moronic move and it's a stupid suggestion. Maybe it's alright to spout off in a web forum but this is the real world where actions have consequences. You think they hate us now wait until this gets out. If we nuked Mecca then I would think that the Muslims could justifiably call the U.S. "The great Satan". Tancredo should lose his seat for this idiocy.
Uh it was 1945 and we were the only nuclear power.
Seems that tancredo is stuck there and doesn't know that there are other countries with nuclear weapons, while he's whipping up anti-American sentiment, for cheap political points.
MAD existed decades before Reagan. He did just the opposite. He supported SALT.
If just one American Soldier dies because of Tancredo's irresponsible blathering he should be removed from Congress.
Bull. Your apparent dislike for Tom Tancredo seems to set you off where no malice was intended.
If you don't believe the US has contingency plans for various events, you're living in a fantasy world. I've even heard about one for an invasion of Canada if it ever became necessary. I've also talked with a guy who helps design these plans. There is nothing wrong with doing this, nor is knowing about them or mentioning them in any way classified or secret.
Perhaps I could have been clearer. Tancredo only said everything is on the table should anything happen. My addition was the fact of these plans being there. Nor did Tancredo say anything about his knowing specifics. He was talking in generalities as to a US reaction which I was trying to repeat here.
It's good that the idea gets put out there- give the Muslim nations something to chew on.
"long bearded smelly ones using WMDs"
I see you've traveled SA Airways.
Honestly, most everyone thinks the US will blink or get caught watching the paint dry. At any rate, we might quibble so that we'll talk ourselves out of pushing the button. If Hillary is in power, she'd no doubt laugh that fly over country would be a little less red state.
I would hope my countrymen would come to my aid if my city, cornfields, water, and what's left of family, friends and me glowed in the dark for the next 100 years. That would mean doing more than holding up a candle.
"Bombing a city all Muslims hold as holy"
I remind you that the Vatican has specifically been mentioned as a target by al-Q.
Then why make them public for cheap political points.
If anything tancredo should have his security clearance revoked for being a blabbermouth for his own politcal aggrandizement to a small poltical base.
That should be, "their minds is made up!"
thank you for posting this. I've listened. There really is nothing here...the press must be really, really desperate to try to make anything out of this. Desperately paranoid maybe a better way of saying it -- Howard Dean's Disease.
Uhh... my point was not the weapon used, but that civilians were the target.
The Tancredo supporters aren't Republicans, most are the old Buchanan crowd whose hatred for President Bush and the Republican Party has been simmering for five years, but they don't have the ... to admit who they are.
The Tancredo supporters aren't Republicans, most are the old Buchanan crowd whose hatred for President Bush and the Republican Party has been simmering for five years, but they don't have the to admit who they are.
I heard the voice quotes earlier. He was "goaded" into saying "Yes......." in answer to a question by a talk show host re an Israeli person saying that we, the USA, are going to be targeted massively (implying nukes) within the next 3 months.
NOW, the GREAT HUGH HEWITT has spent the last nearly TWO HOURS calling names, saying these people (us, apparently), are crazy etc.etc.etc.
Talk about giving aljezeera plenty of talking points. Thanks a lot, Hugh.
I listen to Hugh nearly every day, most of the time I find him a thoughtful person. Today, I think that if Tancredo stepped over the line, he WAS NOT ALONE!!!
Billions? Where do you come up with this number? That's a little over the top.
At any rate, nobody has actually said anything about killing anybody, just destroying Mecca. Who says you can't give 'em 24 hours to clear out of the place? Destroy their holy sites is what Tancredo said. Let 'em evacuate it first if they have a mind to. Then make it glow.
And besides that, Tancredo isn't actually saying we should actually do it. He's saying we should say we'll do it (and mean it). In other words, use a serious threat to avert a catastrophe. I think if you could make a credible threat that averted a nuke being set off in a city whether it be a US city or a Muslim city- it would be a good thing no?
No its just $%^@heads like yourself who twist comments out of context and blow them up out of proportion who are resposible for pablum-spewing weaklings like Bush winning the primaries.
No he won't. Buchanan, Keyes, Forbes and Bauer didn't pull Bush off course in 2000.
A serious candidate has hie eyes focused on November and what it takes to win. He isn't going to be blown of course by some blowhard vanity candidate who's just scamming money off of people with emotional issues who respond to false bravado.
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