Posted on 07/27/2005 10:06:07 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Once again, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo is speaking for the majority of sane Americans. And once again, liberals, terrorist sympathizers (is there an echo in here?), and cowards across the country want him rebuked and repudiated.
Democrats, some Muslim groups, and the partisan media are boo-hooing over comments Tancredo made regarding the war on terror. Specifically, they’re upset over his response to a question by radio interviewer Pat Campbell—who asked Tancredo what the appropriate response would be to a nuclear terror threat against America.
Tancredo said the following: “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 could take out their holy sites.’”
Campbell said, “You’re talking about bombing Mecca.”
To which Tancredo replied, “Yeah. What if you said, we recognize that this is the ultimate threat to the United States, therefore this is the ultimate response.”
Predictably, shock emanated from both liberals and conservatives. Liberals were furious over the barbarism of such an idea, adding Tancredo’s name to the Karl Rove/Tom DeLay list of Republicans to get thrown out of office.
Somehow, this version of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)—the wildly popular liberal solution to anything involving a threat of violence against Americans—is suddenly unacceptable to pacifiers on the Left.
While conservatives believe threatening Mecca with Daisy Cutters makes perfect sense, the liberal solution to Muslim terrorism looks a lot more like a paralyzed chicken asking a hungry fox not to eat him.
It’s simply fascinating that liberals—who have such little faith in God—have no trouble believing that the natural born killers of Al Qaeda would make peace with us if we would simply be nicer to them.
Conservatives, on the other hand, were shocked to find anyone in our federal government with enough common sense to say something so intelligent.
While liberals decry Tancredo’s remarks as hateful and demand the Republican Party denounce him, the Colorado congressman is sticking by his statement.
In the Denver Post, he wrote, “Many critics of my statements have characterized them as ‘offensive,’ and indeed they may have offended some. But in this battle against fundamentalist Islam, I am hardly preoccupied with political correctness, or who may or may not be offended. Indeed, al-Qaeda cares little if the Western world is ‘offended’ by televised images of hostages beheaded in Iraq, subway bombings in London, train attacks in Madrid, or Americans jumping to their death from the Twin Towers as they collapsed.”
For their part, Republicans at large have not repudiated Tancredo.
Instead, like the crazy uncle who shows up drunk to every family gathering (or as the Kennedy’s call him…Uncle Teddy), Republicans try to ignore Tancredo, hoping he’ll just go away.
But the congressman is right, the American people know it, and his comments should be defended, not refuted.
Just as the country rallied behind President Bush following the 9/11 attacks, when he promised “the people who knocked those buildings down will here from all of us,” Tancredo speaks for the majority of Americans, who don’t want thousands more of their countrymen murdered before our government decides to take further action against terrorists.
Tancredo’s message is an important warning to all involved in the war on terrorism.
Those who presently turn a blind eye to terror need to know that there will be consequences for their inaction. They believe Mecca and other religious sites are sacred. Americans feel the same way about our lives and our freedom. If they are willing to stand by while their countrymen kill innocent American civilians, they should know what the consequences could be.
For our part, Americans must realize that those who aid, sponsor, and hide terrorists do not understand peace, harmony, or freedom.
Our enemies speak only the language of death.
They need to know that any attack on American soil will be met with an incomprehensible destruction that will give new meaning to the word.
About the Writer: Matthew Holmes is a North Carolina based columnist. His articles have been featured in the North Carolina Conservative, ChronWatch.Com, World Net Daily.Com, News Max.Com, Opinion Editorials.Com, and other media outlets. He can be reached at blade729@msn.com
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Maybe a display of this ability at the next hadj would drive this point home!
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To Young Muslims in America,
Talk is cheap.
If you want me to believe you are my countrymen, you must do more than talk.
You must turn out your radicals and hand them over to the police.
You must audiotape and videotape your radicals, gathering the necessary evidence for convicting them of treason, sedition, insurrection, and lesser criminality.
You must repudiate jihad utterly, uniformly, unambiguously, and without loophole or equivocation.
Ultimately, you must confess to the sins of scripture in your odious creed, and denounce them, literally tearing out those passages in the Koran and Hadith which promulgate the eternal war of Islam against all others... Tear them out and feed them to swine, so that we may begin to believe you do not hold them to be sacred.
Until you do these things, there is no chance at all that anyone familiar with your creed and its advocacy of infiltration, deception, and treachery will ever believe in your sincerity.
So shut up and do these things, or do them not and be known for the enemy-within you are.
in cordial disdain,
America
Ver friggin batim !!
*bows*
Best statement I have seen in sometime. Kudos oh worshipfull master : )
"And once again, liberals, terrorist sympathizers..."
Call them what they are, Islamist copperheads acting as a fifth column for the terrorists.
"We have the ability but not the will to do anything.
When we have the will, will we still have the ability?"
Sharon said, Israel's enemies lack the means, but have the will to destroy the Jews.
Israel has the means, but lacks the will to destroy her enemies.
He said the outcome would be decided by who got there first.
och, stand, man - I'm not th'Pope!
I support this statement also. I think Bush should agree also and annouce it so every islamic terrorist can hear it. This could be the only way the USA could divert such an attack on our soil.
I guess he and I agree on that. Clearly we (and Israel) have the capacity to destory all of America's (Israel's) enemies. We are not wielding that threat properly.
People don't fear us (or Israel) like they should.
Israel will get the chance to flatten gaza after they leave and the PLO starts daily attacks on Israel from their new territory.
GOOD , It's about some of those murdering B@stards were offended...
It is because the leftists, feminists, and Rats have has their way for too long - the Average American is a farkin' pu$$y.
For our part, Americans must realize that those who aid, sponsor, and hide terrorists do not understand peace, harmony, or freedom.
Our enemies speak only the language of death.
They need to know that any attack on American soil will be met with an incomprehensible destruction that will give new meaning to the word.
Just like Tancredo's words on our border/immigration problems: the Bushbots are hoping he'll just go away.
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