Was this so hard for the media to get these facts straight? Yes. However, Tancredo sure got some milage out of this. This administration should take note & find out how these terrorist countries would possibly help us if they knew their possessions could go up in smoke if any terrorist act should happen again. That wouldn't be politially correct in the compassionate conservative administration but we are told that illegals only come here for jobs & Islam is a religion of peace.
Spencer makes a 'straw-man' argument here and argues beside the point as well.
I suppose a few of us may think we should just strap Slim Picken's body to a hydrogen bomb, as in the movie `Dr. Strangelove', and drop it on Mecca. Following this article and others by conservatives, the question remains unanswered: what do we do if the unthinkable becomes reality? (Below)
If I were a reader for al Quaida, my understanding of this article would be,
"If we were to strike them in such a manner, they would not respond in kind."
I'm sure we have contingency plans, but our leadership should make the salient thrust of those plans clear to the enemy, and that would be that our response would be nuclear strike against an Islamic target. (Spinning the wheel . . . although I suppose even at that stage there would be some who would argue, "Gee, but won't that make them mad?")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb