Well not to mention there is a reason for people to feel oppressed, especially to the point were they are willing to give there lives. I not implying that bombers are justified just that we should look at there actions as casusal. one event (called cause) and another event (called effect) which is the consequence (result) Everything is done for a reason, whethier you are christian, muslim, jew buddist, bla bla bla ... ECT. Any of these people would do extreme things if there way of life was disturbed/threatened enough. OH and have they, Dear God look what the christians did in the first crusades when they fianally breached Jerusalems walls. Well The texts speak litterally of rivers of blood, not a singal musslim was spared.

My rant does have a point, And that is that seperation of church and state was part of our constitution. If we declare war on Islam we are underming every foundation this country ever stood for!!!!

If our "friends" in Saudi Arabia are on our side, Saudi troops should be PUBLIC members of the coalition forces tracking down osama. Public to demonstrate to the World that Saudi Arabia is NOT a supporter of al qada.

But I don't believe they are. Perhaps a conflict of interest?

My guess is that five minutes after such an attack takes place (and I'll pray to any god willing to listen that it never does), we'll see bin Laden on TV, wearing his biggest Cheshire Cat grin, going 'See, I told you! America hates islam, so go get'em...', and how will he be proven wrong at that point?

Actually, he'd be destroying everything we hold dear in America regarding religious tolerance and treating everyone of different faiths equally. Destroying Mecca and Medina would basically give dangerous precedence to others that it's a legitimate form of political exchange and tactic to bomb Jerusalem, the Holy Mount, St. Paul's Cathedral, Stonehenge, or any other site that holds religious or spiritual significance to other persons of faith.

And this is coming from an agnostic, not a person of any particular faith. And how is this going to help the future of mankind? What a stain on future history books – "Here's the site that used to be Mecca, the most holy of Muslim sites, but America destroyed it in 2010 after Tom Tancredo was elected President."

Let's not let this "gentleman" from Colorado have any more years of service in the Representative body, please???

What a moron..

I've yet to see TRUE Muslims in the US or anywhere march en mass denouncing Al Qada and Wahabbism.

The suicidal "wrong" would be a nuke attack on the US.

If there are 6 million Muslims in the US, whose side are they on? The US or Al Qada?

Is Saudi Arabia helping the US capture Al Qada? If so why isn't Saudi Arabia doing it publically – not under cover?

A Saudi would be able to blend in and find Osama more easily than an American.

You see the US is not Cuba where Fidel has been Presidente since 1959. There have been 10 different MEN electeted Presdient since 1959 but only ONE MAN, the SAME MAN, Castro, who for 48 years has been the ONLY Presidente of Cuba. And now as a literal dictator, Fidel is too weak to be Presidente, so his BROTHER, ANOTHER Castro will take over the family business.

As far as Mecca and the rest, their fate lies in the hands of TRUE Muslims who want to preserve Mecca, the Kabba, and are motivated to stop, disband, destroy al qada and similar Islamofascist criminal gangs.

You are a hero. Yes, I agree with you that there is no other deterrent to fight these radicals. These islamofascist are there to kill us and get their 72 virgins. You mentioned that about 10% of muslims are terrorists. I like to disagree with you on that note. I would say its about 40%.

Yes striking them in their heart will do it.

I hope you win the elections to become the leader of the free world and spread freedom and democracy throughout the islamist world.

God bless you and God bless America.

Reuben R.

Now, that will help to lessen the states as a target ...

A more likely target will be Tehran and the Iranian Holy city of Qom, from which they expect to see their Muslim "Madhi" rise from the well in that main Mosque in Qom.

It is not contradictory for a Christian to say they will nuke a muslim city, the President of the United States of America has a fiduciary responsibility to protect this country. Saudi Arabia continues to fund Sunni extremists, and promotes the Wahabbist sect of Islam, which Osama Bin Laden is a member of. So they are only friends to us out of convenience.

Having said that I would threaten to bomb Tehran and Qom if we received another attack on the homeland, and also if they do not stop interfering with us in Iraq.

Guys we are dealing with blood thirsty terroists who do want to nuke us, and if they do get a nuke they will use it.

Tancredo is smart, the only way to stop
these terroists from bombing the us is to use agressive deterrent talk by saying if you bomb us well bomb your holy sites, so in the end the probably wont bomb us if they think our president is being serious.

I reckon this is a record high for AC360 blog with more than 1600 comments. Ignore him!

You say there are 1.302 billion Muslims.

Please consider that there are 5 billion NON-Muslims. Many of whom live in highly advanced technological societies, societies that put men on the Moon and returned them safely, societies that placed remote controlled rovers on Mars, societies that defeated nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

Predominantly Hindu India almost had a nuclear war with Pakistan over Kashmir. Thankfully that never happened.

Please don't make the mistake of doubting the resolve of 5 billion NON-Muslims.

As far as I'm concerned, the US has been fighting with one arm tied behind its back too long. A nuclear attack on the US would be the straw that breaks the camels back.

I think it was very wise of Mr. Tancredo to voice the possiblity of a retaliatory strike at the heart of the Muslim world in response to any nuclear attack on the US.

This is a high stakes poker game and I'm placing my bet on the West and like minded societies.

"History is written by the victorios side"

That means those who win wars also write the history books that others study.

The good points of the loser is wiped out and his bad policies are reflected and along with that the victors bad policies are ignored while the good ones are highlighted.

Think what we would have read in the history books if Germany and Japan would have been victors of World War II.

What I intend to say here is not everything about the victor is good and loser is Bad, but it depends on how it is projected.

These are injustices every victor keeps on doing where by all the grudges of the loser is accumulated till it forms some form of protest.

The Muslim relegion was created to protect the "have not" from the attrocities of the "haves" and thus Jehad was a term coined to fight againts the injustice caused to the "have nots".

Therefore this relegion was accepeted initially by millions of "have nots"

Clocked moved on and the central theme was forgotten, because the relegion was then spread using force by the Muslim rulers who fought against the "haves" and established there regimes.

A look around the world will show that the muslims also forms the bulk of the worlds poors who also feel the developed countries are enjoying all the good things when they don,t have a good days meal. Thus the anger in them leads them to support there feeling of injustice whenever there is even a single case of "percieved" injustice by the developed world especially there leader "America"

Now coming back to Tencredo's statement.

Being a US elected representative, he should be careful about his statement in Public because in any case he will not be able to do that even when he is made the President of US as the consequences would be a full fledged was WW III where US will be precieved as the aggressor without thinking.

He may personally think anything, but as a responsible person, he sould know that no relegion preaches violence. So hitting at the highest level of muslim holy site will make US as a villian in the eyes of BILLIONS of peace loving muslims around the world who may be sympathatic to US causes at present. A handful of the Muslims are terrorist now and they are also disowned in Public by there reletives if found to be involved in any case of terrorism. All of these Terrorist will then become legitamate Solders and will get open support from from the Muslim world.

and THIS IS A MAJOR GOAL OF THE TERRERISTS, to get full fledged support from the Muslim world in the cause of JEHAD.

And Mr. Tancredo, you are helping them to achieve their GOAL.

So go on and bomb the holy site and make US a site of WW III

If Japan could bomb Pearl Harbour in 1941 so Terrorist can do much more in 2007. 9/11 may then be like a Trailor.

Look at the foriegn poliy:

Are all US foriegn policies politically correct?

Are they making friends or more enimies?

Are they doing anything for the "HAVE NOTS" or adding more to the kitty of "HAVES"?

and then fight the US Presidential war based on the Policies that a US President will follow to make the world a safer place with more people accepting US as their leader.

I suggest we wait until they are all at Mecca then bomb it. They showed no mercy for us on 9/11, so we are just returning the favor."

But, mind you Chris, the most populous time is when when Muslims worldwide congregate in Mecca during the Hajj season. Well, you may eliminate 2 million Muslims and create a gargantuan crater in Mecca and Medina. But simple maths will say this:
Total Muslims 1.302 billion.
Eliminate 2 million, and you get one third of the world population attacking the U.S from the north, south, east and west. They will come with ill-equipped molotovs and also well-prepared nuclear and super-ionic bombs and missiles.

What you give, you get back.

Posted By Chris – Clifton, NJ : August 3, 2007 1:09 pm

This policy would leave it to the Ummah to stop their crazies who are trying to trigger WW3.

BTW, if Saudi Arabia were truly a friend of the US, Saudi troops would be fighting along side of American troops to capture Osama and the Al-Qada – but Saudi Arabia is NOT.

When Ottoman Imperia decided to dismiss then actual military system and to introduce regular army (Nizaam), nobody in Bosnia wanted to go to that new Army. Then they choose a group of soldiers, dressed them in nice uniforms with turbans and put them in a line just before Gazi Husref Bey Mosque in Sarajevo. People, not knowing what that new military is, started to gather and ask what is that? Then, they heard, “This is a new Army which will protect Holly Mecca and Medina if they are attacked by non-believers”. People which refused to go to Nizaam, when heard that, instantly started to apply for Army because that was the highest possible honor for every Muslim, to protect Holly sites. In short time, the Bosnian contingent was full. Hamdija Kresevljakovic has mentioned this last in his famous book about Bosnia history. I thought about this story when I heard that somebody thinks he may bombard Mecca and Medina. I simply cannot imagine, at the first place, how somebody could even think that such the act may resolve the problem of terrorism. This would produce mega terror where ordinary people would like to revenge on anything what has western sign. Just wanted to share this anecdote from Sarajevo with you, so I cannot conclude the possible consequences of even such the statement and, as itself, such the statement makes serious harm to the peace, making average Muslim hard to fight against radical elements (mostly created by the West during the war in Afghanistan).

would Christians like it if the Vatican City was to be bombed?

Thinks again, it is a poor move and move to provoke the inside beast which when unleashed could mean WW3.

Truth Alone Triumphs

If we bomb their holy sites I suppose we should prepare for them to do the same to ours. Oh yes, right, that is why the Christianists are so supportive of Isreal, because the Isrealies protect our sites. Never mind that the Christianists think the Jews are going to hell anyway because they killed Christ. What a bunch of hypocrites. Isn't there something in the Bible about not worshipping false idols, wouldn't that include religious relics and sites. We should not be worshipping things.

Obviously, the republican party is completely demoralized. The party for wingnuts and other crazy people.

For any intelligent person that went to school and was taught RESPECT and HISTORY learned that acts of GENOCIDE (yes, that's what he's doing) is WRONG – can spot a man like Tancredo from a mile away.

For every other person that got high during class and agrees with Tancredo, all I have to say to you is that you people are no different than Hitler's followers and no different than Osama's followers ... You people are becoming the TERRORISTS!!