Great! What next? Picking of Muslim States one by one is not enough!? Declare war on Muslims the world over, and hasten the total anhillation of the american empire.

I noticed that you did not post my comments, yet I enjoyed the variation and diversity in responses specially those against Tancredo and some even wanted to hospitalize him for treatment which I find a good suggestion. This is a credit to American people to tell the truth.
Believe me the atrocities committed against Muslims are being directed by non-Muslims like war mongers, arm dealers, it’s a very big scheme. It seems that after the World War II some terms changed from freedom fighters to terrorists. Now there is Chaos all around the world specially in the Middle East. Of course this chaos was not initiated by the people living there, but by a few corrupted with a little help from their friends in other parts of the world who share common interests to create this chaos.
You cannot trace them because it includes countries, presidents and high officials from both sides.
The enemy is not Muslims only. The enemy is from within. So do not label any terrorists
by religion, nationality or ethnic group. Profiling in the U.S. started a long time ago. When you fill any forms you are being profiled .

Poor America if people like him have the power>>>> Prepare your self America You will be killed by your own people like him………Truly feel sad , the more people like him increase in spot , the more abhorrence & hatred the world will feel to Americans people. ..Dr. Fell please help him.

No one here has denied the threat of radical Islam, or the specific threat of a nuclear terrorist attack. There’s nothing crazy about looking at the facts and coming up with a solution to the problem.

However, not all solutions are equal. There’s a BIG difference between building a creative solution to a complicated problem and reflexively pushing the button on a city that millions of people (including some of our allies) hold sacred.

Tancredo is advocating indiscriminant mass killing as a matter of national policy. I expect more from a veteran Congressman with aspirations to the White House.

The “legal mumbo jumbo” to which Rob C referred are the rules by which the US engages in armed conflict. While it’s true that the terrorists do not subscribe to the Geneva Convention, that’s not a valid reason for us to abandon it. More importantly, the LOAC exist to provide noncombatants with as much protection as is reasonably possible during wartime.

Tancredo seems to be advocating a variation of the concept of “mutually assured destruction” that was prevalent during the cold war. The problem is that we’re not talking about two global superpowers…we’re talking about one superpower and a large assortment of small (and not so small) groups scattered around the globe.

That’s one of the things that makes terrorism so difficult to fight–terrorists don’t necessarily have a large, vulnerable central command structure and they don’t necessarily represent a particular sect or nation. It’s possible to put military and diplomatic pressure on other countries to get them to toe the line (Afghanistan and N. Korea for example), but it’s not the same with extremist groups. You’ve got to either root them out or get somebody else to do it for you (ex: Pakistan).

None of this justifies bombing Mecca. Deliberately bombing civilian targets is illegal, immoral, and counterproductive.

Austin, Greenville, SC - What though? He pulled a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo off the Internet. So what? I would prefer to use what I alrady know and come up with some original thoughts. Crazy, I know.

No, I'm saying hundreds of thousands may die if we don't stop radical Islam in it's tracks. Had Al-Qaeda had a nuclear bomb on 911, they would have used it. Technology spreads and some day they will have it. If you can't see that you're blind.

Yes, because our bombs are bigger, more accurate, more numerous, and WE choose where they go.

Posted By Sara, Denver Colorado : August 6, 2007 5:48 pm

To Rob C - we are all quite impressed with your Internet research. You’ve discovered Wikopedia - I’m quite proud of you. Let me ask you this - do you want to see American women and children blown up here in the States? That’s a yes or no question. Do you think we can prevent that playing by the old rules? You found all that info on the Internet but seem to lack the brains to process it. Rules are great when agreed upon by all parties. Radical muslims have no rules and they don’t care if they die. If we play by these rules they will win. It’s that simple. It just baffles me people like you don’t understand that. It’s like you’re living in another world. What you also fail to understand is a few thousand civilian deaths now may prevent tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands later down the road. You really don’t get this???"

Rob put some thought and research into his response. Can you say the same?

Are you seriously telling us that tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians will die if we don't bomb Mecca? That's a yes or no question.

Radical Muslims have been bombing each other for years, and it hasn't stopped anything. Yet you think the threat of our bombs will somehow deter them.

…and you accuse Rob of being in another world?

Posted By Tim, Washington, DC : August 5, 2007 10:58 pm

"I agree with Tom Tancredo, he’s a great American for defending the our homeland against muslims, marxist and liberals. We should actually make an example out of China and Iran to prove to the rest of this heathen world that America means business."

What exactly is the threat posed to the US by Marxism and Liberalism?

Once we've "made an example out of China and Iran", as you propose, how do you suppose the "rest of this heathen world" would respond?

Posted By J, CO : August 5, 2007 1:21 pm
"Keep believing that Muslims are peaceful, good people and keep granting them constitutional rights that are denied most Christian Americans. Good luck espousing liberal lunacy when Americans are living under Shari ah law."

What constitutional rights are being "denied most Christian Americans"?

When will Americans be living under Sharia law?

Do Muslim extremists speak for all Muslims? Do IRA bombers or anti-abortion gunners speak for all Christians?

Posted By wayne tn : August 6, 2007 4:53 am
"I just wanted to say that all you people should know that if you do not become a muslim and join islam when asked to convert to their religion you are supposed to be killed by them and that means all muslims it is part of their beleifs"

Please cite a reference from the Koran which says as much.

Please cite examples of mainstream Muslims killing people for refusing to convert to their religion.

this person is such an idiot

I certainly don't agree that the threat of obliteraing a holy site will gain us any advantage with the extreme muslim/jihadists. But my question is this..why don't we hear "moderate" muslims condemning the bombing of women and children or of holy sites by other muslims? We always hear how not all muslims are bad, but very rarely hear of condemnation of such acts. So where are you oh moderate muslims? Your silence is confusing. Where is the outcry about the murder of the newspaper editor in Oakland? These monsters of "faith" are living amongst us - calling themselves Americans! So if there are truly peaceful Muslims in this country..decry these acts of depravity committed by your "brothers". Why do you still support their businesses and buy bread from their stores? Hypocrites! Don't come to my neighbrhood! We watch our American brother's backs here and we arm ourselves as is our right in this country! But then you prefer the cowards way don't you? Suicide bombing little babies and their mommies! So do the moderate muslims, if they exist, care about what's really happening? Because if they don't well then aren't they really targets of their own faith? As Americans of any faith we should all condemn the murder of innocents!! Come on Americans, have some guts and walk your talk!

this guy tom tancredo is a maniac.

Tom Tancredo's hateful suggestions will not be accepted by many majority of the righteous people the non-Muslims.
What would such hooligan suggestion from an educated person teach our young generation? What a shameful example he is giving to our young people.
Thank you.

As far as I can see. Tom Tancredo is the only person for the job. He says it like it is and doesn't try to hide with a bunch of Phoney Bull like I have seen in Clinton and Obama. I think we should pull our troops home and hold any country fully resposible for attacks on American soil or Allies. I have had it with this politically correct two face LIARS that are bound to destroy the American Way of life. I got my first sample of it in Viet Nam where we had rules to follow but the enemy diddn't have to play by that same set. Start holding all Politicall leaders accountable and that includes American. Let us fight a WAR the way it has to be FOUGHT to win.

Er, Patrick, in NY, the GOP has been a haven for bigots, racists, religous zealots and sexists for decades. If every one of this group fell over dead tonight, the GOP would never win a national election again. How did you just realize this? The good old moderate, responsible GOP of Nelson Rockefeller was abandoned by the party elite long ago. Not the the attack that Tancredo suggested is a good idea, but then mutual assured destruction during the cold war was madness too. Given Tancredo vs any of the Democrats, he might get my vote due to his position on the criminal immigrants. But he is to the right of Ghengis Kahn and Dick Chaney, I know. If those that serve the darkness of terrorism actually get the Holy War they seek, there will be only one nation still standing and only one of the two religions will survive. But the world will not be better for it.

Hal,

You are sadly uneducated. There is nothing in the Quran that tells Muslims to kill anyone. In fact, the Quran says that to murder one man is to murder all of humanity, and to save the life of one man is to save all of humanity. Infidels not withstanding.

Actually, infidel is a Christian word, created by the Christians during the Crusades to describe Jews and Muslims. There is no such term as infidel in the Quran.

Perhaps bombing Mecca and Medina would teach Muslims a lesson. The sort of lesson that 9-11 taught Americans, right?

What amazes me is all of the "good" Americans on these posts who are so outraged and full of hatred over 9-11, yet they don't blink an eye when contemplating the deaths of others. I guess only American lives are worthy and all others count for nothing.
Shame on you!

Tom Tancredo is brilliant. To defeat Al Quaeda, we must be more like Al Quaeda. But I think he needs to take it one step further. It is apparent that there are extremist Muslims in every country in the world. The United States has sufficient nuclear firepower to destroy every county in the world. So, if there is another attack on U.S. soil, we will retaliate with a nuclear strike against all nations, thereby killing all the terrorists at once. Victory!

IF this happen, OFFcourse Pakistan will use his Nuclear Power to punish usa and destroy it from the World Map.

If this Mental president do then offcourse Pak will defend Saudi Places and give severe Punishment to usa because Its not Tom father land to do any thing

"The Owner of this House (Kaaba in Mecca) is its Defender, and I am sure He will save it from the attack of the adversaries and will not dishonor the servants of His House."

Read the complete article on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Elephant

Muslims do not need to defend the holy places. These are well guarded by angels of God. On two occasions in history, enemies of Kaaba tried to attack the place. In one occasion, the entire army was swallowed by the soil and what happened in the other occasion can be read in the link above.

To - Patrick, New York. So all Republican are biggots because of this one comment. What about when Biden said "You CANNOT go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts without an Indian accent." Or the comment Dean made about the black waiting staff. Neither was denounced by his party. Get a clue. Nobody is fooled by your hatefull rhetoric anymore. I think people are getting sick of politicians abandoning their principles to be policially correct and don't offend anyone. Of course this is the Democrats MO. The worse thing that could happen to this country is a Democrat in the Whitehouse in 08.

Muslims are not our enemy. Extremists like Osama Bin Laden and Tom Tancredo are. It is the stupid idea to create more enemies. Mr. TT and OB are enough who think killing people is bravery.

To Rob C - we are all quite impressed with your Internet research. You've discovered Wikopedia - I'm quite proud of you. Let me ask you this - do you want to see American women and children blown up here in the States? That's a yes or no question. Do you think we can prevent that playing by the old rules? You found all that info on the Internet but seem to lack the brains to process it. Rules are great when agreed upon by all parties. Radical muslims have no rules and they don't care if they die. If we play by these rules they will win. It's that simple. It just baffles me people like you don't understand that. It's like you're living in another world. What you also fail to understand is a few thousand civilian deaths now may prevent tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands later down the road. You really don't get this???

The arab will not defend macca read arab history and you will understand

That would be the dooms day for the world. This would guarantee the real unity of ALL Muslims against the west, the normal and the not so normal ones. Tom needs to have a good sleep and some medication to stop hallucinations and anxiety. He should withdraw from his candidacy as he does not seems to be in his mind

I have to say I respect Tancredo for at least mentioning this. It may not be a perfect solution but it is one that the Islamic world will take note of and it hopefully it will spur them to realize American means business. All this terrorism is designed to scare people from insulting Islam. At least he has the guts to speak what we all want to hear.

Posted By Hal, Brooklyn, NY:
"If they bomb New York we should bomb Mecca. That will stop terrorism in its tracks. In fact, it will not stop until then."

Muslim extremists have been bombing holy sites for years, and it hasn't stopped anything.

Why do you think they would pack up and quit if we NUKED Mecca?

Right now you are dealing with a few terrorists. If this was to happen, you would be dealing with 1.5 billion + very angry muslims. Tom Tancredo is crazy and doesn't even stand a chance to win so I wouldn't worry about this ever happening.

as a muslim american i am very reasured by comments by most of people on this topic but their are still absurd coments by people like Hal from Brooklyn which shows that their are narrow minded peope out their who we need to educate. The comments by Tancredo is very disturbing and shows that people seem to forget that there 1.5 billion muslims most of them not in the M.East and that mecca and medina belongs to muslims and not saudi arabia or any other govt.

"The Pope, and two melina [sic] of Christianity have never supported terrorism.

I hate to say it but, LOL. Hal, please turn off Sean Hannity et al and take a trip to the fine NY Public Library, or if you're too lazy, start with a Wikipedia search on the topics of the Crusades, Pope Urban II, La Reconquista, and The Inquisition.

I don't think Tom has very much gas left in his Tank or his Credo with buffoonery such as this.

Thanks Tom for showing the rest of America why you should never be given the Presidency under any circumstances.

I suppose when you know you've got a turd's chance in hell of surviving even the first official primaries of Next Year! that you might as well sound as pompous and idiotic as you can. After all, it is your 15 minutes of fame or in the case infamy.

I think this is a great idea. To answer the poor ignorant gent who equates bombing a holy site in Mecca to bombing the Vatican should a Catholic bomb us, the comparison is sadly ignorant and completely invalid.

Here is the difference. The Pope, and two melina of Christianity have never supported terrorism. However, an Islamic leader will calim to be against terrorism in public while financing it in secret. Since Mohamad, a Muslim has been considered faithful if he does whatever he can to kill infidels (i.e. nonmuslims) including suicide missions of mass murder and terrorism. This is actually taught in the Quran.

Therefore, to deter just aggression, the battle should be taken to the source. If they bomb New York we should bomb Mecca. That will stop terrorism in its tracks. In fact, it will not stop until then.

Hey Tom - Look into "Game Theory". You obviously don't understand the motivations of the terrorists. Bombing Mecca would be the nicest gift you could ever give them.

On the other hand, you just gave them this crazy statement. Expect to see it on all their propaganda videos soon.

Congratulations, you just increased their recruitment by 50%!

That Tancredo would say what he did in the first place shows a complete lack of good sense.

For him to stand by his comments shows total self-righteousness.

I can't believe that there are even a few people who are supporting this idea. How many innocent people would die in such a strike? How do you think the terrorists would respond to this?

Has he gone senile already? As much as I wish he would just shut up, I'm actually beginning to enjoy reading his ludicrous statements on the ticker every morning. Goes well with my coffee.

Terrorist does not have any religion or any country. Attacing Mecca means you attacking some other country. please dont try to get these kinds of cheap publicity. Does not look like you are presdental canditate. You talking like a high school kid election candidate

Ms. America you should be ashamed, imploded towers? You should join Tancredo in his white coated rubber room.

While Tancredo's solution may be subject to criticism,the fact that it has been posited by a presidential candidate I believe indicates tha there is an audience for that type of response.The negative comments here do not address the problem which is addressed by TANCREDO'S proposal which is the perceived lack of opposition by the Muslim community to the actions of the islamic terrorists who commit atrocities in th ename of ISLAM.It is sheer folly to believe that that the US would not respond massively to any type of nuclear or biological attack in this country especially to the extent such an attack were celebrated in Muslim countries as publicized by Al Jazeera.Does anyone seriously believe that such an attack would not be celebrated by a sizable portion of Pakistanis?
People are getting fed up witht he lack of aggressive action being taken.Amwerican troops are being killed in Afghanistan by TALIBAN who cross back into Pakistan when being pursued and Musharraf does nothing or is unable to do anything.A nation is not sovereign if it cedes the right to commit war to a particular area of its country that it cant control.Would we tolerate invasions from tijuana becuase the MEXICAN GOVERNMENT cant control that area? Is there a diifernce between an afghan government controlled by the Taliban that allowed Bin Llden to conduct 9/11 and a Pakistani government that cant prevent Bin Lladen from attempting another 9/11? The answer is a resounding "no".Anyone out there who believes that any politician in this country that did not respond to a terrorist attack conceived from Pakistan is whistling Dixie.I think oBAMA scored a lot of points with what he said and frankly he should call on to the carpet all of those who have accused him of being naive for what he said.Ask Clinto nad Mccain what they would do if attacked from elements in Pakistan that the government there chooses not to confront.Musharraf is no different that the Saudis who funded the terrorists as long as their attacks were not in Saudi Arabia.it was only when they attacked inside Saudi Arabia that they have taken any action at all;and when the become concerned about stopping them,they will strikew a simialr deal to MUSHARRAF….Confine your attacks tot outside Saudi Arabia and we will turn a blind eye to oyur activities.In such a circumstance should the preotector of the holy sites of Islam get a free pass?In such a circumstance they should be told in no uncertain terms that the price of their terrorist tolerance will be the destruction of IISLAM'S religious sites and it should be publicly announced to the Muslim world exactly what the consequences will be of Saudi passivity.

This is madness. So if some radical Catholics act up, should we go bomb the The Vatican?

[...] Yesterday, this twerp suggested that America should nuke Mecca and Medina to retaliate against Muslim terrorists – read it here. Today, he said that if there’s anyone who disagrees with his notion, that person is not fit to become the president of the United States – read this one here. [...]

I like the way he thinks. Muslims would not hesitate to bomb anyone else's holy site, indeed would not consider them holy. I like this guy.

He is a sick dog of LUCIFER.

I just wanted to say that all you people should know that if you do not become a muslim and join islam when asked to convert to their religion you are supposed to be killed by them and that means all muslims it is part of their beleifs

Of course this level of threat might scare some radical muslims away from a hit on more US interests BUT if we did strike against their holy sites you can bet your bottom dollar that the number of radical muslims would increase 1 billion fold. Bad idea.

Tom Tancredo is right.

Muslim fanatics shall know that the USA will nuke Mecca if they attack just once more our country. And Great-Britain should clearly exclaim the same.

As for "Muslims are good people", we shall not forget that Muslims have killed more than 6 million innocent people since 1970 (2 million Hindus in India, 2 million Black Christians and animists in South Soudan in the 80's and 90's, 1 million gassed and slaughtered by Saddam Hussein's regime, and thousand of Copts in Egypt, of Black Christians in Nigeria, of Asian Christians in Malaysia and Thailand and Philippines and so on).

It's about time non-Muslims start to defend themselves, as moderate Muslims have never done anything to fight extremist Muslims.

Last time I checked Tancredo ~ this administration (ESP> our State Department) are more supported by the American people.

What are you going to do this time?
Send a bucket of carrots to Condi? Give me a break. Tancredo was a one hit-half-wonder…. Immigration.

Hey Joe in NJ,

It's funny you should bring up the Geneva conventions. What Tancredo is suggestion is a DIRECT violation of Part II of the Fourth Geneva convention, ratified by the United States in 1955. Last time I checked Al Qaeda was not a signitory of the Geneva Conventions.

Why should our enemies wage war under OUR terms, when people like you dont want to live up to our own commitments as set forth under international law?

Mr. Tancredo clearly does not realize that many Americans are also Muslims. And they vote, too.

I agree with Tancredo. I think Great Britain could have solved their problems with the IRA in Northern Ireland much more quickly had they only had the guts to bomb the Vatican. Likewise, in response to Eric Rudolph, Tim McVeigh, and other fundamentalist Protestant terrorists, we should immediately bomb Liberty University and 700 Club headquarters. That'll show'em who means business in the global war on terror.

** Original posting removed by CNN for making common sense **

If the extremist Muslims are just a small percentage of a peaceful Islamic Nation - why is not the majority of Muslims calling for these terrorist to be rooted out of their religion?

I will tell you why - because they either don't want to (and earnestly desire a holy war and world domination) or they are held captive in their own religion.

When Congressman Tancredo’s retaliatory logic is applied to another faith, it is totally irrelevant. "What if a Catholic person was a terrorist? Would we bomb the Vatican?" Catholic Priests were found to have molested hundreds of children and the church was held accountable. When radical Christians were targeting abortion clinics, those extremist were brought to justice.

Putting creditable threats to sacred Muslim holy sites will hopefully bring their own religious members to deal with the terrorist. Trust me, there are Muslims all around the world that know where the terrorist are and could provide the information to the proper authorities (not just the United States). My surmise is they don't want to, primarily because their faith and beliefs says that all infidels (That mean's all non-Muslims - are you listening liberals?) must convert to Islam or die by the sword.

I suggest you order a Quran on Amazon.com and pick a new, really cool Muslim name or realize they will kill you, your spouse and all your children because you are not of their faith. (Regardless of what you think or feel).

This is the way they believe - their faith defies our logic. Either deal with them in terms they understand, or face their judgment - Conversion or Death - Your Choice.

Before we retaliate we should be sure who is responsible we still think that foriegn parties brought down the twin towers when it has been proven that they were demolished from within the planes were just a prop in a play

Posted By Dale Nams Rochester New York : August 5, 2007 12:10 pm

where is this "proof"?

Yeah, and if a Catholic attacks us we should blow up the Vatican. That’ll show ‘em!
This fringe candidate is clearly so desperate for attention that he’s reaching for outrageous things to say
even knowing that they make no sense. Seems to be working for him . . .

Posted By Jeff C, San Francisco : August 5, 2007 11:58 am

when the cathlocs start to behead people then yes

Muslims are not our enemy. Extremism like Osama Bin Laden, and Tom Tancredo is the enemy. Attacking Mecca does not strike back at those who attack us, it strikes over a billion decent Muslims who are not terrorists. Muslims are good people, clearly Tom Tancredo has never gotten to know any of them.

Posted By Sam, Portland OR : August 5, 2007 12:49 pm

a billion muslims and their all "decent"

most of the hijackers were from saudia araibia,their wahbinism islam is the hate that was preached too them,nobady wants to know why our president is seen holding hands with the prince of the country that hates us?the bushies are in his pocket.why are they allowed to build mosque's preachin hate for us?in our own country?

I agree with Tom Tancredo, he's a great American for defending the our homeland against muslims, marxist and liberals. We should actually make an example out of China and Iran to prove to the rest of this heathen world that America means business.

God Bless America!

Tom is just an erroneously created human, who does not know that the Mecca, which was built by Abraham(peace be upon him), the ancestor of all three religios, Christianity, Islam and Judiasm, is the house of God who has preserved it for thousands of years despite the evil intention and efforts of so many Toms who themselves were destroyed in the past. God has the well capable of preserving his house again. So we don't have to wory about these idiots. They will face their logical fate.

How can anyone criticize this guy. Finally someone that knows how to deal with these murderers. I do not like the idea that our government spends billions of dollars fighting terrorism only to acknowledge that it will happen again only to have more innocent lives slaughtered while they play the costly childish games. Tancredo has my vote and I'm spreading the word. How time heals all wounds. Does anyone remember 911

Islam against the world get use to it the war is on.
They will not stop !!!! And there is away to stop it. It will take time and
its not good.
And it starts with Mecca and Medina.
I hate it. But no peace in the future.

"International humanitarian law (IHL), also known as the law of war, the laws and customs of war or the law of armed conflict, is the legal corpus "comprised of the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Conventions, as well as subsequent treaties, case law, and customary international law."[1] It defines the conduct and responsibilities of belligerent nations, neutral nations and individuals engaged in warfare, in relation to each other and to protected persons, usually meaning civilians.

The law is mandatory for nations bound by the appropriate treaties. There are also other customary unwritten rules of war, many of which were explored at the Nuremberg War Trials. By extension, they also define both the permissive rights of these powers as well as prohibitions on their conduct when dealing with irregular forces and non-signatories." (Wikipedia, 2007)

"The LOAC specifically describes objects that shall not be the targets of a direct attack. Reflecting the rule that military operations must be directed at military objectives, objects normally dedicated to peaceful purposes enjoy a general immunity from direct attack. Specific protection applies to medical units or establishments; transports of wounded and sick personnel; military and civilian hospital ships; safety zones established under the Geneva Conventions; and religious, cultural, and charitable buildings, monuments, and POW camps. However, if these objects are used for military purposes, they lose their immunity. If these protected objects are located near lawful military objectives (which LOAC prohibits), they may suffer collateral damage when the nearby military objectives are lawfully engaged." (About, 2007)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_armed_conflict

http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/wars/a/loac_3.htm

In regards to Joe's comment on the funding and harboring of terrorists, would you propose that we hold ourselves responsible for everything that has happened to us?? Look up some history and you'll find that the US has spent a great deal of money arming the Taliban, because they got rid of the russians!

I am glad that most of the commenters on this post think this guy is a nutjob, unfortuately I worry about the people who agree with him, and I wish that each of those people could broaden their horizons a bit and realize just how connected the world is, and just how like us everyone else is. Get to know someone from another country… a lot of times they're nicer and more welcoming than many Americans are.

How depressing! How could Mr. Tancredo have made such a dubious suggestion?

I think he should stop his campaign and go back to school because he needs to learn (amongst others):
1. Georgraphy (he seems does not know where Mecca and Medina are);
2. Diplomacy (what kind of diplomacy does he subscribe to?);
3. Logic and Common sense (How could you deter terrorism with such an out of mind threat?);
4. Ethics (self-explanatory)
5. Domestic politics (He does not give an impression that he even knows how many American muslims there are!)

Wake up, Mr. Tancredo! Americans need a more sophisticated candidate president and barbarian approach does go too far.

So why doesn't he start at home by evicting Muslim residents from Colorado, thereby making Colorado a Muslim-free US state?

People like this should be immediately taken to a mental health facility. In this age of nuclear weapons, the entire fate of the human species (yes, only us. Most other life on this Earth will very probably continue) hangs by a tenuous thread, and nutjobs like this threaten us, our children and grandchildren and whatever the human race and the Christian Faith stand for.

We should ask ourselves a simple question: Should not the governments an d those who make conspicuous public displays of their devotion to Christianity follow what is certainly among the central tenets of the faith?
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." If this cannot be done, then I think politicians who are practitioners of such religions ought to confess and admit that they are failed Christians or aspirant Christians, but not full-fledged, unqualified, unhyphenated Christians.

The world will be a much better place without people like him in position of power.

It is unfortunate that so many of share such narrow perspectives. When people stop thinking with their hearts, and start thinking with their brains (which is what I believe God intended), we can safeguard this tiny planet that we call home, and create a peaceful environment for future generations.

What happened to human decency when someone is willing to stoop to the level of terrorists? Tancredo is exactly what we do not need in our elected officials. I cannot believe anyone would agree with this nonsense. We deserve leaders that will respect a person’s faith and uphold the Constitution, including freedom of religion. Tancredo and his followers need to get educated about other religions and international laws to avoid making the same mistakes history has already taught us. Engaging sovereign areas does not achieve successful determents, and you do not have to go back that far to find proof.

This guy is an absolute genius!

Let's turn the ENTIRE Muslim community against us, thus playing right into Al-Queda's hands! Brilliant! And, hell, while we're at it, we might as well blow up mosques in the United States, too! That'll learn those evil Islamic fundamentalists!

Howmany Bullets did Gandhi fire to get freedom for India from British?

This is probably one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. What a fabulous way to deter terrorists and show the world that the United States is against terrorism-commit it ourselves. If we did do this, what would separate us from the terrorists?

It is naive and just plain ignorant to believe to lump all Muslims as terrorists and ignore the fact that millions of civilians would be injured. Most of these terrorists who claim to be Muslims are extremeists (which exist in all religions). To label a religion as "terrorists" is highly unintelligent and perhaps this man needs to take Religion 101 and study the basics of Islam before he threatens to destroy holy sites.

Perhaps if the next terrorism attack is committed by a Catholic, we should hold the Pope hostage-that's a sure way to teach them a lesson.

Although this man has almost no realistic chance of becoming President, it is sad and embarassing that he is defending his words and thoughts and not apologizing to not only the Muslims around the world, but to his fellow citizens for making the Unite States look as narrow minded as we are so often perceived.

Rep Tancredo is insane. Attacking Muslim holy sites would justify everything the terrorist organizations have said about America. It would make us at "war" with the Muslim religion and that is far from the truth. Muslim people are a wonderful people and we are only at "war" with a very small minority who are using religion as a shield to terrorize people of other nations.
Rep Tancredo should be ashamed of his statements and he certainly does not represent the best interests of the United States and other democratic countries.

Enemy combatants that do not abide by the Geneva Conventions and those that harbor them should not be afforded protection under its bylaws. Saudi Arabia funds terrorism and educates its citizens with anti-western rhetoric, so they should be held partially responsible for the situation that America is currently in if they do not renounce their pro-terrorist ways.

Will someone please call the men in the whitecoats for this man before he hurts himself, or worse, someone else!

Regarding the nuclear threat to Mecca, et. al.:

Does anybody really think that terrorists are going to be deterred by the prospect of losing some monuments and the death of millions of innocent muslims?

This is not the time for recycled cold war tactics like MAD. We are not dealing with reasonable people and no matter what anybody would like to say, the Soviets were quite reasonable enough to avoid annihilation.

Shallow, shallower, shallowest.

I'm ashamed that the U.S. has idiots that have no common sense as their leaders. This makes no sense! Forget Al-Quida, the U.S. would have to worry about the whole world if that happened. Terrorism is not another country's fault. It's not a religions fault. It's crazy people who have a crazy view of their idea's and use their religion to gain support.

Terrorist Tancredo should be removed from office.

Should we also blow up places in Britain because of that Richard shoe bomber wannabe? Outrageous. Tancredo's comments show that he has reached his level of imcompetence.

On the other comment, those towers sure looked imploded, but we'll never know the whole truth.

Tom,
I am with you on this one! I don't think al Qaeda would be so anxious to do damage to the US if they knew we would blow up their holy sites. We play fair and they don't, that has been the problem from the beginning.
Paula

I guess when Maronite Catholic Phalangists butchered 2,000 Palestinian Muslims in Sabra and Shatila, the perfect revenge would be to bomb the Vatican now?

What the hell? His district doesn't seem to be the hillbilly type, but I guess looks can be deceiving.

He's all talk, even Jeb Bush hates him.

I am not a person who believes in war, but to those who are appointed to fight the enemy, then this comment to blow up Mecca and all the muslim holy sites is right on!
Maybe they would realize that the world is not going to sit by and be taken over by crazy muslims who want to kill all Christians and rule the world.

Tancredo is absolutely psycho.

What happened to the first 1000 comments ?? CNN ???

Sam from Portland, Just wanted to say how much such a comment you made is appreciated. I just wish every american get to understand like you, that muslims are not the enemy

For once, someone in America understands the gravity of their situation. Islamic terrorist attacks against America is prejudiced on their christian heritage. But even if 'GOD' is removed from their constitution and pledge today, the attacks will not stop. A weak America is a threat to world peace and the beginning of the end the world order as we know it today.

Dont we have Psychiatrist doctors anymore in america 'cos definately this guy is mentally sick…

it is worrisome that this kind of person even has the opportunity to contest for presidency in america - a country highly respected for some kinda values….

Mr. Tancredo should be flogged in the public square for making such inflammatory remarks. Members of the house should vote to admonish his words. The state department should apologize to the Muslim community. The people that attacked our country are not the same ones that worship at these sites.

Poor Tancreepo. He just doesn't have anything else going for him. Any publicity is good publicity!

Dale from NY. Don't be an idiot. The Trade Center was brought down by the attacking planes and nothing other than that has been even remotely proven. Check out the detailed computer recreation of the entire event on YouTube.

Why do they let this man out of his cage? Everytime he opens his mouth, he just proves what a flaming idiot he is. All he is doing is advocating terrorism, he seems to think it is ok if we're the ones doing it. Did the attack on the twin towers deter US from our warmongering in the Middle east? No, it had the exact opposite effect.

This guy is a complete embarassment and his statements of collective guilt and punishment would make Hitler proud.

Wow! Jihadists are participating in what they believe is a holy war against us, and now they can point to a comment like this, from a presidential candidate and member of the United States Congress, to justify themselves even further. Way to go Tom!

AND, should we ever actually threaten or, God forbid, carry through with something like that, we'd be seeing even more radical islamists than ever before. It would be a disaster not to mention just plain wrong.

This is absolutely NUTS!!

If the extremist Muslims are just a small percentage of a peaceful Islamic Nation - why is not the majority of Muslims calling for these terrorist to be rooted out of their religion?

I will tell you why - because they either don't want to (and earnestly desire a holy war and world domination) or they are held captive in their own religion.

When Congressman Tancredo’s retaliatory logic is applied to another faith, it is totally irrelevant. "What if a Catholic person was a terrorist? Would we bomb the Vatican?" Catholic Priests were found to have molested hundreds of children and the church was held accountable. When radical Christians were targeting abortion clinics, those extremist were brought to justice.

Putting creditable threats to sacred Muslim holy sites will hopefully bring their own religious members to deal with the terrorist. Trust me, there are Muslims all around the world that know where the terrorist are and could provide the information to the proper authorities (not just the United States). My surmise is they don't want to, primarily because their faith and beliefs says that all infidels (That mean's all non-Muslims - are you listening liberals?) must convert to Islam or die by the sword.

I suggest you order a Quran on Amazon.com and pick a new, really cool Muslim name or realize they will kill you, your spouse and all your children because you are not of their faith. (Regardless of what you think or feel).

This is the way they believe - their faith defies our logic. Either deal with them in terms they understand, or face their judgment - Conversation or Death - Your Choice.

Keep believing that Muslims are peaceful, good people and keep granting them constitutional rights that are denied most Christian Americans. Good luck espousing liberal lunacy when Americans are living under Shari ah law.

THis just shows how stupid the GOP is becoming the party of Bigots and idiots. If the RepublicNS HAD ANY BRAINS THEY WOULD CONDEMN AND ASK THIS NUT JOB TO LEAVE THE PARTY. The voters will punish the GOP in 08 like never before. America's temper is boiling and it will reach the limit in o8 its time for regime change. Just to make sure everyone understands if we listen to this idiot we will be turning the number of extremeist from less than 1 million to 2 billion. So MUCH FOR WINNING THE HEARTSAND MINDS OF THE PEOPLE!!!

True Psychosis and Extremism never gives up even in the face of overwhelming Normalcy and Human Dignity.

This guy needs an involuntary psychiatric hospitalization!

Somebody call a Judge 911!!!

Muslims are not our enemy. Extremism like Osama Bin Laden, and Tom Tancredo is the enemy. Attacking Mecca does not strike back at those who attack us, it strikes over a billion decent Muslims who are not terrorists. Muslims are good people, clearly Tom Tancredo has never gotten to know any of them.

Muslims are not our enemy. Extremism like Osama Bin Laden and Tom Tancredo is the enemy. If we are attacked, we should attack those who attacked us, not the over 1 billion decent Muslims in the world.

Hey Colorado, get this terrorist out of office please. Thanks.

Before we retaliate we should be sure who is responsible we still think that foriegn parties brought down the twin towers when it has been proven that they were demolished from within the planes were just a prop in a play

This nut job will never win, so we are better off just ignoring him

Tancredo's idea is not at all absurd. Al Quaeda bombed our symblic heart on 9/11. They also destroyed ancient Budhist sacred places wantonly… and they even destroy their own mosques. So why not hit them where it hurts?

Yeah, and if a Catholic attacks us we should blow up the Vatican. That'll show 'em!
This fringe candidate is clearly so desperate for attention that he's reaching for outrageous things to say
even knowing that they make no sense. Seems to be working for him . . .

Wow… someone that might conceivably be a worse President than the one we have. Can America strike out any worse?

Dumb & Dumber
Why the holy icons? Why not the Saudi palaces? After all the number of terrorist attacks financed by the Saudi family is well documented. Oh yeah what was I thinking we just sold them $20B of weapons. I guess at least we'll know where the next terrorits weapons come from, the Bush White House!

Never mind what COUNTRY the "holy sites " are in?>

So if we were dealing with fundamentalist Christian extremists in some country, we should bomb Bethlehem or Jerusalem?

Maybe all Muslim countries are the same to this nut!