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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 09:38 AM
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Bigger sins than offending (More Tancredo hate rant)
By now, many people in America - and likely around the world - are familiar with my statements regarding a possible response to a nuclear attack on U.S. cities by fundamentalist Islamic terrorists.

Without question, my comments have prompted strong reactions from many quarters, but they have also served to start a national dialogue about what options we have to deter al-Qaeda and other would-be Islamic terrorists.

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.

Few can argue that our current approach to this war has deterred fundamentalists from killing Westerners - nor has it prompted "moderate" Muslims and leaders of Muslim countries to do what is necessary to crack down on the extremists in their midst who perpetuate these grisly crimes.

That being the case, perhaps the civilized world must intensify its approach.

http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2880546
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Tancredo remains clueless. How these people even get elected to office is beyond me.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 09:53 AM
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1. Is this because the government knows that there are twenty...
...or more nuclear suitcase bombs in the U.S. just waiting to get into the hands of U.S. terrorists whether they are Muslim or the domestic variety.

Here is link that shows what these things look like:

http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/suitcase-nuclear.htm

...and here is the story as reported on George Noory's show Coast to Coast when his he had on Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network:

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/04/21.html
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 10:20 AM
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4. the only suitcase nukes are in the US government's hands
If nukes go off, it's BushCo creating an excuse for martial law.
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 09:59 AM
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2. the freeps
are probably eating this up.

How can people be so STUPID??????
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 10:13 AM
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3. Nothing worse than an idiot who thinks he's not.
It must be contagious within the Repugs.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 10:29 AM
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5. only knuckle draggers think a nuke response would end anything
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