the most recent debacle come from statements made by Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo.
On July 15 during a radio interview on WFLA-AM he urged the US to "take out [Muslim] holy sites." They asked if he meant Mecca and he said, "Yeah."
Later on July 22 on CNN the AAI president told the congressman, "My fear is that your words have consequences, and they're and incitement."
To which this asshole responds, "I hope so. I hope they have consequences. I hope people will talk about it, it's fine. So what if it plays badly? I am not here to make sure that the spin on what I say works out well, whether it's in my own district or around the world."
I mean at least Pat Robertson had the decency to backpedal and try to make it seem as if the euphemism "take them out" only meant like, take them to a movie, or to the zoo...
But this dickweed from Colorado knows no shame and makes it so much worse. He's supposed to be a congressman for heaven's sake, can we have a little role modeling? What the hell is the rest of the world supposed to think? We have a hard enough time combating world opinion in the wake of our government refusing to join things like G8 and the Kyoto Protocols without shits like this guys simply proving to everyone how retarded and backwater we are.
Imagine for a moment that an Islamic leader of an Arabic country said nearly the same thing? That say, India should bomb, oh I dunno... Atlanta or something? We'd be up in arms before the broadcast was finished. Meanwhile we expect the Arab dogs to just sit there and take it cause we can say whatever we want cause this here's "Amuricuh."
Well here's Tommy's info if you want to vent to him directly or post on his blog or sign him up for adds or something...Blog URL: http://tancredo.house.gov/press/press_blog.shtml
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