Re: (original) One billion Muslims to turn into suicide bombers if Makkah, Madina are
Does anyone else think this is childish?
Tancredo, who is a marginal candidate running essentially on the "anti-immigrant" platform, and isn't going to win anything (or even come remotely close to winning), was quoted as saying the US should use the threat of an attack on Medina to deter a
nuclear terror attack on the US. There has already been a thread on this. He is a Congressman, one of over
400 in the House of Representatives. He is not in charge of anything (no chairmanships). He is marginalized by his own party. The House is only half of the Congress, the Senate is more cautious beacuse Senators have to appeal to every voter in their State. The Congress does NOT make foreign policy. The President is Commander in Chief. This is much ado about nothing. A nobody in the US makes a brash statemtent to get domestic attention. It is taken out of context and translated and pretty soon we have a bunch of hotheads threatening 1 billion suicide bombers.
It is just stupid.
BTW, someone here claimed a second candidate sadi the same thing. I think they mean Obama. That is not what he said. He said he might order an attack on the tribal areas in Pakistan to get OBL if he were Prez. He isn't going to win either.

Voters are finding out he is bit vacuous and given to cliches. His advisors have told he needs to sound tougher on terror. He is in the uneviable position of running against a woman (Hillary Clinton) with bigger huevos than his. The guy is losing badly.
Now, if Hillary Clinton or Giuliani or Fred Thompson or George Bush says they are going to nuke Mecca...then you should pay attention.
BTW, 1 billion suicde bombers would need at least 10 billion pounds of explosives (for vests) That is about 5 Billion kg of explosive. A 10 x 10 x 10 cm cube of explosives would weight about 1kg, so if you line them up end to end, it would stretch 500 million meters, or about 500,000 km. That is a lot of explosvies.
If they all tried to buy cheap airline tickets that would be about $ 200 billion dollars.
If they tried to build 1 Billion car bombs that would raise the explosive need by a factor of 50, so the line of explosives would be 2,500,000 km

Anybody know how far away the moon is?
The cars to make a a billion car bombs would be worth at least
$ 1 Trillion and that is without the car insurance

They would need $10 Billion galllons of gasoline :happy: