That Slippery Slope...

Pre-emptive warfare, even when properly justified, is a slipperly slope... and it seems some members of congress want to plunge down it. From an action alert sent out by the ADC:

July 18, 2005, Washington, DC - In a radio interview last Thursday, July 14, Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) advocated the United States preemptively strike Mecca with nuclear weapons. The Colorado Congressman’s made his comments on the Pat Campbell Radio Show (AM 540) in response to Campbell’s statement that terrorists are seeking the means to attack the United States with a dirty bomb. Tancredo suggested that a preemptive attack on Mecca would be enough of a threat to make terrorists think twice about attacking the United States again.

There's a sound file at a site (that apparently supports this type of talk) here.

That'll make us very popular overseas, won't it?

Even if he was only speaking hypothetically...