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To: YOUGOTIT
I firmly believe that the play military civilians set the place on fire and killed the children with NO regrets when they did NOT have to do it and could have made the arrest in town like they should have done but wanted to play military.

Sure, ignore the fact that the Davidians shot and killed four officers and wounded 16 others that tried to serve a warrant to arrest their leader.

Ignore that the FBI tried for days to get them to surrender before trying to drive them out.

Ignore that the FBI breached the compound in a number of places to give the people inside a chance to get out.

Instead you just decide, basically based on nothing, that the evil government intentionally burned to death all those people including women and children, despite all their efforts to try and get them to leave safely.

The Davidians could have allowed the women and children to safely leave before the situation which they escalated, escalated again. They instead chose to try and use those women and children as a shield against the consequences of their own actions. They hid behind them.

It's a horrible tragedy that innocent people died in the raid. However, the Davidians were apparently more than willing to risk the lives of those innocent people. They were murderous cowards that deserve their current home in the fiery pit of hell.

But hey, why place blame on the Davidians when you can do everything in your power to ignore the facts and come op with some way with your limited knowledge of the facts, that you think the government should have done things differently.

Maybe they didn't arrest him in town because they had a warrant to search the compound as well, and why have two risky operations instead of one? It's not like they weren't still going to have to serve a warrant at the compound even if the arrested Koresh while he was in town. And in town it would be easier for him to get away, and there would have been people around that were in no way related to the actions of Koresh that would have been put in danger.

42 posted on 04/18/2008 1:09:01 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: untrained skeptic

And besides, they were just following orders.


47 posted on 04/18/2008 1:15:10 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: untrained skeptic
"Sure, ignore the fact that the Davidians shot and killed four officers and wounded 16 others that tried to serve a warrant to arrest their leader....."

You might want to review some of this {edited} video. Pay attention between 1:30 and 6:08.

link

111 posted on 04/18/2008 4:50:18 PM PDT by labette
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