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Dick Morris: Bill Clinton Personally Orchestrated the 1993 Waco, Texas Tragedy
Canada Free Press ^ | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 | Fred Dardick

Posted on 04/20/2010 11:26:05 AM PDT by FredDardick

It looks like somebody is going to have to update the Waco Siege page on Wikipedia. Apparently the whitewashed history that former President Bill Clinton would like us to believe regarding the 1993 federal assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, is missing important details regarding his own personal involvement.

In response to Bill Clinton’s highly publicized linking of the Tea Party movement to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in an op-ed piece for the New York Times, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris disclosed on Monday that it was Clinton himself, and not Attorney General Janet Reno, as Americans have been led to believe for the past 17 years, who called the shots during the 1993 botched invasion that led to the death of seventy-six people.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintontruthfile; conspiracytheory; democrats; dickmorris; doj; liberalfascism; liberalhate; oklahoma; reno; waco; wacoplusten
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To: UCANSEE2

Plus when all the shooting was over, no fire department was allowed on site. They put out the fires with bulldozers. Kind of hard to find any evidence once the site has been run over a few times.


101 posted on 04/20/2010 12:33:04 PM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

No doubt THIS will be heavily covered on CNN!


102 posted on 04/20/2010 12:33:09 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: big bad easter bunny

That is probably the most ridiculously formatted post, I’ve ever seen. Do actually expect someone to read that mess?


103 posted on 04/20/2010 12:33:09 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

I don’t understand your comment.

A thorough study of the Waco incident would make it clear to any thinking person that the “official” story of the event is patently false.

Koresh was a nut. He thought he was the “Lamb” of Revelation. But that is not a federal crime - yet.

The ATF was scheduled for budget hearings in March ‘93. The agency had gotten terrible publicity because of Ruby Ridge in the summer of ‘92. They wanted to stage a big raid and seize a bunch of weapons and justify their funding.

They thought the Davidians would be an easy target. They were wrong.


104 posted on 04/20/2010 12:33:51 PM PDT by karnage (worn arguments and old attitudes)
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To: bigbob
They all got away with murder.

Nobody ultimately gets away with murder. The Supreme Judge will decide.

105 posted on 04/20/2010 12:35:13 PM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (As Wichita falls so falls Wichita Falls)
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To: bigbob

I didn’t know that. Waco happened when I was 32 years old and paying attention. I could not belevie that our government would fire on their own citizens. Since witnessing that I have no illusions about what our government could do to any one of us.


106 posted on 04/20/2010 12:35:37 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: beckysueb; OldDeckHand
Koresh was mad-man, who probably institutionally molested young girls, and kept women against their will.

This was an 'unfounded assertion' made by JANET RENO, (who knows all about the subject of institutionally molesting young girls and keeping women against their will, down in Florida), in order to justify the need to RAID the compound, instead of backing off and letting Koresh come out.

107 posted on 04/20/2010 12:36:48 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: chris_bdba
"but Waco which happened during Clinton’s term in office so how could it be GWBsr fault?"

I understand we were talking about Waco and I understand it happened under Clinton. I know it was not GWBsr's fault. I was explaining how someone here said it was. Ok?

108 posted on 04/20/2010 12:36:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Those That Turn Their Swords into Plows Will Plow For Those That Don't.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Common sense should tell you there is a huge difference in the infidel hating muslims and a Christain church. Christains don’t cut off heads and teach their children to hate and kill anyone who disagrees with them. Christains don’t intend to take over the world. I don’t think Koresh had any plans of taking over the world and killing everyone who disagreed with him.


109 posted on 04/20/2010 12:37:49 PM PDT by beckysueb (January 20, 2013. When Obama becomes just a skidmark on the panties of American history.)
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To: karnage
"A thorough study of the Waco incident would make it clear to any thinking person that the “official” story of the event is patently false."

What "official" story are you referring? Did I mention "an official story"? Nope

The feds had a search warrant signed by a judge. The Davidians refused entry and made it clear that they would forcefully repel any attempt by the authorities to enter the compound.

Apparently, you want to live in a country where people can ignore law enforcement. I don't. If it's ok for the Davidians to ignore federal search warrants, it's certainly ok for Islamic extremist operating in the US to ignore those same search warrants, right?

110 posted on 04/20/2010 12:38:20 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

Sure, and I am smart enough to understand that if Koresh were detained off sight, executing a warrent peacably would be more likely. But that wouldn’t have given ATF their big media splash they so badly wanted. And I am sure you are smart enough to understand that.


111 posted on 04/20/2010 12:38:50 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: OldDeckHand
I'd even take issue with this statement. Yes, Clinton, his subordinates and officials in Texas mishandled this, and perhaps even violated federal law with respect to assets deployed to the situation. But, David Koresh is the person who is directly responsible for Waco, not Bill Clinton.

Koresh was mad-man, who probably institutionally molested young girls, and kept women against their will. The world is better off without him, it's just too bad the federal government was so fiercely incompetent that they allowed some 30 children to be killed in the process.

Sorry, I disagree with you here. I won't defend Koresh, as I also believe that he was a whack-job. However, the simple fact is that:

a) child molestation was NOT cause for the BATF to do a "no-knock" raid on the Davidians.

b) Koresh regularly went into town. If they wanted to arrest him, it could have been easily and safely done.

But then that wouldn't have generated an "exciting" news clip at the time that congressional funding of the BATF was being considered.

The simple fact is that there was NO REASON for all of those people to have been murdered (including the BATF agents killed during the initial assault). The blood was spilled due to political concerns.

Mark

112 posted on 04/20/2010 12:41:28 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: beckysueb
"Common sense should tell you there is a huge difference in the infidel hating muslims and a Christain church."

No, common sense doesn't tell me any such thing. Christians - if you want to call Korsh that, I certainly wouldn't - aren't exempt from federal laws. Perhaps that's the world you wish to live in. I don't.

Laws apply equally to everyone of every religious demonstration, race or gender. People don't get a pass because they claim to be Christian.

113 posted on 04/20/2010 12:41:53 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: MileHi
...if Koresh were detained off sight, executing a warrent peacably would be more likely. But that wouldn’t have given ATF their big media splash they so badly wanted.

Bingo! We have a winner!

114 posted on 04/20/2010 12:42:51 PM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: OldDeckHand

sorry about that, looked fine before i posted it


115 posted on 04/20/2010 12:43:04 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny (A lie can get half way around the world before the truth gets it's boots on!-Mark Twain)
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To: SkyDancer

OK sorry I did not get that from what you originally posted.


116 posted on 04/20/2010 12:43:12 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: OldDeckHand
Are you this obtuse in your real life, or is it an internet persona you've created?

The agents could have easily arrested Koresh in town. He personally lead the "defense" of the compound. This was after he told an undercover agent in his compound to leave and tell them he knew the agency was coming.

So despite knowing that their "surprise" raid was no longer a surprise, despite knowing that they were heavily armed, despite knowing that there were dozens of children present, and despite knowing that there was a nut in charge, the ATF decided to go in guns blazing anyway.

That's criminal incompetence and stupidity, but you can keep arguing how justified they were.

117 posted on 04/20/2010 12:44:54 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: MarkL
"b) Koresh regularly went into town. If they wanted to arrest him, it could have been easily and safely done."

They didn't just have an arrest warrant for Koresh, they had a search warrant for the compound.

118 posted on 04/20/2010 12:45:26 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: FredDardick

Too bad Clinton wasn’t nearly as eager to attack al-Qaeda as he was the Branch Davidians.


119 posted on 04/20/2010 12:46:01 PM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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To: skeeter

There’s a sick joke about Clinton and fingers in there somewhere . . .


120 posted on 04/20/2010 12:46:57 PM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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