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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Depends on how long he lasts. Even death does not disqualify a Democrat from running for office.
If you watch that documentary I posted above and end up believing that federal agents were shooting at people trying to escape the burning complex, it tends to cast doubt over the entire operation. We only know what the FBI spokesmen working under orders from Clinton and Reno told us.
And if the Holder-Danforth investigation was a cover-up...??
You hit that ball out of the park.
100% Hillary’s operation.
The commander of the 1st Cavalry forces involved was...Gen. Wesley Clark.
Sorry, I'm not buying what you're selling. Using your axiom, child molesters - like NAMBlA - could set up shop in a fortified location, arm themselves to the teeth and molest children at their will, knowing that authorities aren't eventually going to put a forceful end to it.
Koresh had installed fortified bunkers, and armed himself aggressively and openly and frequently claimed (on tape) that he had the means to repel the Bradleys that had been dispatched to the scene. Should the FBI not taken him at his word? Of course they should. So, they upgraded to Abrams (disarmed Abrams), that were much more armor-capable than the Bradleys.
Again, if this had been a Muslim compound, NO ONE would have any problems with the tactics, nor the outcome.
Freepers have known this kind of crap for a long time. Just ask Alamo-Girl.
Whatever you want to believe about the Clintons...it is a lot worse than you think.
They were wrong. Bill Clinton was in office and Janet Reno was attorney general. They may be confusing Ruby Ridge with Waco. GHW Bush was in office then but Reno wasn’t attorney general.
Good grief. Get a grip. Since 9/11 there have been THOUSANDS of search warrants executed on all manner of Muslim encampment - apartments, homes, charities and even dozens and dozens of Mosques - almost all without incident.
The feds had a properly executed search warrant for the compound. What was the government to do, ignore the warrant and let the Davidians just go about their business?
He did.
And planes!! Stay off the planes!
Well then did the investigators want to talk again? Some reason they went back to the hut and tried to talk to the people. I think that one thing they thought was that Koresh had sex with some of the little ones. That alone should have been investigated. Aren’t they the group with the purple blankets and drank some drink and killed themselves. Weren’t they a cult???
No one knows for sure that this happened. They only have the medias word about that. They were totally wrong about Ruby Ridge and Elian Gonzalas. I'd say they were wrong about Koresh, too.
Engineers have proved? What engineers? Where? Are they the same engineers that proved beyond a reasonable doubt that two wide-body aircraft, carrying tons of fuel and traveling at 500+ mph couldn't bring down a skyscrapper?
It's crazy conspiracy gibberish - like you just posted - that gives conservatives a bad name. It's ridiculous.
What I always wondered is why they simply didn’t arrest him when he left the compound to go grocery shopping. I assume they never thought he was crazy enough to torch himself and the children. Most have the self-preservation gene. Apparently, Koresh didn’t get that one.
..uh, no, you can’t bring down a big building that way, . . . alone.
Fixed it for ya.
How about the names of the traitors in this Regime who are out to destroy our country?
There’s always a witness to every massacre. When is the truth going to be exposed so this horror story ends?
First of all, if you go to the link it states:
While there may be a link between Clinton and the Oklahoma City bombing, I would hardly blame the actions of a psychopath on any one individual or political party.
So apparently the author does agree with you. However, it must be noted that McVeigh clearly admitted that the Waco massacre and Ruby Ridge were his motivation:
Defiant to the end, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh says he is sorry 168 people died at his hands, but insists the blame rests on a U.S. government bent on bullying its citizens.And as Dick Morris said:"I am sorry these people had to lose their lives," McVeigh wrote in a series of recent letters to be quoted today in The Buffalo News, the day before his execution. "But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be."
In the letters to his hometown paper, McVeigh reiterated that what he did was necessary to defend the personal freedom of all Americans and exact revenge for the disastrous government raids at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas. The bombing, he wrote, was "a legit tactic" in a war against what he considers an out-of-control federal government.
That the attack on the Federal Office Building took place on the anniversary of the Waco raid underscores the connection.It wasn't "right wing talk radio" as Clinton claimed that motivated McVeigh, it was clearly Clinton's actions, he just used folks such as Rush as a scapegoat.
And finally, your analogy is sorely lacking...Rush hasn't ordered a massacre that included women and children, nor does he have the power to. Personally, I think Rush is overrated and his voice is annoying ; )
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