[PapaBear3625]

What a crock! David Koresh left the compound to go into town regularly and jogged daily. Why not pick him up then rather than assault the compound with flame throwers and tanks???

They wanted a dramatic takedown to justify all their pretty SWAT gear at the upcoming budget hearings. Then some agents got killed. Once that happened, the feds could not afford the possibility that a Texas jury would decide the Branch Davidians shot the feds in self-defense.

[Fightin Whitey]

They wanted a dramatic takedown to justify all their pretty SWAT gear at the upcoming budget hearings.

Now known as "the Mueller Doctrine".