Interestingly, I think Bill Clinton’s move may backfire. Another poster here suggested that it may make a new generation take another look at Waco and the Clintons’ part in it, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. The Waco people were nuts and are easy to villify, so they don’t make sympathetic victims and I don’t think most people are going to feel any compelling reason to look further.
However, the OKC bombing was so laden with inconsistencies from the very start that I think it actually took a little doing on the part of the Clintons’ to get the story to go away. There is abundant known circumstantial evidence that McVeigh was not the only one involved. This ranges from the mysterious John Doe No. 3 and reports of ME individuals fleeing the scene to the presence of Nichols in the Philippines at the location of a known explosives-using Muslim terrorist leader whose home later blew up, and there is probably more than circumstantial evidence and more than is known to the public right now.
McVeigh was clearly crazy and dangerous, but the idea that he was capable of doing this with just the support of his not very bright follower, Nichols, and no more knowledgeable outside support, if only for logistics, is simply ridiculous. I think that if this case is revived in the public memory and a new generation of researchers is triggered, it could be very bad for the Clintons and their Muslim supporters.
So I think this was an error on Bill Clinton’s part and he overplayed his hand trying to stir up hatred and fear of the Tea Party. As such, I expect it to disappear again very quickly, because the Clintons are always very adept at simply shuffling their errors out of sight.
I wonder why you say this. Certainly they were vilified in the press. But if you watch Waco - Rules of Engagement, you will see videos of the Davidians themselves speaking. They may have had some religious beliefs that I do not share, but they definitely did not seem nuts to me.
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