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To: Southack
Well, sorry I responded. Just doesn't seem to add up. Even if clinton says so, he didn't win in '96 because of this incident or his blathering about the VRWC. He won because Bob Dole is a turkey.
419 posted on 10/24/2001 8:31:27 PM PDT by ninenot
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To: ninenot
"Even if clinton says so, he didn't win in '96 because of this incident or his blathering about the VRWC. He won because Bob Dole is a turkey."

That was never at issue. I simply showed why he did what he did and what motivated him, not what influenced the nation (or in what manner).

The assault on Waco was a gun control commercial. It was supposed to show how a bunch of religious nuts were hoarding guns and were obviously "up to no good." It just didn't work out like it was planned. The locals all knew that Koresh went target shooting with the sheriff and jogging outside the compound on a regular basis. That knowledge gradually destroyed the Clinton/Reno claim that a raid was mandatory to capture Koresh. Other bogus BATF claims, such as the "meth lab" inside the compound, also eroded the credibility of the official story.

Rather than a gun control commercial, Clinton was hit with a public relations nightmare.

The OKC bombing was on the anniversary of the final Waco raid. By pinning the blame on a domestic right wing nut, Clinton could get his anti-terrorism bill passed (it had just been submitted to Congress too, interestingly enough). Had the focus been allowed to shift to a Middle-Eastern connection, then the public reaction would have been more along the lines of what we saw after 9/11/2001, when Americans bought personal firearms in record numbers and pushed a bill to roll back gun control measures against arming pilots (ie., not the direction that the Socialists in Clinton's admin wanted to go).

427 posted on 10/24/2001 11:53:18 PM PDT by Southack
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