I learned about waco tonight..

[Nielsio]

..and I'm absolutely apalled.


Part I
http://video.google.com/url?docid=4298137966377572665

Part II
http://video.google.com/url?docid=-1755692679103175934


I'm not sure what to be more disgusted with. The actions of the faceless military might or the lies and coverup afterwards.


(I searched and found no OP about this subject)

[NeBlis]

If this is really the first time you learned about Waco I will eat my shoe.

[Nielsio]

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Haha.


No, really. I didn't know any specifics. I only had a very vague idea and knew it was something gone wrong. That's it.

[4 High]

Cliff notes? I also knew something wrong happened, but don't know any real details. How unbiased are these videos?

[Exsubmariner]

Links broken.

[Richard Tanner]

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Cliff notes? I also knew something wrong happened, but don't know any real details. How unbiased are these videos?

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Group has a compound in Waco, TX. Feds move in to serve warrents and raid (on pretty shaky grounds if I remember correctly) and a clusterf*ck insues. Chain of command is totally FUBAR and the soldiers there act inappropriatly (big suprise I know).

In the end, David Koresh (group's messiah/leader) and his group were doing plenty of illegal things, but the whole mess was a black eye for the ATF and Justice department because it was handled so poorly.

Cody

[BCPVP]

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If this is really the first time you learned about Waco I will eat my shoe.

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Nielso lives in Europe, IIRC. Understandable that he wouldn't know about Waco.

[Nielsio]

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Links broken.

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Oops.

These should work:


I
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...37966377572665

II
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...92679103175934

[pokerbobo]

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If this is really the first time you learned about Waco I will eat my shoe.

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Haha.


No, really. I didn't know any specifics. I only had a very vague idea and knew it was something gone wrong. That's it.

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This was one of Clinton's first "the buck stops down the hall events" He left Reno swingin in the wind on this one.

[AlexM]

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Cliff notes? I also knew something wrong happened, but don't know any real details. How unbiased are these videos?

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I believe the South Park "meteor shower party" episode about covers it. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]