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In <BrtIv*p+3@caleb.UUCP> jdp@caleb.UUCP Jim Pritchett writes:

>I'm not interested in defending Koresh.  However, it was totally unnecessary
>for the ATF & Co. to slaughter all those people - especially the children.
>I'm still waiting for someone to give me a good reason why they needed to
>attack the place as if it were full of armed desperados about to shoot up
>the town.  

Because it was full of armed desperados who shot up a bunch of cops and
then refused to come out?

Hell, Jim, you don't even know who attacked (it was the FBI, not the
ATF) but we're supposed to believe you have some 'inside scoop' and that
the goal was to simply "slaughter all those people"?

>They even came in with armored vehicles!  

Well, if you're patrolling near a building where people are likely to
shoot at you, you'd probably want an armored vehicle, too.  What's your
point? 

>I think that most of
>the fires were started by the gas shells - NOT the BDs as the ATF claimed.

Yes, "you think".  Contrary to all the evidence and based on nothing but
paranoia, but "you think".

Why do I find that less than credible?

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