Matt Giwer (c) 1995 <4/26>
I find it strange that an issue buried in the public media for nearly two years is now front and center. For better or worse Waco is something that now going to be discussed. And the liberals are going to follow the lead of Clinton in attempting to take political advantage of it.
What they want to do is to someone other than the bombers for Waco. They are choosing to blame people who are keeping Waco alive in the public mind. What they will not admit is that Waco would not be in the public mind had it not been for the deliberate decision of Attorney General Janet Reno.
It is not obvious to the casual observer that the success of the war of independence for Texas was the responsibility of those who remembered the Alamo. It is obvious that General Santa Ana had a hand in it some place.
If Waco is to be called the cause of the bombing then is it those who remember Waco or those who did Waco that are the cause? If there is to be blame then who is to blame? Those who point out what prosecution witnesses have said happened while under oath or those who authorized those people do what they did?
This is a very clear question on a very clear issue. This admits many different viewpoints. It does not admit "the president said it so it must be true" as a rational argument. Do not forget, this is the man who started trying to take political advantages of what will be the deaths of over two hundred people. Most of the dead were still in the rubble when he started it.
The primary defense of Clinton will be that he did not name any names. Fine. Who and what was he talking about? He was either making it up out of whole cloth or he names and examples.
When he is willing to say exactly who he meant and what he is talking about then we have some person and some statement to discuss. Otherwise, he was deliberately stirring up political problems with an eye towards his own advantage.
This is now the defined battleground. EVERY unnamed person who says ANY undefined thing against the government is now being named as motivating the explosion. If anyone want to make that accusation, it was caused by Janet Reno first. Period. End of discussion.
If Clinton will not name the people and the statements then no fool liberal is going to be allowed to fill in his pet peeve and pretend that is what the President meant. And that is what they are doing.
They can try to play their blame game and their shame game all they want. It will not hold water. It is not a tolerable position.
Bill Clinton! Liberals! Fuck off!