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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-28-03 06:40 PM
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5. Really?
That's not quite how I see it...

plus this is a dupe IMO:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=790029
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3441113,00.html
Clark's campaign flatly denies any planning role by Clark in Waco. And an investigation by a Justice Department special counsel, former U.S. Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., bears out that assertion. Danforth found no improper actions by anyone in the U.S. military regarding Waco and concluded that the fiery end to the siege resulted from the Davidians setting fires inside the building compound where they were holed up.

Federal law restricts the role of the military in civilian law enforcement operations and ``we weren't involved in the planning or execution of the Waco operation in any way, shape, form or fashion,'' says retired Army Lt. Gen. Horace Grady ``Pete'' Taylor, who ran the Fort Hood military base 60 miles from the site of the Waco siege.

Waco ``was a civilian operation that the military provided some support to'' and ``any decisions about where the support came from were my decisions, not General Clark's,'' Taylor said this week.

and...........
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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7369623.htm

Posted on Fri, Nov. 28, 2003

Commanding officer says Clark had no direct role in Waco siege
PETE YOST
Associated Press
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Internet chat rooms and several news stories speculate that Clark played a role in the tactical planning for the operation that ended with the deaths of about 80 followers of the Branch Davidian religious sect and its leader, David Koresh.
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Federal law restricts the role of the military in civilian law enforcement operations and "we weren't involved in the planning or execution of the Waco operation in any way, shape, form or fashion," says retired Army Lt. Gen. Horace Grady "Pete" Taylor, who ran the Fort Hood military base 60 miles from the site of the Waco siege.

Waco "was a civilian operation that the military provided some support to" and "any decisions about where the support came from were my decisions, not General Clark's," Taylor said this week.

"Clark's totally innocent in this regardless of what anybody thinks about him," says Taylor, Clark's former commander. "He played no direct role in this activity nor did any of us."


La France a dit NON a Bush......malheureusement pour les pauvre Americans, Bush est le pResident des Etats Unit. America's Media's Stinks like 12 year old French Camembert!
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