At 07:42 PM 10/16/04 -0400, Adam wrote:

First of all, there were 19 children killed in the OKC bombing. Were these children guilty of some crime worthy of being killed by a truck bomb?

They were being used as human shields by the fedcriminals in the building. They were collateral damage, in the modern parlance. Ask the Iraqis to explain it to you.

Second of all, you make it sound like McVeigh was just your average-Joe

American. How could a non-fundamentalist knowingly kill 168 people?

He was a retired US soldier, carrying out his mission to protect the Constitution.