BR>    The army might've taught you HOW - but I'd bet they also
BR> taught you WHEN  and UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES.  Somehow I
BR> think McVeigh didn't get the whole  lesson - if, indeed, the
I think in his mind he was doing if for the exact
reason the Army MIGHT have taught him.  He had an enemy
he wanted to damage and did not have conventual
resources available to him.  I was taught that those
were the exact circumstances to use such things.
It all comes down to what he THOUGHT.  If I think
someone is going to harm me or mine then the odds I'm
going to harm them as fast as possible.  If my
perception is off then things get sticky.
BR> explosives can be made easily in anyone's kitchen - I made
BR> them when I  was a teenager and used them in small rockets. 
I never made plastic explosives but I made gunpowder.
BR> But the fact that I did that  doesn;t alter the fact that I
BR> knew what I was doing, and my intent was to  propell a
BR> cardboard cylinder into the air in a field at least a mile
What a wienie, I made a cannon out of a couple pieces
of pump pipe. 
BR> INTENT in OKC was to do Grave  Bodily Harm tot he Point of
BR> Death to as many people as possible regardless  of their
BR> status as noncombatants, children, and women, with the
BR> greatest  possible destruction of property.  
I don't know if he wanted to kill the non government
workers or if he just saw their deaths as collateral
damage like the women and children killed in the
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
                      Remember:  Freedom isn't Free!
--- timEd-B11
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