A small Kudos for CNN. Playing a story about our first real Terrorist

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Attack that took a large number of American lives on American Soil in recent memory.

The Oklahoma Bombings.

Love to the people of OK.

Edited due to the bright, wonderful posters of DU.

[Faygo Kid]

1. No. Not the first. The horrid Michigan bombing in Bath.

The most deaths until Oklahoma City. Largely forgotten. Terrible, terrible stuff. Check it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. I was not familiar with that. Horrible.

I'll have to rephrase the OP.

[paul_fromatlanta]

2. There have been others -Bombing Of The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Bombing Of The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

The September 15, 1963 racially motivated bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which resulted in the death of four innocent black girls, was the nadir of the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham and perhaps one of the darkest days in Birmingham's history. City authorities, never sympathetic to blacks, did very little to bring the bombers to justice. Not until 1977 was one of the bombers convicted

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Thanks for pointing this out. I remember when it happened.

Terrible times.

[paul_fromatlanta]

5. It doesn't in any way minimize oklahoma City - it points to common tactics

of those who know they cannot get what they want through the democratic process.

[originalpckelly]

6. This makes the President look like an idiot. Wow! What a surprise!

Last time I checked the USA is a democracy, shouldn't terrorism no longer be a problem in a democracy? We have had 230 years, if we haven't solved that by now, I don't know when we will. I guess that the President was right, later Presidents really will be determining US troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those sweet people. May they rest in peace.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. There's not much of a stretch there.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Tom%20Yossarian%20Joad

[baldguy]

7. Homeland Security doesn't think Tim McVeigh was a terrorist.

But Quakers & vegitarians are.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. Nice point. Thanks.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Terrorist attacks on US soil typically anti-minority. Smallpox v. Natives

started it all, and we have gotten more sophisticated since then.