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To: combjelly who wrote (520019)	10/12/2009 11:12:01 AM
From: i-node	of 1574327

The plutonium was locked up. The very plutonium they built the weapons with. If it was still locked up, they wouldn't have been able to build those weapons. Yes, this is true -- and it was precipitated by our perceived weakness in the So San interdiction, not by "saber rattling". The So San failure was a bureaucratic SNAFU brought about by the EAP at State -- the pacifists in the group, who thought further negotiation was better than any hard military action. There is a saying -- "Locks only keep honest people out". DPRK would have taken the seals off the Plutonium no matter what, that is clear. What they needed was to see that the international community had no will to stop them and that the US bureaucracy was too bloated an unresponsive to act on it. Which it was. I think it is fair to blame GWB for the timing of it, but it was going to happen, and that was a direct result of the god-awful deal Clinton cut in the '90s.

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