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To: combjelly who wrote (520019)	10/12/2009 11:05:18 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574098

Rush Limbaugh NFL Fallout Continues With Sharpton Outrage Al Sharpton Rush Limbaugh NFL We knew it wouldn't be long until the Reverend Al Sharpton stepped in to express his disgust over the prospect of Right Wing Conservative, Rush Limbaugh, potentially buying the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise. African American players have already gone on record as saying they would not play for a team owned by Limbaugh, who they claim is racist. Sharpton has reportedly sent off a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, asking him to reject Limbaugh's offer. In the letter, Sharpton tells Goodell, "Rush Limbaugh has been divisive and anti-NFL on several occasions with comments about NFL Players including Michael Vick and Donovan McNabb." In 2003, Limbaugh stated that McNabb was getting special treatment in the press because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed. The New York Giants Mathias Kiwanuka and New York Jets Bart Scott are just two of the players who said on Friday they would never play for an NFL team owned by Limbaugh. "All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama's America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting 'right on,'" Kiwanuka told The Daily News. "I mean, I don't want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play."

To: combjelly who wrote (520019)	10/12/2009 11:12:01 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574098

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.