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In a message dated 10/28/2004 2:02:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jlong@xxxxxxxx writes:

> Stood up?"  All our boycott achieved was to further politicize the Olympics
> (which are supposed to be above politics), deny our athletes the opportunities
> they'd trained for for years, and provoke a Soviet retaliatory boycott of the
> 1984 Los Angeles games.  And the decision was made unilaterally by the President
> and imposed on the athletes, they were never consulted.  I was frankly ashamed
> of that action.
>
> -- 


Shows what your colors are.......which are definitely not RED WHITE and BLUE!!!