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Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms For Peace ‘ Did Not Have One Leg Up For America 7-22-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All Right. The other story
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to mention, it's a little in the weeds,
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  Speaker 1: but it's part of ada week to me.
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  Speaker 2: Because, as you know, Doc running Verscarti got backing from
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  Speaker 2: the Eyesenower administration, and I believe, of course, from Eleanor
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  Speaker 2: Roosevelt to jump start the Henry Verscarty School Henry Verscari
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  Speaker 2: Center when it was Human Resources back in nineteen fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: But I read over the weekend a story by Michael
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  Speaker 2: Crowley of The Times, Yes, the New York Times, dated
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  Speaker 2: June twenty fourth, which says, how the United States helped
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  Speaker 2: create Iran's nuclear program. We've been providing weaponry forever to
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  Speaker 2: those countries that we think need our support, and that
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  Speaker 2: includes Ukraine obviously, which is much needed.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think Ukraine would.
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  Speaker 2: Turn it against US or society like ice Isis has.
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  Speaker 2: Remember we gave Isis their weaponry, There's no doubt about
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  Speaker 2: it when they were just rebels. Look at what that's
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  Speaker 2: turned into. But Iran's a very interesting story because at
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  Speaker 2: the same time doctor Vescardi was launching Human Resources, Eisenhower.
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  Speaker 1: Was going out and saying let's share and I have
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  Speaker 1: a point to all of this. Let's share our secrets
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  Speaker 1: in our.
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  Speaker 2: Materials, even in the nuclear arm drace with the Soviet
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  Speaker 2: Let's share it with other countries like Iran, like Pakistan.
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  Speaker 2: And this also hits home because on the streets of
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  Speaker 2: New York, in the Canyon of Heroes, there is one
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  Speaker 2: dedicated to the Shah Mohammed resident Pavlaanovi. They had him
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  Speaker 2: down the Canyon of Heroes eons ago after he was
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  Speaker 2: installed in nineteen fifty three by the CIA. Believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not, in Iran, but the Atoms for Peace program
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  Speaker 2: that Eisenhower started and helped install a reactor in Tehran
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  Speaker 2: maybe symbolic, but look what.
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  Speaker 1: It's turned into.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister Pavlabe went on, according to Crowley of The
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  Speaker 2: Times New York Times, to budget billions of dollars for
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  Speaker 2: an Iranian nuclear program that he saw as a guarantee
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  Speaker 2: form of his country's energy independence. The US even welcomed
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  Speaker 2: young Iranian scientists a special nuclear training courses at the
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This led to Iran striking deals
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  Speaker 2: with European allies, and he was celebrated Versailles before signing
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  Speaker 2: a billion dollar agreement to purchase five one thousand megan
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  Speaker 2: nuclear reactors from France.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Crowley, thank you for writing about this. Mister Provlavi
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  Speaker 1: uh was touted.
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  Speaker 2: For doing all of this for the peaceful use of
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  Speaker 2: nuclear power, but his intentions were growing and Washington was suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy.
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  Speaker 2: Four, was noted Iran's reactor deal with France made no
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  Speaker 2: public mention of safeguards against the reactor, against using the
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  Speaker 2: reactors as a base for making nuclear weapons. This is
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  Speaker 2: a man, Pavlavi, that we immortalized on the Canaian Heroes.
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  Speaker 1: We should take his name off. He is a reason,
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  Speaker 1: a reason why this is happening today.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to continue building and he wanted to make
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  Speaker 2: sure nobody was inspecting where we heard that before his
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  Speaker 2: nuclear plans. Then the shop became talking about the right
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  Speaker 2: to produce nuclear fuel at home and denounce discussions about
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  Speaker 2: limitations on Iran's nuclear at nuclear activity.
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  Speaker 1: Denouncing it.
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  Speaker 2: Why is his name still immortalized on the cane of
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  Speaker 2: Heroes New York City. This man is probably a big
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  Speaker 2: reason for why why we are in the shit storm
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  Speaker 2: we are with Iran today, Why we had to do
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  Speaker 2: that bombing of three nuclear reactors that have set them
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  Speaker 2: months back, maybe even years back.
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  Speaker 1: But the point I'm trying to make here people.
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  Speaker 2: Is that instead of having one leg up for the
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  Speaker 2: adaptive community, at a very pivotal time, when doctor Viscardi
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  Speaker 2: was launching the human resources for veterans that were returning
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  Speaker 2: home disabled, Eisenhower goes out and makes deal, makes a
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  Speaker 2: deal with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the crazy part.
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  Speaker 2: We were on the verge of sending eight American reactors
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  Speaker 2: to Iran by nineteen seventy eight, so much so the
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  Speaker 2: card Administration never did send out those reactors, and that,
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  Speaker 2: according to Crowley, kickstart of the Islamic Revolution in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine. But Pavlabi's a reason why we're in the
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  Speaker 2: crap we are today with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want safeguards.
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  Speaker 2: Why is he honored on the candid of heroes, and
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  Speaker 2: why can't in twenty twenty five we keep our technology
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  Speaker 2: to ourself. And I know that signs as isolationist, but
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  Speaker 2: truly look at different avenues of growth within America, and
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  Speaker 2: that includes.
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  Speaker 1: The disabled community. If Eisenhower.
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  Speaker 2: Had just focused more on work like doctor Vascardi and
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  Speaker 2: funding those efforts. I think the disabled community would be
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  Speaker 2: far more advanced in society, meaning I think we'd be
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  Speaker 2: respected more.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'd be acknowledged more.
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  Speaker 2: But no, he had to go and share technological secrets
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  Speaker 2: of our nuclear with countries like Iran.
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  Speaker 1: He would, he thought that'd be a good thing. The
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  Speaker 1: Atoms for Peace has led to chaos, and I'm so
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  Speaker 1: glad Michael Crowley wrote about this.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's just a reminder of not letting history repeat
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  Speaker 2: itsay we want to give Saudi Arabi technology.
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  Speaker 1: No, I disagree with that.
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  Speaker 2: I know Ukraine will not use weapons against America, but
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  Speaker 2: only against Russia. But they are another example of how
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  Speaker 2: we've continued to arm other countries.
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  Speaker 1: When some of that energy could be used to advance.
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  Speaker 2: Especially saying this during the day week, advance entrepreneurs, advance
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  Speaker 2: ideas that will help those disabled community. And it's amazing
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  Speaker 2: because at the same time Eisenew we're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: military industrial complex. He was sort of egging that complex
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  Speaker 2: on by sharing all these secrets, and I find that outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope President Trump can read this article and.
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  Speaker 2: Learn from it, and Congress can learn from this when
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  Speaker 2: they advocate for more sending of weaponry that it may
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  Speaker 2: not always be turned out for good.
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  Speaker 1: The intention by America is good.
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  Speaker 2: But the enemy or God forbid, the ally doesn't always
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  Speaker 2: see it that way. And I will share this link
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  Speaker 2: in the description below because I find it incredible that
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  Speaker 2: at the same time Eisenower could have been taking doctor
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  Speaker 2: Viscardi's idea and invention and doing this country wide for
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  Speaker 2: more people with disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: It only was constrained to Albertson, New York at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like.
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  Speaker 2: When that idea by doctor v could have spread more
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  Speaker 2: so to help other people in other cities and other
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  Speaker 2: states in America with disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, we spread weaponry nearly a year later. That's where
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  Speaker 1: the focus is on. The timeline is very revealing.
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  Speaker 2: On how doctor Vviscardi got an eight thousand dollars grant,
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  Speaker 2: and instead of working alongside.
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  Speaker 1: Even more with doctor va they did presidents did.
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  Speaker 2: The administration goes out and talks about nuclear energy instead.
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  Speaker 1: But we should invest energy.
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  Speaker 2: In ideas, in people and in innovations that are helping
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  Speaker 2: the disabled community and helping them grow, not continually arming
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  Speaker 2: countries that may not always have our interests in mind.
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  Speaker 2: I would go far to say, if we invested the
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  Speaker 2: energy we invest in spreading out these weaponry in the
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  Speaker 2: disabled community, spreading that message. Instead, we got better change,
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  Speaker 2: having one leg up for America and Americans with disabilities
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  Speaker 2: and Americans period. And the timeline of where Iran god
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  Speaker 2: It's weaponry is alarming. The IAEA still doesn't really do
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  Speaker 2: inspections of Iran, and that's dangerous the Iranian regime and
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  Speaker 2: that's dangerous. But to think about how in nineteen fifty two,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Viscardi started the center and a year later, instead
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  Speaker 2: of continually helping him, they say, nope, we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 2: about spreading nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry to Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: Hello. That was a mistake, a big mistake, and.
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  Speaker 2: I think directed by in twenty twenty five. We don't
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  Speaker 2: let Saudi Rabi weaponry. But we simply just say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to take our weaponry and energy elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And then you say, well, they supply it.
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  Speaker 1: Israel with weaponry. Why aren't criticizing that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not criticizing Ukraine's weaponry and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: criticize it Israel getting a weaponry.
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  Speaker 1: I think they needed that at the time.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say, if we can just spare a
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  Speaker 2: lot of energy to help causes that will help people
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  Speaker 2: with disabilities and Americans in general. We'll have one leg
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  Speaker 2: up instead of always thinking about where we can send
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  Speaker 2: our weaponry because that could be turned against us, and
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  Speaker 2: that has been turned against us, And when when we
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  Speaker 2: ever learn