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| Wesley Clark - Perplexity At Its Finest |
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| "Strong rhetoric in the aftermath [of Sept. 11] is no substitute for wise leadership," retired general and presidential-hopeful Wesley Clark said as he criticized President Bush last Tuesday at a conference entitled 'New American Strategies for Security and Peace,' according to an Associated Press report.� It seems that Wesley is quite a forgetful fellow.� Eh, maybe that is too harsh; perhaps he is just confused.� Whatever the case may be, one thing is for sure - this man cannot become our next president. |
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| Guess who said the following at a May 11, 2001, GOP dinner: "I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice...people I know very well - our president George W. Bush.� We need them there."� If you said Wesley Clark, you would be correct. Confusing, isn't it?� What is the deal with Clark's 180-degree political turnaround?� Did Clark suddenly have a "moment of clarity" and realize he is a Democrat, as did Jules Winnfield, Samuel L. Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction, when he decided to leave the life of a hit man?� Hardly.� It is not only bizarre how contradictory this man is, but amazing to me that so many young people are supporting him, clueless as to his past history and verbal gaffes.� Clearly, Clark is simply trying to win votes and appeal to the crowd by telling them what they want to hear. |
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| Take, for example, what Clark told CNN's Miles O'Brien back in January of this year.� According to various sources, including www.fair.org (which prides itself on "fairness and accuracy in reporting") and www.indymedia.org (a premiere and extremely liberal "alternative news source"), Clark told O'Brien that Saddam Hussein "does have weapons of mass destruction."� O'Brien followed up that assertion by asking Clark if he could "say that categorically," to which Clark responded with a firm "Absolutely." Amazing how Clark, now the anti-war poster-boy for the Democrats, would say something like that less than a year ago.� In yet another snafu, when asked by CNN's Paula Zahn if he had any doubts about finding the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Clark responded, "I think they will be found.� There's so much intelligence on this." |
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| Another interesting and somewhat disturbing incident involving the presidential-hopeful took place in 1994 during the Bosnian civil war, according to another prominent liberal "alternative news source," www.pacificnews.org.� Clark, who, at the time, "was a three-star general and head of operations at the Pentagon," met with Serbian general Ratko Mladic in the town of Banja Luka, where the two exchanged hats and posed for several Kodak moments.� Mladic, who PacificNews describes as "the Osama of the Balkans," was "indicted for war crimes in 1995," and currently "is a fugitive with a $5 million U.S. price on his head."� Ironic how there is no public outcry against the presidential-hopeful who, eight-years-ago, cavorted with a man responsible for killing "more than 7,000 Muslims in eastern Bosnia," while President Bush gets lambasted for trying to protect his own country's citizens.� In addition, according to General Michael Rose, the British U.N. commander responsible for Mladic and Clark's get-together, and in his book "Fighting For Peace," Clark received a small token of appreciation from the Serbian general: a pistol engraved with the phrase, "From General Mladic."� One can only imagine the gifts Clark would accept as president.� Berets, courtesy of Saddam Hussein?� Dirty bombs containing biological agents from al-Qaeda? |
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| If this short expos� has not yet changed your mind on endorsing Wesley Clark's presidential candidacy, let me present what a retired four-star general recently told The Washington Post: "There are an awful lot of people who believe Wes will tell anybody what they want to hear and tell somebody the exact opposite five minutes later."� At the least, consider this before placing your 2004 vote for Wesley "Faux Pas" Clark. |
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Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2003, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. |
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The Real Clark |
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(from November 10, 2003) |
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