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| Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark entered a crowded and wide-open race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday. Shit. "Weâre going to run a campaign that will move this country forward not back," Clark said, promising to "talk straight to the American people." Then his lips fell off. Clark, 58, became the 10th Democrat in the race, joining a contest that has been under way for months. "My name is Wes Clark. I am from Little Rock, Arkansas. And I am here to announce that I intend to seek the presidency of the United States of America," he began. He entered with no experience in elective office and no history on domestic policy, but offered one thing Democrats crave: New hope of undercutting President Bushâs wartime popularity. "We need more graft, infanticide, bureaucracy, higher taxes, subjection to the UN, and tolerance of perversion!" Weâll get those if a donkey gets into the Oval office. Not to mention a procession of 9/11s because whichever beauzeau it is will probably be too craven to deal with the Bad Guysâ¢. |
| Posted by:Katz |
| #12 I'm getting tired of hearing the Democratic Presidential Candidates referred to as Nazgul or Ringwraiths. This belittles them (the Nazgul that is). I believe we should just use Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings term - Nozdrul. It is a perfectly suitable (and far more truthful) description. |
| Posted by: DaveMac 2003-9-17 10:10:25 PM |
| #11 The fun is just beginning: While commanding NATO troops in defense of Muslim Kosovo and against Serbian Christians, for example, the hot-headed Clark commanded a subordinate British General to attack Russian troops that had landed without NATO permission at the airport in Kosovoâs capital. (Clark speaks fluent Russian but chose not even to talk with the Russian troops before attacking them.) The British General Sir Mike Jackson reportedly refused Clarkâs risky orders, saying: âIâm not going to start the Third World War for you!â Clark also cozied up to at least one man accused of war crimes and ethnic cleansing, Bosnian commander Ratko Mladic. But that's not even the worst of it: Wesley Clarkâs command at Fort Hood âlentâ 17 pieces of armor and 15 active service personnel under his command to the Waco Branch Davidian operation. Whether Clark himself helped direct the assault on the Davidian church using this military force at Waco has not been documented, but it certainly came from his command with his approval. Eighty-two men, women, children and babies â including two babies âfire abortedâ as their mothersâ bodies writhed in the flames of that Clinton holocaust â died from the attack using military equipment from Clarkâs command. Ethnic Cleanser... Civilian butcher... Baby Killer... Wesley Clark... a true (D) General. |
| Posted by: DANEgerus 2003-9-17 7:04:31 PM |
| #10 Remember watching SkyNews the day of the Pristina Airport/Russian almost confrontation. I don't think Clark ordered an attack, rather wanted Jackson to block the runway. Correct? In any case, Skynews sure was pissed. Was it really that close to a shoot out? Plus the way Jackson told him to jump in a lake was precious. Will be interesting how Brit press runs with his candidacy. |
| Posted by: Michael 2003-9-17 5:13:20 PM |
| #9 Democratic candidates for President - the top ten reasons to vote for anybody but a Democrat! |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-9-17 4:17:03 PM |
| #8 Let's remember that except in case of invasion or of US forces being attacked the decision to open fire on the troops of another country belongs to the President (except when at war of course). Not to general whatever the number of his stars. Another President than Clinton would have sent Clark to a a court martial after his order to attack the Russians. Another point: anyone thinks that a guy like Clark can be trusted with the power to launch nukes? |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-9-17 3:27:24 PM |
| #7 I remember his expert analysis on CNN(?) during the war. According to him we should be in Baghdad any day now. No thanks. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-17 3:08:37 PM |
| #6 Drudge: Wesley Clark fundraised for Republicans in 2001, for Pulaski County Republican Party (Little Rock)... December 2001: Clark registers to vote in Little Rock as independent... But in 2003, now he is a Democrat?... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-17 3:06:52 PM |
| #5 The thought of all the ex-hippies and liberal-holier-than-thou's being forced to choose between Bush and a vain-glorious General is just too rich. |
| Posted by: Becky 2003-9-17 2:55:35 PM |
| #4 Soldiers who have worked under Clark refer to him as "Courtney Massengale" of Once an Eagle fame. Just what we need - someone who believes whatever is necessary to glorify themselves is acceptable. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-9-17 2:33:35 PM |
| #3 Gen Clark needs a baggage train to carry around all the bad press that's going to come out now that he's in the race. Example after a few seconds of Googling: "The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general officer) corps," exclaims one colonel, who has had occasion to observe Clark in action, citing, among other examples, his command of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood from 1992 to 1994. Did you know that our good general loaned Janet Reno that armor she used at Waco? A major in the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado when Clark was in command there in the early 1980s described him as a man who "regards each and every one of his subordinates as a potential threat to his career". While he regards his junior officers with watchful suspicion, he customarily accords the lower ranks little more than arrogant contempt. A veteran of Clark's tenure at Fort Hood recalls the general's "massive tantrum because the privates and sergeants and wives in the crowded (canteen) checkout lines didn't jump out of the way fast enough to let him through". The "little people" remember. In the article "The guy who almost started World War III," (Aug. 3, 1999), The Guardian (U.K.) wrote, "No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians played a crucial role in ending the West's war against Yugoslavia than we learn that if NATO's supreme commander, the American General Wesley Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed Pristina airport, threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis with Moscow since the end of the Cold War." "I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen. Clark when he refused to accept an order to send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital. It's gonna get ugly, let's make popcorn. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-9-17 2:31:25 PM |
| #2 Here's some fun reads for all: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,208123,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/671495.stm Of course, I'm kind of curious as to why all of the ultra=lefties like Michael Moore are rallying around him given: http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/nato207.htm http://www.amnestyusa.org/nato_report/ This looks rather suspiciously like hypocrisy, but what does that have to do with the price of Kalishnakovs in Peshawar? |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-9-17 2:04:31 PM |
| #1 So Gen. Geo. B. McClellan is running for president again, eh? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-17 2:00:38 PM |