Posted on 01/09/2004 5:50:21 PM PST by PhiKapMom
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MR. CLARK: “[I]t came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. … I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, ‘You got to say this is connected … to Saddam Hussein.’” (NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 6/15/03)
QUESTION: Who is “around” the White House?
MR. CLARK: “I never got any of these calls from the White House. I got a call from Canada, from a man who was running a Middle East think tank …” (WDUN’s “The Martha Zoller Show,” 7/1/03)
QUESTION: Is Canada “around the White House”?
MR. CLARK: “A man from a – of a Middle East think tank in Canada, the man who’s the brother of a very close friend of mine in Belgium. He’s very well connected to Israeli intelligence.” (MSNBC’s “Buchanan And Press,” 8/25/03)
QUESTION: Is your very close friend’s brother a source for any of your other theories?
MR. CLARK: “The White House, actually back in February, apparently tried to get me knocked off CNN.” (Newsradio 620 KTAR, 8/25/03 As Reported On Fox News’ “Special Report,” 8/26/03)
QUESTION: Aren’t you confusing the Bush White House with the Clinton White House, which actually did relieve you from duty?
MR. CLARK: “[Being relieved from NATO Command] was, Clark says, a setup, engineered by [Defense Secretary] Cohen’s office and by the Chiefs. As for Clinton, ‘He was hornswoggled.’” (Peter J. Boyer, “General Clark’s Battles,” The New Yorker, 11/17/03)
QUESTION: Are you suggesting Bill Clinton, the Commander in Chief of the United States, was tricked into firing you?
MR. CLARK: “First of all, I wasn’t relieved [from NATO Command].” (MSNBC’s “Hardball,” 12/8/03))
QUESTION: Because it was a trick?
MR. CLARK: “[H]e says, this is Bradley Graham from The Washington Post, and we have an official authorized Pentagon news leak that you’ll be replaced” (MSNBC’s “Hardball,” 12/8/03)
QUESTION: What exactly is an “official authorized news leak”?
MR. CLARK: “The Secretary of Defense had to leak his own memo to explain that we have no strategy to deal with terrorism …” (Wesley Clark, Remarks To Center For American Progress, 10/28/03)
QUESTION: Was it common practice when you were NATO Commander to leak memos to explain strategy?
MR. CLARK: “Well, that’s [Rumsfeld leaking his memo] what the rumor is, and it’s been talked about on the Sunday talk shows.” (Wesley Clark, Remarks To Center For American Progress, 10/28/03)
QUESTION: Is your favorite album “Rumors” by Fleetwood Mac?
MR. CLARK: “I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001 … [Iraq] was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan … and there were a total of seven countries [to be invaded] …” (Wesley Clark, “The Clark Critique,” Newsweek, 9/29/03)
QUESTION: Is invading seven countries more macho than just picking one at random?
MR. CLARK: “[T]hey told me there was something, some kind of a memo or something. I never saw it.” (As Quoted In Paul Barton, “Clark Again Tells Of Post-9/11 Hit List,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 11/4/03)
QUESTION: ¯¯ Look at all these rumors surrounding me everyday… ¯¯ (From “Rumors,” By Timex Social Club)
MR. CLARK: “You only have to listen to the gossip around Washington and to hear what the neoconservatives are saying and you will get the flavor of this.” (As Quoted In Paul Barton, “Clark Again Tells Of Post-9/11 Hit List,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 11/4/03)
QUESTION: Gossip, rumors and secret plans? Oh my! Gossip, rumors and secret plans? Oh my!
MR. CLARK: "I think Dick Cheney put his thumb on the scale and got Don Rumsfeld in as secretary of defense. And then I think that together they took the opportunity of 9/11 to persuade the president [to go into Iraq]." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 1/5/04)
QUESTION: Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld planned from the get-go to invade Iraq, waiting until some horrible tragedy befell the country to spring the notion on an unsuspecting President and country?
QUESTION: Are you really claiming the Republican Party took the country to war to embarrass Bill Clinton?
MR. CLARK: "[T]here were some people who hyped the intelligence." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 1/5/04)
QUESTION: So who are these people? And, having told the House Armed Services Committee, "there's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat," are you one of them? (Wesley Clark, Committee On Armed Services, U.S. House Of Representatives, Testimony, 9/26/02)
MR. CLARK: "There were some people who said, no, what we need to do is just find ... a country and beat up on them so that other people in the Arab world will know we're big and tough and strong." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 1/5/04)
QUESTION: Are you claiming the President and his advisors, in implementing the longstanding policy of regime change in Iraq, were really just randomly using force against a country as a gesture of machismo?
MR. CLARK: "There were some people who said ... this is a way to sort of ... help Israel." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 1/5/04)
QUESTION: Do you believe the war in Iraq is Israeli-driven?
MR. CLARK: "Ultimately, all of this was passed through a political filter. Karl Rove, he passed judgment on it." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 1/5/04)
QUESTION: Are you really suggesting that Senior Advisor Karl Rove, not the CIA, Defense Department, State Department or National Security Advisor, is responsible for advising the President on national security decisions?
Hard to believe ANYBODY could think this nutcase should be President.
It is scarey.
I agree with what you say, but I want Dean to be the nominee, not Clark. Clark is the scariest and slickest one of the whole bunch.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-01-1999/0000993895&EDATE=
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond his disagreements with Washington over strategy in the Kosovo war, U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, abruptly replaced as NATO commander last week, frequently ran afoul of top Allied officers. In one instance, Clark was ignored when he ordered helicopters to land on the airstrip at the Pristina airport to prevent Russian transports from landing there, Newsweek reports in the current issue. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990801/HSSU006) Gen. Mike Jackson, the British commander on the ground in Kosovo, told Clark, "I'm not going to start World War III for you." Both Jackson and Clark appealed to their respective political leaders for support. Jackson got it; Clark didn't. Effectively, his orders as Supreme Commander were overruled, report National Security Correspondent John Barry and Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey in the August 9 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 2).
are you serious? One word from Rove and Co. and Clark is going to be calling out, "Mary..."!
I hear what yer saying and probably agree with ya...but I'm sorta startin' to relish the idea of having a Clinton protege to attack fer the next 11 months. It could serve to inoculate America against a HildaBeast candidacy in '08...why should we put off taking on the ClintonMachine fer another four years, when we don't have a strong incumbent running?!
FReegards...MUD
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Clinton: BRING IT.
I shows he can't be trusted with power.
Would the official campaign slogan be, "Dead Man Walking?"
Anybody insane enough to put Hillary on their ticket as the VP should be put on suicide watch. Seriously.
My comments about the time are mostly incorrect here. Clarks late-career rise apparently began with his involvement in Waco. He was passed over twice for promotion recommendations, but was eventually given another star by the intervention of Clinton.
Absolutely!!
This guy is so slick, he could pass himself off as a moderate conservative war hero who could make major inroads in the South and actully win the election. The sheeple are that stupid. That's scary!!
It would be der Slickmeister redux; Clinton, Part Deux...
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