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Gen. Wesley Clark Resigns From Stephens
ArkansasBusiness.com ^ | February 28, 2003

Posted on 03/01/2003 11:34:22 AM PST by HAL9000

Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the Little Rock native and former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, has resigned as managing director of merchant banking for the Stephens Group Inc. of Little Rock effective Friday, a company spokesman confirmed.

"He told several of us that his first assignment would be to Kuwait City for CNN," Stephens spokesman Frank Thomas said. "It was a very amicable parting, very comfortable."

Clark couldn't be reached for comment Friday morning.

He joined Stephens in July 2000, the same month he retired from the Army. He serves on the boards of directors of Acxiom Corp. of Little Rock; Entrust Inc. of Dallas; Sirva Inc. of Westmont, Ill.; and privately held Time Domain Inc. of Huntsville, Ala.

Reportedly, Clark has been weighing a run for president. In the last months, he has met with Democratic Party leaders throughout the country, including Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe. Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Feb. 16, Clark said he had thought about running for president but has not accepted any political money or hired any political consultants.



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To: HAL9000; seamole; Mo1; mewzilla
For research, "Sacirbey" also goes by "Sacirbegovic"
81 posted on 10/23/2003 10:45:54 AM PDT by Shermy
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To: alternatediscourse
Ping.
82 posted on 10/23/2003 10:48:26 AM PDT by Shermy
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To: Destro
According to this site, among Sacirbey's sins is cheating at dice!

http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2002/2-3.html
83 posted on 10/31/2003 11:22:50 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Incorrigible; Kenny Bunk; seamole; HAL9000; wirestripper; Mo1
From today's NY Times (thanks KB):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/politics/campaigns/10CLAR.html
After Retirement, Clark Has Forged a Lucrative Career

Not much on Messer Griesheim, lots on Acxiom.

And Clark sought business advice from Holbrooke.

His dining buddy on the eve of war, others in attendance were Mabel Wisse Smit and currently jailed Muhammad Sacirbey.

What a tangled web...
84 posted on 11/10/2003 3:57:13 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
As we were discussing, don't forget that scumbag Holbrooke, who has cashed in big time on our alliance with the Albanians. Sorry I am behind the curve here, been on the road to the left coast.
85 posted on 11/10/2003 4:07:59 PM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: Kenny Bunk
I see on the web that Holbrooke was a business partner and otherwise chummy with Soros.

86 posted on 11/10/2003 4:41:31 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
A little Arkansas refres her for you:

Stephens was faked out of underwritng ADFA fake loans.The loans from $500 Thousand to $15 Million,many to comapnies which did not exist excep to in order to get the loan, were never intended to be paid back and weren't. All the bonds were handled by Lasiter and Company (Dan Lasiter and Bill Clinton pulled off one of the greatest financial scams in American history. They used the fake ADFA...Arkansas Development FInancial Authority... to launder Lasiter's coke money) No one will ever know how much .... $300-$500 Million? All of the bad loans, which included kickbacks to Bill'n'Hill on every cent, will be made good to the bondholders by the people of Arkansas. Foolproof.

Stephens, a financial power house, despite its Hee-Haw location in Little Rock, wanted in on the action, so they started laying the largesse on Bill, and throwing a lot of work to the Rose Law Firm. They probably (indirectly) set up Hillary's commodities trades, as well.

This is the story Larry Nichols was trying to tell the American Public about the Clintons. This was the story known chapter and verse by Bush I in '92. This is the story for which many an Arkansan died for knowing.

87 posted on 11/10/2003 6:03:54 PM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: TADSLOS
Follow this company from the early 90's to now. Jackson Stephens etc.
88 posted on 11/10/2003 6:06:06 PM PST by oldironsides
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To: okie01
Every day Clark is looking more incompetent, more unstable, more "out of it"

Clark has plan for catching bin Laden

"Nov. 12, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Criticizing President Bush's efforts, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark says he would press Saudi Arabia to provide commandos to accompany U.S. troops in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.....

89 posted on 11/12/2003 10:55:29 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Clark has plan for catching bin Laden

That is indeed a pathetic ploy. Not a plan, at all.

Does he really expect to be taken seriously? Or is he just in this thing for comedy relief?

According to the New Yorker article by Peter Boyer posted yesterday, the Army Chief of Staff called Clark's plan for a ground war in Kosovo "ludicrous". Inasmuch as I grew up with Dennis Reimer, I'm inclined to trust his judgment in such matters.

Clark peaked out as a division commander in peace time -- to be endured until he retires.

That he is being considered a serious contender for the POTUS and Commander-in-Chief is, to use Denny's word, "ludicrous".

90 posted on 11/12/2003 2:30:10 PM PST by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: Mo1
A story about Friend-of-Clark George Soros' possible connections to Russian mob factions is worthy of linking here.

20 Masked Attackers Storm Soros Institute (Soros on war path)

91 posted on 11/17/2003 10:27:01 AM PST by Shermy
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To: RussianConservative
do you have any new news on the "siege" at Soros' Moscow offices?
92 posted on 11/25/2003 3:22:42 PM PST by Shermy
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10799-2003Nov24_3.html

Here's clark on Soros at yesterday's debate. I provide the fisking. Of special note, Clark said he "worked" on Soros projects in Eastern Europe. What does he mean? And most importantly, was he paid (off)? And isn't the operator of those projects in the Balkans none other than Mabel Wisse Smit?

...BROKAW: Senator Kerry, if I could just hold you for one moment, I want to go to General Clark. We're running a little bit behind on time here.

Let me just read to you something that George Soros, the international financier, has said. He's a great patron of the Democratic Party. I think he's met with most of the candidates here probably. (undoubtedly!)

He said that he thinks that George Bush is a danger to the world in the means and in the way that he's conducting his foreign policy. And it reminds him of what he was hearing out of Nazi Germany when he was a youngster.

Do you agree with his characterization of the administration's foreign policy in those terms, General?

CLARK: Well, I haven't seen everything George Soros has written, but he's a very responsible man. He's done a lot of good in the world. I've worked with his projects in Eastern Europe.

And let me tell you this about George Bush's foreign policy: It is reckless and it is irresponsible. (Standard Demo talking point to appeal to the chattering class ignorati. They haven't learned Carville's lesson about the economy...)

CLARK: I think this party's making a great mistake by trying to make a litmus test on who would have or did or didn't vote for that resolution last October. (Remember that - "litmus test")

The real issue in front of us is that this president misled the American people and the Congress into war. (Is it really?) It's wrong. If you wrote this script in a movie, it would be rejected as being outrageous. (Wes shouldn't make movie allusions...given his family's possible corrupt connections with moviemaking in Bosnia) Here we are, with the United States Army half committed in Iraq, no success strategy, $150 billion. ("No success strategy" These dems just can't help dig their own graves.)

This administration took us to war recklessly and without need to do so and it was wrong. (Different than his "we should have waited for the French" line.) And that is the issue in this election and that is the issue we should be taking to the American people. (In other words, Clark's own litmus test.)

(APPLAUSE) (Applause? No unemployed here, evidently.)

BROKAW: With all due respect, General Clark, why then did you have so much trouble in the opening days of your campaign trying to decide whether you would have voted for or against the resolution in Iraq and spend the time that you did in Republican gatherings praising not just the president, but his team, as well? (Good question!)

CLARK: Well, I'm glad you asked, Tom.

(LAUGHTER)

With respect to the opening of my campaign, I want to tell you, I bobbled the question on the first day of the campaign in the back of an airplane. ( Good start for Clark, he frames his multiple contradictory statements as a single occassion in an uncomfortable setting)

BROKAW: Not just any question. It was a big question.

CLARK: But my record has been very consistent. (Big lie technique) I have got 250,000 words in print. (Early on "Mary" chastized the press for reporting what he says, and not limiting themselves to what he wrote). I warned against giving George Bush a blank check in the summer and fall of 2002. (That's not anti-war) I warned against the course he was taking in the Christmas period of 2002. (Still, no statement that he was against the war) I warned against it after Christmas. (What's "it?" What did he warn against?) And I warned we were going to war without a real plan as to what to do next and without adequate forces. (Just copying what others said, and, again, not an anti-war position)

CLARK: Now we see the consequences. We have an American president who visits the families of bereaved Britons and won't visit our own families in this country. What is this coming to? (Coming to a patent lie about Bush, it seems.)

(APPLAUSE)

We need leadership. We're in a mess in Iraq. (Maybe. Clark's not the one, though.)

93 posted on 11/25/2003 3:47:51 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Incorrigible; aristeides; Grampa Dave; Mo1; mewzilla; wirestripper; HAL9000; Destro; knighthawk; ...
#93, part of Clark's comments at yesterday's debate.

Of special note, Clark said he "worked" on Soros projects in Eastern Europe. What does he mean? And most importantly, was he paid (off)? And isn't the operator of those projects in the Balkans none other than Mabel Wisse Smit?
94 posted on 11/25/2003 3:53:35 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Of special note, Clark said he "worked" on Soros projects in Eastern Europe. What does he mean?

Shermy should be asking the questions, not Brokaw. As in "Just what kind of projects, General? And with whom?"

95 posted on 11/25/2003 4:29:14 PM PST by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: Shermy; deport
I heard him say that last night

Deport found this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1028319/posts?page=27#27

Yet those in charge of Soros-funded NGOs have a clear and consistent agenda. One of Soros' most influential institutions is the International Crisis Group, founded in 1986. ICG is headed by individuals from the very center of political and corporate power. Its board includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, Morton Abramowitz, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe; and Richard Allen, former U.S. National Security Adviser
96 posted on 11/25/2003 4:37:03 PM PST by Mo1
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/1748/

Ambassador A-List

U.N. ambassador Dick Holbrooke's hyperaggressive style has made him perhaps the country's most successful diplomat since Kissinger. And now he's using his glittering connections to bring the U.N. into the fabric of the city's social life.


...The palatial suite the u.s. government keeps for its United Nations ambassador on the forty-second floor of the Waldorf Astoria is decorated with an eye more toward New York sophistication than toward Washington pomp. In the living room, there's a Jim Dine painting, an Alexander Calder mobile, and a grand piano, set off by overstuffed white couches and twinkling city views. In the past, the parties held here have tended toward the slightly stuffy diplomatic A-list, with a sprinkling of Council on Foreign Relations luminaries, New York Times eminences, and Wall Street honchos.

But Dick Holbrooke, who's been U.N. ambassador since August, has a different idea of what sort of people the suite should be filled with. Tonight, he's hosting a dinner for General Wesley Clark, the granite-faced, soft-spoken nato chief, who is leaving his post in April. Holbrooke and Clark were bonded in tragedy. In 1995, they were traveling in an Army Humvee in Bosnia when the next vehicle in the convoy slid off the mountainous track, killing two U.S. diplomats and an Air Force lieutenant colonel. The two later spent 21 days in Dayton doing a bad-cop-good-cop act with Bosnia's leaders, negotiating the accords that brought peace to the region.

Dressed in a formal pin-striped suit, crisp white shirt, and red tie, Holbrooke still manages to look comfortably rumpled -- his unruly hair is the secret to this effect -- as he banters his way around the room. Introducing Clark to billionaire financier George Soros and Canadian press lord Conrad Black, Holbrooke teasingly calls the general, whose formal title is supreme Allied commander for Europe, "The Supreme," then launches into a hummed rendition of "Stop! In the Name of Love."

...
97 posted on 12/10/2003 1:12:01 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Grampa Dave; Destro; seamole; aristeides
Usually I see Clark listed as on the "Board of Directors" of Messer Griesheim

Check out page 7 here.

http://www.messergroup.com/de/company/publikationen/CompanyPresentationScreen.pdf

It describes him as a member of the "shareholders committee". Same thing, German style? Why on the Shareholders committee, does he own shares?

I figured you guys might know.
98 posted on 01/07/2004 2:13:45 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
There is a Michael something who posts 24/7 on most articles about Germany. Find his posting name and ask him.
99 posted on 01/07/2004 4:13:29 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Krazy Kaddaffi: "I will do whatever the Americans want. I saw what happened in Iraq. I was scared!)
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To: LisaMalia
You might like this thread.
100 posted on 01/08/2004 9:03:18 PM PST by Shermy (Wesley Clark: The Stepford Candidate)
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