I watched some of a Hardball rerun (geez, is my life exciting or what?!) with Clark. I caught another lie, unfortunately there's no way to call him on this one.
Matthews: You know, you said something interesting about what happened after we were hit on 9/11, 2001, about how you got the word somewhere in the Pentagon or elsewhere that there were people already pushing for war with Iraq. Tell us about that, first, because it tells us, I think, about the mind-set of this administration going into 9/11.
CLARK: Well, I went through the halls of the Pentagon. I’d only-it must have been within a couple of weeks after 9/11. And I had been on CNN almost every day. I had been down in Atlanta and so forth. And I still felt like a military guy. You know, still looked at my sleeve, I wanted that big black stripe for general officer on there. And it felt funny, because the people-everybody that was going to be engaged in it, of course, I’d worked with them all.
So I went through the Pentagon and just kind of wanted to check in and make sure the stuff I was saying was about right in terms of what they could tell me about the intel and about their perceptions and so forth. I didn’t want to divulge any classified information, but just to sort of calibrate.
And so I went in to see Secretary Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz was there. And I went downstairs, and a guy said, sir, come in here. And I said, I don’t want to take up your time. He says, no, you need to hear this. He said, have you heard the joke? I said no, I haven’t. What joke? He said “9/11, Saddam Hussein, if he didn’t do it, too bad, he should have. Because we’re going to get him anyway.”
Of course, it wasn’t a joke. It wasn’t funny. And he didn’t tell it to me to make me laugh.
MATTHEWS: Right.
CLARK: He was telling me that there was something seriously amiss in the way the administration was approaching the problem of dealing with terrorism. Link
How does this creep get away with this crap?!
Help me with remembering all Clark's lies, I know there were five but can only remember four.
Lie #1 - Bush Administration called him on 9/11 and told him to blame it on Saddam.
Lie #2 - Karl Rove wouldn't return his calls so he switched parties.
Lie #3 - Can't remember!
Lie #4 - Dean asked him to be VP candidate.
Lie #5 - Pentagon "joke".
Help me with lie #3. I want to keep a record of them all.
In other words, poor ol' Wesley couldn't stand being irrelevant, so he decided to run for president. If all he needs to make him go away is a stripe, I'd be happy to sew them on all his suit jackets.
Later: Oops, it's just a rumor that's "out there".