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Clark Plays Politics with Chopper Shoot-down
NewsMax.com ^ | 11/03/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 11/03/2003 8:43:22 PM PST by kattracks

Just hours after being informed on Sunday that more than a dozen U.S. soldiers had been killed when their helicopter was shot down in Iraq, presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark was making political hay over the tragedy, telling a California audience that President Bush should be held accountable.

"On a day in which 15 more Americans were killed in a tragic escalation of the war there is still no success strategy, there is no plan, there is no leadership," Gen. Clark complained. "Where is the leadership? Where is the accountability?"

The New York Sun reports that Clark told the crowd that if he were Commander-in-Chief he would remove Paul Bremer, the head of the U.S. civilian authority there.

He also pledged to cancel Iraq reconstruction contracts awarded by the Bush administration to Halliburton, the oil services firm that has become the favorite bogeyman of Bush-haters because Vice President Dick Cheney used to run the company.

Clark said that instead of Bremer, he would "put the United Nations or an international organization in charge of the political development in Iraq, but turn over the occupation authority to the Iraqi people."

Last week the former Clinton NATO chief alleged that President Bush was responsible for leaving America vulnerable to the 9/11 attacks.



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004; appallingdems; appalllingdems; wesleyclark

1 posted on 11/03/2003 8:43:22 PM PST by kattracks
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To: All
"no success strategy, there is no plan, there is no leadership,"

The opponents of our war to defend against radical Islam speak of a "quagmire." We are on the verge of a quagmire all right. It's just like the Vietnam era's domestic political quagmire created by the pro-Communists opponents of that war and others who just wanted to "bring it all down, man," as well as, opportunists like Mr. Clark. That was the Quagmire of the Vietnam era. Its impact on the war was a war lost and far, far too many lives lost.

We cannot afford to lose this war. The country yielded to the Vietnam political quagmire. Today's political quagmire must be stopped. But how? We need a leader who is not affraid to just shut it down and lead the military to victories in our country's early 21st centruy wars -- including the one looming with the chi-coms.

2 posted on 11/03/2003 9:02:34 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael
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To: WilliamofCarmichael; All
CLARK = HILLARY

HILLARY = HO CHI MINH

The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.


Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-U.S. 7th Cavalry's Opening Days of the Vietnam War

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(Photos)
3 posted on 11/03/2003 9:17:26 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: kattracks
"Where is the leadership? Where is the accountability?"

World Net Daily/Western Journalism Center
Tuesday.July 21, l998 by Steve Allen

WASHINGTON -- "Somebody came into our waters and shot down -- for the first time ever -- a flag carrier of the United States," an expert on the explosion of TWA Flight 800 said at a Washington briefing yesterday.

Commander Bill Donaldson, a retired Navy pilot and accident investigator who has spent 15 months examining the case, said that two missiles were fired in the vicinity of the airplane, and that one of them exploded close enough to bring the plane down. It's no wonder, he said, that investigators did not find evidence of a direct missile hit; the missile was of a type specifically designed to explode near (rather than in contact with) its target.

Flight 800, Donaldson said, "was intentionally destroyed by a powerful, proximity fused, airbursting, anti-aircraft weapon launched from a position approximately one nautical mile off shore and three nautical miles east of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, New York." In addition, the airplane was "engaged seconds later by a second missile fired from a closer position to the south of [the plane's] track."

There were 230 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 747 when it was destroyed, on the evening of July 17, 1996. The plane was bound for Paris and, at the time of the explosion, was eight miles off Long Island.

4 posted on 11/03/2003 9:18:26 PM PST by Libloather (This WILL get ugly...)
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To: kattracks
turn over the occupation authority to the Iraqi people

In other words ... start a massive civil war and sit back and watch the fun. Wat to see which despot rises to the top, and then negotiate with the new dictator. Who is going to be in charge of occupying the Sunni Triangle? The Sunni? Shiite? Kurds? Please. Why don't we just line the women of Iraq up and let the remnants of the IRG give them their number in line for the rape train. What an idiot. Somewhere out there in Freeperland has to be at least once WP grad who can make some sense of this genius for me.

5 posted on 11/03/2003 9:26:13 PM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: Libloather; Alamo-Girl; Carl/NewsMax
..WHY did TWA Flight 800 have to go down the night before HILLARY's former White House Security Chief CRAIG LIVINGSTONE was to go on National TV the next morning to testify before the U.S. Senate under oath...

...to name HILLARY as the one who hired him to get her those FBI Files on Republicans in Congress...

...or to Plead the 5th instead..?

...Which Event was immediately cancelled on TV the next morning and which one replaced it with 24/7 TV disaster coverage on our TV's..?

Thought so.

The CLINTON M.O. =

"It's the TV, Stupid no matter WHO pays for it"

....STILL...!!!!
6 posted on 11/03/2003 9:32:29 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: BlueNgold
That's what's going to happen in March or April when we start pulling out.
7 posted on 11/03/2003 9:45:44 PM PST by OneTimeLurker
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To: ALOHA RONNIE; Liz; Howlin; RonDog; Mudboy Slim
..WHY did TWA Flight 800 have to go down the night before HILLARY's former White House Security Chief CRAIG LIVINGSTONE was to go on National TV the next morning to testify before the U.S. Senate under oath...

Timing is everything...

8 posted on 11/03/2003 9:51:51 PM PST by Libloather (I smell a RAT. Could be the pantsuit...)
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To: Libloather
...WHY did JFK jr's plane have to go down just as he was to announce his running for the U.S. Senate Seat from New York...

...despite HILLARY coldly threatening him not to earlier that same year..?

Timing is indeed EVERYTHING.
9 posted on 11/03/2003 9:55:09 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
Thanks for the heads up!
10 posted on 11/04/2003 6:50:03 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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