Clark Says It's Time to Find Bin Laden

ABC News ^ | Dec. 16, 2003 | Associated Press

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BOSTON Dec. 16 — Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said Tuesday that it is time to end the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and use the intelligence agents and U.S. troops there to find Osama bin Laden instead.

President Bush cited Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons stockpile as a reason for going to war in Iraq, but none have been found.

Clark, a retired Army general who led the NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo, has argued that bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, posed a bigger threat to the United States than the former Iraqi leader.

Clark said Tuesday that he welcomed the recent capture of Saddam, but reiterated his view that the administration's focus should be on bin Laden.

"We didn't have to take the detour in Iraq," Clark said at Logan International Airport, where he arrived after two days of closed testimony in the Netherlands at the war crimes trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.

"There's no evidence to indicate there was an imminent threat there to the United States. But having gone in there, we had to succeed," he said.

Clark said the Iraq war "wasn't the smart move to make at the time" because it did not address the problem of Sept. 11.

"It's time to pull the intelligence folks and the special forces that are looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq off that mission to go after the remaining insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden," he said.

[Ben Bolt]

Ahh .. Another perfumed princess has a mic . Lovely . When he gets capped in the forehead I'll not shed a weep .

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[Mia T]

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[CWOJackson]

Yes, and I'm sure general clark would have his search planes flying at 15,000 ft.

[JIM O]

I find it odd that a career military man is of the opinion that our armed services are incapable of doing several tasks at the same time.

[Redwood71]

"It's time to pull the intelligence folks and the special forces that are looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq off that mission to go after the remaining insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden," he said.

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Sure! It's time to back out of a country on the possible verge of the first democracy ever in the middle east, leaving it in an unstable situation, with the disappearance of WMD from there and when we now have Saddam thus taking away the fear from many who could talk, to chase a guy we know is in Palestine and at the moment has his head down trying to get money and weapons, maybe the ones coming from Iraq. Make all kinds of sense, if you're certifiable!

Somebody muzzle him!