Clark Credits Clinton for Ghadafy Breakthrough

NewsMax.com ^ | 12/22/03

[Headfulofghosts]

Clark Credits Clinton for Ghadafy Breakthrough

Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark said Sunday that his old boss Bill Clinton - not President Bush - deserved credit for forcing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to abandon his weapons of mass destruction programs, even though Gadhafi's turnaround came nearly three years after Clinton had left office.

"It's a program of squeezing Libya that's gone on for more than a decade," Clark told a Derry, New Hampshire audience, according to the Concord Monitor. "The Clinton administration was very much involved with this."

In a slap at Bush, Clark said, it "shows that you don't need to use force to get your way in world affairs," adding that Prime Minister Tony Blair deserved credit for the Ghahafi breakthrough as well.

The retired general added new details to his charge that President Bush was responsible for leaving America vulnerable to the 9/11 attacks, saying that President Clinton tried to warn Bush about Osama bin Laden but Bush wouldn't listen.

"He wasn't paying attention," Clark complained. "He didn't do his job as commander and chief."

The former NATO commander said that Bush deserves to be "fired" for not doing more to prevent 9/11.

"This is the way it works in the Navy, if you're the captain of a ship, and it runs aground, they only ask two questions: Did it run aground, and were you the captain?" he explained. "If the answer is yes to both, you're fired."

Though Clark has repeatedly pounded away at the theme that Bush is responsible for 9/11, reporters have yet to ask him about President Clinton's confession last year that he turned down a deal for bin Laden's arrest in Sudan.

[MEG33]

You have just asked the most disturbing question.How indeed did he become a 4 star?

He was top of his class at West Point but there seems to be a serious lapse of judgement with him.

He says very strange things and cannot seem to grasp that what he says comes off as delusional.

Mort Kondrake say Clark has a small chance of getting the nomination.Mara says perhaps VP.

[Happy2BMe]

It now appears Clark is but a pimple on the Butt of Time . .

Howard Dean Now Clear Democratic Leader in National Poll (Moseley-Braun Beats Ketchup Boy!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Then I guess they'll get their husband's social security checks for a starter.

[stands2reason]

Well maybe they've got his file, too.

[girlfromnumber4]

so basically Clarke is just in this race to defend Clinton and spout talking points to pump up the Clintonista myth for Hillary in '08?

[Happy2BMe]

WESLEY CLARK - SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

[MamaB]

I think that was the plan in the beginning. Who was it that said she might be interested in the VP slot? I read that somewhere. Frankly, I do not see her in a 2nd place position.

[Akira]

According to Sylvio Berlusconi, Gadaffi apparently told him "I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid".

[Happy2BMe]

"How indeed did he become a 4 star?"

WESLEY CLARK EXCHANGES HATS WITH CONVICTED BOSNIAN WAR CRIMINAL

On August 27, 1994, Clark, then director of strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went to Banja Luka - and met with Ratko Mladic, the bloodstained military leader of the Bosnian Serbs. (My note: everybody apparently forgets that before Serbia's the aggression in Bosnia the same Ratko Mladic was military commander of the Serbian army ("Yugoslav Peoples Army") in Croatia and conducted large scale massacres of Croatian civillians there, especially in the ethnically "cleansed of Croatian population "Krajina", another Serb-proclaimed "republic"). The State Departement had advised against the meeting, on account of Mladic's well-documented war crimes in Gorazde, Srebrenica and Sarajevo. Still, Clark and Mladic had a jolly time. Mladic gave Clark some plum brandy and a pistol with a Cyrillic inscription, and the two merrily swapped military hats. What do you do with a man with that kind of moral cluelessness? Promote him.

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[MEG33]

That indicted war criminal,Mladic, has yet to be captured.What was it Clark said about Bush not capturing Osama?Hmmmm?

[DoctorMichael]

"....Clark Credits Clinton for Ghadafy Breakthrough...."

His lips are firmly placed against his Masters' butts.

[Lucky2]

However, I never thought Clinton would be elected twice!

Who would have ever thought there were that many stupid people? Who would have thought that there were enought to vote her heinous in as senator of New York? Clark is a dangerous joke as he's carrying the message of the clintoons.

[Tempest]

Please tell me you're kidding. This kind of rhetoric is utterly ridiculous.

[NYC GOP Chick]

"It's a program of squeezing Libya that's gone on for more than a decade," Clark told a Derry, New Hampshire audience, according to the Concord Monitor. "The Clinton administration was very much involved with this."

Riiiight. And that's the same outstanding paradigm that worked out so well for him (and us!) with North Korea and Iraq...

[hellinahandcart]

"He wasn't paying attention," Clark complained. "He didn't do his job as commander and chief."

Oh, shut up, neckless...

[Ann Archy]

Clark thinks like a girly-man in love with Bill Clinton.....he was a Perfumed Princess.

[Ole Okie]

I haven't seen the skunk (B.C.) on TV since we acquired Saddam either, anyone else notice that?

Not seeing Billy Jeff on the tube is akin to quitting hitting yourself on the head with a hammer.

My, my, it feels so good!

I'm beginning to think that Billy Jeff is SO over.

[thegreatbeast]

This pissant is getting under my skin more and more each day. He requires a good bitch-slappin'!

[texson66]

I think Clark has a future in Hollyweird.. Take a look at his resemblance to General Jack D. Ripper of Dr Strangelove:

[cyncooper]

I just read this article and have not read any replies yet. I know everybody else is going to be saying it, too, but I just have to say it myself:

Clark is carrying out clinton's message and trying to give undeserved kudos to that administration, and deflect blame from it.

Clark is an abomination, that's for sure. And somehow I got on his solicitation list. I've received about 3 emails. Also he is advertising very heavily here in AZ.

Just so he knows: Everybody knows what he's up to. He's there to spin the clinton line of B.S. What a slimy toad.