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Clark Credits Clinton for Ghadafy Breakthrough
NewsMax.com ^ | 12/22/03

Posted on 12/22/2003 2:18:25 PM PST by 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.


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KEYWORDS: 2004; clark; gadhafi; libya; wesleyclark; whataweasel; whywesleydoesntblink; x42
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Clark Credits Clinton for Ghadafy Breakthrough
What!??

I think Wesley Clark needs to switch the brand of crack he's smokin'.


or share some with rush
41 posted on 12/22/2003 2:46:32 PM PST by al baby (Ice cream does not have bones)
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To: Headfulofghosts
Clark is now an official member of the WONDERLAND crowd.

Let's see GW is responsible for 911 - the Recession - Enron all of which had the SEEDS planted and nurtured in the previous administration BUT is NOT responsible for Lybia's recent surrender of WMD BECAUSE the seeds were planted in X42's administration. Yep the WONDERLAND crowd gets it BOTH ways and the rest of us still are wondering what is, is.

42 posted on 12/22/2003 2:47:34 PM PST by PISANO (God Bless our Troops........They will not TIRE - They will not FALTER - They will not FAIL!!!!!)
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To: All
"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."

Using this same logic, what about WTC 1993? OKC boming, the Khobidar Towers bombing, the embassy bombings, the USS Cole?
43 posted on 12/22/2003 2:50:09 PM PST by Headfulofghosts
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To: Chad Fairbanks
"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."

When a then-Lt. Nimitz ran his old destroyer, the Decauter, ashore in the Philipines, he was court-martialed and then given another command. He didn't get fired, and went on to become one of our greatest wartime military leaders. Clark is just jealous.

44 posted on 12/22/2003 2:51:31 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (What am I rebelling against? Well, what do ya got?)
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To: Headfulofghosts
How does such a small,petty man get four stars?
45 posted on 12/22/2003 2:53:48 PM PST by Finalapproach29er ("Don't shoot Mongo, you'll only make him mad.")
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To: Dolphy
If Clinton knew enough to warn Bush, he knew enough to do something about it.
So what Clark is saying is "...Clinton was too afraid to get Bin Laden, so he handed it off to a braver man...of course, now he's you're problem now that he's hiding because I lobbed a few cowardly missiles toward him."

> "...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?

No, if the FORMER captain mined the waters, sabotaged the keel, and hired enemies to work the engine room...it would be the FORMER captain who'd be in the brig.

I'm actually LOVING all the things these Democratic hopefuls are saying.
We have Dean saying he needs "permission" from Europe to go to war.
We have Clark saying "shows that you don't need to use force..." when it's clear to everyone else that Bush's plan is working.
They are giving the voters the rope that they will hang from!
They're making it so easy.

Of course, it was all said more succinct by FR'r "Dolphy", who said:
"...it doesn't work both ways. If Libya is Clinton's doing then so was September 11."
46 posted on 12/22/2003 2:54:30 PM PST by mishka
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To: in the Arena
I know the store. I have walked past it a million times. Adds a new flavor to the meaning.
47 posted on 12/22/2003 2:55:05 PM PST by FirstPrinciple
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To: Steve_Seattle
You had respect for Robert Reich?
48 posted on 12/22/2003 2:55:35 PM PST by toomuchcoffee
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To: John Jorsett
Makes you wonder how people are promoted, doesn't it?
50 posted on 12/22/2003 2:56:15 PM PST by MamaB
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To: toomuchcoffee
"You had respect for Robert Reich?"

"Bless me, father, for I have sinned . . . "
51 posted on 12/22/2003 2:58:00 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: PeteFromMontana
Have another

Here's the uncensored version - please do not post where inappropriate
52 posted on 12/22/2003 2:58:50 PM PST by happydogdesign
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To: Finalapproach29er
"How does such a small, petty man get four stars?"

Maybe he caught the virus by shaking hands with Jimmy Carter.
53 posted on 12/22/2003 2:59:43 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: COUNTrecount
Clinton...so much squeezing, so little time. Depends on the meaning of 'Libya."

Clinton though "Libya" was a female body part ?.... nevermind.

54 posted on 12/22/2003 3:00:03 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: COUNTrecount
Clinton...so much squeezing, so little time. Depends on the meaning of 'Libya."

Clinton thought "Libya" was a female body part ?.... nevermind.

55 posted on 12/22/2003 3:00:28 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Headfulofghosts
How stupid and weak can this guy be to let the Clintons use him like toilet paper? And this guy was a General???
56 posted on 12/22/2003 3:01:02 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Frank_Discussion
I alluded to the same (unsaid) biological term.
57 posted on 12/22/2003 3:01:32 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: FirstPrinciple
I just google'd that up looking for a dignified reply to this gobbly gook...

Their products look good though :O)

58 posted on 12/22/2003 3:02:34 PM PST by in the Arena (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my FReeper friends..)
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To: Headfulofghosts
Bull. Clark continually professes his idiocy for all to see.

It's leadership - Bush has it - Clinton did not. Khaddafy sp? did not want to end up in a spider hole. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson - there's something about a looming hanging that does wonderfully concentrate the mind.

There will be others who, to paraphrase Ousay and Qusay, finally understand that "this time the Americans mean business".

59 posted on 12/22/2003 3:03:30 PM PST by Let's Roll (Support our brave troops as they protect us from evil.)
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To: Headfulofghosts
He is extremely stupid.
60 posted on 12/22/2003 3:04:07 PM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace (I'm from the government and I'm here to help.)
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