Clark Vows: No 9/11s on My Watch

NewsMax.com ^ | Jan. 9, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark is promising that if he's elected president he'll guarantee that America won't be attacked again the way it was on Sept. 11, 2001 - even though he recently admitted that when he was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO he did nothing to stop the first 9/11 attack.

"If I'm president of the United States, I'm going to take care of the American people," Clark told the Concord Monitor on Friday.

"Nothing is going to hurt this country, not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way."

However, just five days ago, when the former NATO commander was asked what he did to prevent the first 9/11, he told "Meet the Press" that stopping bin Laden wasn't his job.

"The information [we had on bin Laden] was coming out of the Central Command area," said Clark. "What my responsibility was, was to take the measures in my area."

In fact, the White House hopeful confessed that what he and other Clinton generals did to counter al Qaeda pretty much amounted to all talk and no action.

"We did have threats by Osama bin Laden," he told host Tim Russert. "We were under high alert starting in late summer of '98 . . . We had continuing discussions on this at our commanders' conferences with the Secretary of Defense."

Still, despite his own sorry record on fighting terrorism, Clark told the Monitor that President Bush's negligence contributed to 9/11.

"I think [9/11] could have been prevented . . . I think it can be prevented again if we have the right leadership. That's me. I will protect America."

Hear Clark's former boss explain how he blew a chance to take Osama bin Laden into custody.

[CaptRon]

Megalomania.

[claudiustg]

Clark is painful to listen to.

[Poohbah]

Clark Vows: No 9/11s on My Watch

Believing that one can control the actions of other people is, to put it mildly, insane.

[CougarGA7]

Not to mention common sense. It seems that all the Dem candidates don't have the ability to think before they speak.....which is fine by me.

[Coop]

This guy just gets dumber and dumber.

[JustPlainJoe]

there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way."

Correct, Wesley...We need to move RIGHT.

He (or any other Dem) will insure against attack by appeasing the enemy, give them ALL they want and render the U.S. military harmless as a post-dentist Bumbles! (re:Rudolph Christmas...)

[yoe]

Big words from a little man...a lot happened on his watches of yesterday that the mainstream press doesn't talk about...I'll huff and I'll puff and blow your house down
...yeah right you tantrum throwing PPP...it was the last president who did nothing - this President did something!

[RightWhale]

he'll guarantee that America won't be attacked again

This is absurd. Whatever passes for logical reality in most people is almost certainly missing from this man's mind.

[duckbutt]

I wonder if that idiot Clark wants to put this in writing? Iron clad guarantee, Wussly??

[Belisaurius]

Howard Dean should at least give the guy a reach-around. Clark has really been stepping up to take one for the team this week.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Desperately insane and inane.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

What a loose cannon this idiot Wesley Clark is! In fact, the whole "traitor/treason democrat party is going whacko! These candidates are all total losers and any American that votes for them is signing their own death warrant. I'll bet Bin Laden is just licking his lips praying for one of these morons to be elected. Think again, Osama!

[EggsAckley]

"there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way."

This is the part of his statement that has me the most puzzled. It makes no sense.

[Cold Heat]

LOL!

Adding this one to my list.

[Moby Grape]

This is a 100% accurate comment from Clark...because he will NEVER have a watch for something to happen on.

[Cyber Liberty]

Hmmmmm.....

Only the perpetrators of these crimes can make such a guarantee. Is Clark one of them?

Hmmmmmm......

[EggsAckley]

Ah....nice angle, Grasshopper. I think you're on to the punchline of the Clark joke.

LOL!!

[semaj]

An arrogant SOB

[BJungNan]

Is he insane?

Yes, apparently.

[BJungNan]

No, no. He is not insane. This is Clinton spin. He said, no 9/11's. As for any other date that something might happen, he has an out.

It all depends on what your definition of 9/11 is.