Gaffney: Clark's 9/11 Pledge Disqualifies Him

NewsMax ^ | 1/10/04 | Limbacher

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Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney blasted Gen. Wesley Clark on Saturday, saying the general's claim that he could guarantee America wouldn't be hit by another terrorist attack during a Clark administration renders him unfit to be president.

"I think it's a disqualifying statement, frankly," Gaffney told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley. "I think it's that serious."

"Either the man is completely out of touch with reality or he is prepared to say anything to get elected," Gaffney continued. "The idea that anyone could promise that there will be no more terrorist attacks on America if you vote for me would be laughable, if it weren't so serious."

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

Fellow Democrat and presidential rival Sen. John Edwards told the Monitor that Clark was plain wrong. "It is very difficult for us defensively to prevent an attack from occurring. . . . As long as we live as we live now, there is always going to be a hole somewhere."

Meanwhile, Bush Border Security Chief Asa Hutchison dismissed Clark's boast as "bravado and rhetoric."

"We recognize each and every day that we could be attacked and I don't know that any one person could guarantee anything else," he told national radio host Sean Hannity. "We do our best every day."

On Friday the Monitor editorialized on Clark's comments, observing, "To now, it has been Dean who showed a propensity for bold assertions. . . .

"With yesterday's remarks, however, Clark may have out-Deaned Dean. We suspect he will spend the next few days in damage control as the national press pushes him to clarify his positions and put them in a larger context."

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Got a minute?

I'd really like you to scratch my ears,
or help out FR.

[BenR2]

Clark is dangerous.

Watch out.

[AmericanVictory]

Wesley waves his wand and the jihadists abandon their efforts -- not!

[Texas Eagle]

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

[luvbach1]

It was a shockingly outrageous and dumb statement, particulary by a general. Bush, branded a dunce by the left, has never said anything nearly that stupid.

[BenR2]

Wesley waves his wand and the jihadists abandon their efforts -- not!

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Well put.

[Drango]

"Either the man is completely out of touch with reality or he is prepared to say anything to get elected, I vote for two, no one. Two! Ok both are true.

[perfect stranger]

Gaffney with O'Reilly

[Uncle George]

Just look at his eyes when he gets wound up***NUF SED?

Section eight?

[highlander_UW]

Let's send Clark to sit in a hotel in Iraq. All of the attacks will stop immediately from his "magical" presence!

After we get out of Iraq we can lend him to Israel.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - Nothing worse than an out-of-control, incompetent, retired General - running for political office.

[.cnI redruM]

Custer For President! At least that's who Wastely Clark reminds me of. With Clark, there is no substitute for mediocrity. The barracks emperor must be ridiculed.

[blackbart.223]

"After we get out of Iraq we can lend him to Israel."

I doubt they will want him. The have enough problems already.

[highlander_UW]

I doubt they will want him. The have enough problems already.

But all they'd have to do is strap him to their fence and all of the terrorist attack would end and all the fence protesters would go home....such is the force of his presence.

[rogator]

Isn't he part Jewish? Don't they have to take him if he wants to go?

[blackbart.223]

"Isn't he part Jewish? Don't they have to take him if he wants to go?"

I can't answer that. But I'm quite sure they don't need him. We sure as hell don't.

[mystery-ak]

How did this guy get 4 stars....oh wait, I remember...nevermind!

[kayak]

Based on his reaction in Kosovo over the Russians at the airport, I figured his statement meant that he is simply going to do what many FReepers want and turn the whole mid-East into a glass parking lot. And then I guess he'll have to do likewise in the Philippines and a few other places around the globe. That should solve the problem pretty quickly.

Clark is not only a jerk .... he's a very dangerous one!

[Texasforever]

What he did was place an offer the terroists cannot refuse on the table. They will attack just to prove him wrong.