TAKE TWO: UNDERSTANDING CLARK (Clark's Continuing Conspiracy Theories)

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[Luis Gonzalez]

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 18

MR. CLARK:  "[I]t came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. ... I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected ... to Saddam Hussein.'"  (NBC's "Meet The Press," 6/15/03)

QUESTION:  Who is "around" the White House?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 17

MR. CLARK:  "I never got any of these calls from the White House. I got a call from Canada, from a man who was running a Middle East think tank ..."  (WDUN's "The Martha Zoller Show," 7/1/03)

QUESTION:  Is Canada "around the White House"?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 16

MR. CLARK:  "A man from a - of a Middle East think tank in Canada, the man who's the brother of a very close friend of mine in Belgium. He's very well connected to Israeli intelligence."  (MSNBC's "Buchanan And Press," 8/25/03)

QUESTION:  Is your very close friend's brother a source for any of your other theories?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 15

MR. CLARK:  "The White House, actually back in February, apparently tried to get me knocked off CNN."  (Newsradio 620 KTAR, 8/25/03 As Reported On Fox News' "Special Report," 8/26/03)

QUESTION:  Aren't you confusing the Bush White House with the Clinton White House, which actually did relieve you from duty?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 14

MR. CLARK:  "[Being relieved from NATO Command] was, Clark says, a setup, engineered by [Defense Secretary] Cohen's office and by the Chiefs. As for Clinton, 'He was hornswoggled.'"  (Peter J. Boyer, "General Clark's Battles," The New Yorker, 11/17/03)

QUESTION:  Are you suggesting Bill Clinton, the Commander in Chief of the United States, was tricked into firing you?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 13

MR. CLARK:  "First of all, I wasn't relieved [from NATO Command]."  (MSNBC's "Hardball," 12/8/03))

QUESTION:  Because it was a trick?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 12

MR. CLARK:  "[H]e says, this is Bradley Graham from The Washington Post, and we have an official authorized Pentagon news leak that you'll be replaced"  (MSNBC's "Hardball," 12/8/03)

QUESTION:  What exactly is an "official authorized news leak"?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 11

MR. CLARK:  "The Secretary of Defense had to leak his own memo to explain that we have no strategy to deal with terrorism ..."  (Wesley Clark, Remarks To Center For American Progress, 10/28/03)

QUESTION:  Was it common practice when you were NATO Commander to leak memos to explain strategy?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 10

MR. CLARK:  "Well, that's [Rumsfeld leaking his memo] what the rumor is, and it's been talked about on the Sunday talk shows."  (Wesley Clark, Remarks To Center For American Progress, 10/28/03)

QUESTION:  Is your favorite album "Rumors" by Fleetwood Mac?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 9

MR. CLARK:  "I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001 ... [Iraq] was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan ... and there were a total of seven countries [to be invaded] ..."  (Wesley Clark, "The Clark Critique," Newsweek, 9/29/03)

QUESTION:  Is invading seven countries more macho than just picking one at random?

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 8

MR. CLARK:  "[T]hey told me there was something, some kind of a memo or something. I never saw it."  (As Quoted In Paul Barton, "Clark Again Tells Of Post-9/11 Hit List," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 11/4/03)

QUESTION:  ¯¯ Look at all these rumors surrounding me everyday... ¯¯  (From "Rumors," By Timex Social Club)

CLARK CONSPIRACY NO. 7

MR. CLARK:  "You only have to listen to the gossip around Washington and to hear what the neoconservatives are saying and you will get the flavor of this."  (As Quoted In Paul Barton, "Clark Again Tells Of Post-9/11 Hit List," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 11/4/03)

QUESTION:  Gossip, rumors and secret plans? Oh my!  Gossip, rumors and secret plans? Oh my!

[Fledermaus]

MR. CLARK: "The Secretary of Defense had to leak his own memo to explain that we have no strategy to deal with terrorism ..." (Wesley Clark, Remarks To Center For American Progress, 10/28/03)

Hey General Moron...wouldn't "leaking your own memo" be issuing a memo?

I'm so happy watching the Democrats get ready to nominate a total nut job for President be it Dean, Clark, Kerry, etc.

LIEberman used to be sane, but he drank too much of the Gore koolaid in 2000.