WACKO CLARK: Bush 'Never Intended' to Get Bin Laden (Call the men with the white coats!)

Newsmax ^ | 1/13/04

[areafiftyone]

In what may be the wackiest allegation yet uttered on the campaign trail this year, Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark is charging that President Bush "never intended" to capture 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

"We bombed Afghanistan, we missed Osama Bin Laden, partly because the president never intended to put the resources in to get Osama Bin Laden," Clark told schoolchildren in Bedford, New Hampshire last Tuesday.

"All along, right after 9/11," the conspiracy-minded general claimed, "[the Bush White House] made their mind up, I guess, that we were going to go after Saddam Hussein. That's what people in the Pentagon told me. And they capped the resources, stopped the commitment to Afghanistan, and started shifting to prepare to go after Saddam Hussein."

On Thursday Clark went even further. contending that the Bush administration has actually pinpointed bin Laden's whereabouts but refuses to take the notorious terrorist out.

"Newsweek magazine says he's in the mountains of western Pakistan," Clark told a Concord senior center. "And I guess if Newsweek could find him there, we could, too, if we wanted to."

The former NATO commander also hatched a nutty theory suggesting that Muslim men tend to become terrorists because they're sexually frustrated.

"Young men in an Islamic culture cannot get married until they can support a family. No job, no marriage. No marriage, unhappy young men. They get real angry, they feel real frustrated, they feel real powerless. And a certain number of them are being exploited in the mosques by this recruiting network," he told the Concord seniors.

The bizarre quotes - ignored by the mainstream press except for a Slate Magazine report today - are reminiscent of Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean's conspiracy theory that the Saudi royal family tipped off Bush that 9/11 was coming.

[areafiftyone]

This man is losing it!!! (img src="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/1/1_4_39.gif">

[areafiftyone]

[encm(ss)]

The General needs to get his steel balls. There's marbles in his head.

[ken5050]

You know...I really think that if Clark got the nomination, it'd be even better for the GOP than Dean...several reasons..Dean has been campaigning for years...Clark's a rookie..he'd implode in the campaign spotlight....also, may Dems are very anti-military..they distruct Clark..and if Clark WERE the nominee, IMHO, it would make it move likely that Nader would run again...

[YaYa123]

"They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!! "

[areafiftyone]

Why don't we send Clark into the Afghanistan/Pakistan Border with a knife and a tin cup and let him try to find Bin Laden. He's such and idiot. I think if either Dean or Clark wins the nomination Bush will crush them into dust!

[samtheman]

Clark told schoolchildren in Bedford, New Hampshire

Found an audience who might possibly take him seriously? He might think so. But unless this is a Special Ed class, they were probably snickering.

[longfellow]

this man should read DERELICTION OF DUTY!!!!

[ken5050]

Maybe Clark can exchange hats with OBL?

[Polybius]

How many resources were devoted to getting Osama after the bombing of the USS Cole?

Did FDR ever "get" Hitler?

[eyespysomething]

So Newsweek says in the western mountains of Pakistan huh? These mountains?

It is, however, Northern Pakistan which is endowed with most unique geographical feature in the world. It is here that the three great, lofty and spectacular mountain ranges, Karakoram, Hindukush and Himalayas meet. In an area of about 500 kms in width and 350 kms in depth, is found the most dense collection of some of the highest and precipitous peaks in the world, boasting more than 700 peaks above 6000 metres, and more than 160 peaks above 7000 metres.

Just a walk in the park, huh General?

[EggsAckley]

Clark told schoolchildren in Bedford, New Hampshire

I see he's pitching to the only audience that might believe this crap. Or would they?

[Billthedrill]

"Newsweek magazine says he's in the mountains of western Pakistan," Clark told a Concord senior center. "And I guess if Newsweek could find him there, we could, too, if we wanted to."

Man, this takes "disingenuous" to a whole new level. Who says Newsweek has "found" Osama anywhere?

[kingu]

I get a giggle every single time I hear a liberal say, when Dean makes a goof, that at least they still have Clark. These RATs really should stop requiring that one's brains must also be included when one's hat is tossed into the presidential primary ring.

[gov_bean_ counter]

This is the shallow, pithy kind of statement we used get from Clinton. I'll never understand why he got a pass from the public.

[Huck]

Remember the song Rush used to play for Perot? "They're coming to take me away, ho ho, they're coming to take me away, hee hee"? They need to revise it for Wesley. The guy is nuts.

[big bad easter bunny]

[areafiftyone]

ROFLMAO!!!

[kaktuskid]

Remember the song Rush used to play for Perot? "They're coming to take me away, ho ho, they're coming to take me away, hee hee"? They need to revise it for Wesley. The guy is nuts.

Better the theme from "Dr Strangelove"!(When Johnny Comes Marching Home)

[Huck]

Wasn't that used for Perot also?