Clark Hints at Bush's Military Service

story.news.yahoo.com ^ | 01/17/2004 | TOM RAUM/AP

[gaspar]

By the way, George Soros's son is closely associated with the Democrat National Committee, and works in support of various leftwing causes from his base in North Carolina.

[Headfulofghosts]

I know this is going to come up after covering a Wesley Clark for President 2004 rally at the Sheraton Hotel in Tacoma, last week or so.

[Headfulofghosts]

Go after Clark with his support of the KLA. He declines to comment them as a terrorist organization.

[cyncooper]

The idea that Clark could win the nomination makes me literally sick to my stomach. If he's saying it you know the clintons are pushing it behind the scenes.

Nauseating.

[cyncooper]

He was honorably discharged 8 months before the end of his six year hitch in the Air National Guard. They were retiring the jet fighter plane he flew, the F-102, and they don't waste time cross-training pilots on another plane when they have less than a year to go.

We know that, adam, but notice the reporter chose to not include that, merely says it "revives" a controversy, then recites the elements that hint there may be something to these Moore/Clark ravings.

I also submit that any decent reporter would point out the Shelton comments. Since Clark has chosen to question the service of President Bush, a good reporter would have informed readers there are also questions about Clark's service.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I say let them spew their lies!

They will be proven as lier's to the public when someone drags out the record and proves to the public that they are being lied to by the DNC.

That will really sit well with the independent voters now, won't it?

The independents, who pride themselves with not claiming a party loyalty because they hate partisan propaganda....

[Archangelsk]

Because Hammerin' Hank was Clark's first line supervisor.

[hotpotato]

"I'm delighted with Michael Moore, I really appreciate his support, he's a fantastic leader. I thank him tremendously for being here."

Someone should ask him what he thinks about Moore's comments that had the 9/11 passengers been African American instead of a bunch of scaredy whites, the terrorists would have never been able to fly the airplanes into buildings.

[Bringbackthedraft]

"why was Clark fired........ by Shelton?"

My bet is, Clark was (is) a loose cannon.

[daybreakcoming]

There is a link somewhere......Clark wanted/ordered the British commander to move tanks, men, etc. to an airport where the Russians were scheduled to land. Clark wanted them confronted and blocked from landing. The British commmander refused saying he was not going to start WW3.
Here is one editorial from antiwar.com (of all places) for what it's worth

'THE GUY WHO ALMOST STARTED WORLD WAR III'

In Waging Modern War, General Clark wrote about his fury upon learning that Russian peacekeepers had entered the airport at Pristina, Kosovo, before British or American forces. In the article "The guy who almost started World War III," (Aug. 3, 1999), The Guardian (U.K.) wrote, "No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians played a crucial role in ending the West's war against Yugoslavia than we learn that if NATO's supreme commander, the American General Wesley Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed Pristina airport, threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis with Moscow since the end of the Cold War."

"I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen. Clark when he refused to accept an order to send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital. The Times of London reported on 23 May 2001 in an article titled, "Kosovo clash of allied generals," that "General Sir Michael Jackson [was] told that he would have to resign if he refused to obey an order by the American commander of Nato's forces during the Kosovo war to stop the Russians from seizing control of Pristina airport in June 1999."

If General Clark had had his way, we might have gone to war with Russia, or at least resurrected vestiges of the Cold War and we certainly would have had hundreds if not thousands of casualties in an ill-conceived ground war

In his article titled, "A Long, Tough Job," which appeared in the Washington Post on 14 September, Clark writes, "And the American public will have to grasp and appreciate a new approach to warfare. Our objective should be neither revenge nor retaliation, though we will achieve both. Rather, we must systematically target and destroy the complex, interlocking network of international terrorism. The aim should be to attack not buildings and facilities but the people who have masterminded, coordinated, supported and executed these and other terrorist attacks.

"Our methods should rely first on domestic and international law, and the support and active participation of our friends and allies around the globe. Evidence must be collected, networks uncovered and a faceless threat given shape and identity."

"Rely on international law"? Clinton and his gangsters broke every international law on the books regarding Yugoslavia. "Evidence must be collected?" Evidence of what? The Serbs certainly did not have weapons of mass destruction; nor did they attack us first; nor were they ever a threat to us. His words ring hollow.

You can read "Wes" Clark's letter to the National Albanian American Council of 1 November 2002, in which he says, "Let's stay in touch." For an American general who was supposed to be impartial in a civil war, it is no secret that Clark is the Albanian lobby's fair-haired boy. And why not? He delivered Kosovo to them.

General Clark brags about the fact that not one solder was killed under his command. Even though the Serbs had every opportunity to kill American soldiers, I contend that the Serbs did not want Americans to die at their hands. This was illustrated when Sgt. Christopher Stone of Smiths Creek, Michigan, upon his release, left a note to his prison guards thanking them for treating him with "dignity and respect." The Pentagon declined to release a copy of Stone's note, but a copy was made available to The Associated Press (5 May 1999). The note ended with "Thank you, you are very kind" and "God help you."

Col. David Hackworth, in his 1999 commentary Defending America, wrote of Clark: Known by those who've served with him as the Ultimate Perfumed Prince, he's far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets fly and soldiers die.

Col. Jatras writes that "General Clark is the kind of general we saw too often during the Vietnam War and hoped never to see again in a position of responsibility for the lives of our GIs and the security of our nation. That it happened once again we can thank that other Rhodes scholar from Arkansas."

In this writer's judgement, what this guy is positioning himself for is the VP slot with Hillary running for President. It would be a marriage made in Hell...a Hell for all of us.

Knowing all the above, why would anyone want as president or VP a guy who was willing to start World War III for the sake of his own ego and self-importance?

[mombonn]

He is a horrible politician.

He's a horrible excuse for a human being as well.

[Terry Mross]

Clark really is dumb. He's trying to tell these people they're in trouble because they don't have a state income tax then the people applaud the fact that they don't have a state income tax.

And why on earth would anyone refer to Moore or anyone like him as a "leader"? Is Tom Cruise a "leader"? Is Alec Baldwin a "leader"? Is Bruce Willis or James Woods a "leader"? Was Elvis a "leader"? No! They're entertainers! Get a clue, Clark!