Wesley Clark blames Bush for humiliating enemy combatants, petitions for Senate investigation

WesPAC ^ | June 29, 2005 | Wesley Clark

[SpinyNorman]

"I need your help to protect the honor of our men and women in uniform and to set us on the right course to win the war on terror."

That's odd. The only group I see or hear attacking the honor of our men and women in uniform are the liberal Democrats. The liberal MSM has done more to put soldiers and other Americans in harm's way than any entity other than Al Jazeera.

Isn't it time to add Al Jazeera to the list of MSM members? Other than the language, the message is the same.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I have never had any respect for Congressional or Senate hearings."

I liked the Saturday Night Live spoof of the Clarence Thomas hearings. Made the senators look like doddering idiots.

[Liberty Valance]

Wow. Wes Clark really is a bitter loser. Is he gay?

[Lazamataz]

Wow. Wes Clark really is a bitter loser. Is he gay?

I won't ask, and he won't tell.

[ClaireSolt]

"Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has squandered our legacy of moral leadership." Hmm, are you sure that wasn't you when you bombed the Chinese embassy and stood by in Rwanda? Is that your idea of moral leadership?

I was totally disgusted by the "analysis" by journalists last night. when it was over, I concluded that not one of them had gone to the Middle East. They are all too soft or too eilite to actually report on wars.

[kevkrom]

Maybe President Bush can recall Weasley to active duty and put him in charge of some obscure outpost...

Or 2nd in command at Gitmo, where he gets to witness it all and be restricted from saying one damn word about it.

[kevkrom]

He wears women's underwear, doesn't he.

At the very least, he wears a leash belonging to Hillary.

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!

[kevkrom]

Not surprising they made the young, smart, straight white male the goat

Jury's out on the "straight" adjective...

[Beckwith]

THis guy is a four-star fairy.

[Txsleuth]

Very good post---you have it exactly right---

It seems like the pundits have fallen for the rhetoric that the MSM and dems have been repeating, over and over...

Unfortunately, also, there are ex-military that want to keep their TV jobs, so they even get on these shows and denigrate the way the war is going, which I think is totally disgraceful....

If idiot politicians and MSM want to falsly critisize the military's job over there, they can be un-elected or fired but ex-military just keep waving their medals and rank around, giving "credence" to what the "pull out now" crowd is saying.

[Mach9]

Easy on Oscar Wilde--he may have lived left, but he wrote right.

[Steve_Seattle]

"They are all too soft or too elite to actually report on wars."

Too soft AND too elite. The American intellectual class generally (obviously there are exceptions) adopts an adversarial relationship to our own society, nitpicking our own faults, highlighting them and magnifying them, while minimizing and/or making excuses for the behavior of our enemies. Thus the abuses at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib receive 100 times the attention and condemnation as do the daily, deliberate murders of dozens of Iraqi civilians by the insurgency, or countless other horrors perpetrated around the globe on a daily basis.

This reflexive anti-Americanism on the part of the intelligentsia is exploited by the terrorists and fuels the insurgency. As we saw last year with American entertainers traveling abroad, there is a tendency in the intelligentsia to tell the world: "Look at me, I'm not like the rest of the Americans!" This same arrogance infects most Democratic politicians, they can't hide it, and it is why they lose so many presidential elections.

[TNCMAXQ]

My opinion of Sen Warner rose quite a bit when he made his comments on Fox. Did I hear him say correctly that he thought liberals who criticize the war are unpatriotic? Brit Hume asked him for clarification on this and he didn't back down. It's about time.

[Walkingfeather]

It's not his writing I was refering to.

[Steve_Seattle]

Warner should ask The Weasel: "When was the last time you condemned the actions of the suicide bombers in Iraq?"

[mict42]

I fault Fox for giving this little sniveling weasel a forum.

[Peach]

I guess Wesley Clark didn't get the memo that the Clinton Justice Department obtained a federal indictment against OBL which cited the terrorists connections with Iraq.

And the MSM wrote dozens of articles in the 90's about Saddam's growing relationship with AQ. Saddam was AQ's ATM and he considered OBL an intelligence asset.

That and more here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts

[Alouette]

All this fuss over some intangible called "humiliation."

Can't hurt the enemy's widdle biddle feelings. I guess that means we have to let them win.

[Txsleuth]

I think he also said that he was going to repeat what he said on Fox today at the start of the Armed Services Committee meeting---they are going to be discussing the nomination of Peter Pace to take Gen. Myers job!

Hopefully, he did---I didn't get to see it!