To: Bahbah
Here is one take on his firing: "Clark was fired by Secretary of Defense William Cohen shortly after the war ended and, just to make sure Clark didn't try to make an end-run, the chiefs leaked the firing to the Washington Post. The reasons for his dismissal seem clear: Clark had pushed a policy that Cohen and the chiefs had opposed (and, even after the war, continued to oppose); he went around them in his advocacy; he was too close, for the chiefs' taste, to Clinton (in signing Clark's release papers, Clinton was led to believe the move was a normal succession, not a dismissal); and, toward the end of the war, he pushed for a ground-invasion option that none of the Pentagon's top officials supported in the slightest."
253 posted on
09/16/2007 7:21:38 AM PDT by
kabar
To: kabar
(in signing Clark's release papers, Clinton was led to believe the move was a normal succession, not a dismissal)How interesting. Smartest man in the world, just like his wife.
256 posted on
09/16/2007 7:24:31 AM PDT by
Bahbah
To: kabar
you have the info about Clark’s firing in quotes. I assume that means it’s from another source. I’d be curious to know where that’s from, for reference.
459 posted on
09/16/2007 10:33:03 AM PDT by
Phsstpok
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