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Wes Clark: McCain As Dangerous As Bush
NewsMax ^ | 2/15/08 | NewsMax Staff

Posted on 02/15/2008 9:51:38 PM PST by melt

“If you don’t think John McCain is just as dangerous in the White House as George W. Bush, think again.”

That’s how retired four-star General Wesley Clark begins a fundraising e-mail sent on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Clark, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2004 race, writes in his e-mail:

“McCain will not reverse the foreign policy mistakes of George Bush. He is content to leave us in Iraq, saying it’d be ‘fine by me’ if we were in Iraq for another 100 years. He is rash on using military force with Iran. He overplays the military card and doesn’t seem to appreciate that the real strength of the nation lies in our economy and in our values.”

In seeking contributions to the DSCC for this year’s Senate campaign, Clark says: “We have to be sure we have a Congress that will support a Democratic president but also one that, in the event of a John McCain presidency, has enough horsepower to ensure he can’t continue the policies of George W. Bush.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clark; mccain; war; wesclark
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To: Grunthor
Yes, paying for your own defense IS expensive. But paying for the World’s defense has made us the master of the globe, and we can well afford it as long as our vibrant capitalist market doesn’t become as moribund as Europe.

Our troops being in Germany and Korea and Iraq is a good thing for the U.S.A. for Germany for Korea and for Iraq; and good for the world.

We will leave Iraq when and if Iraq asks us to go. And that will not mean we will leave the Middle East in some Ron Paul fit of isolationism, we would move our troops to Kuwait or Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan.

61 posted on 02/16/2008 9:12:26 AM PST by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD)
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To: allmendream

“But paying for the World’s defense has made us the master of the globe, and we can well afford it as long as our vibrant capitalist market doesn’t become as moribund as Europe.”

Seen the stock market lately?

What were gas prices like in say...spring of ‘99?

What are you going to do with your “rebate” check?

Our economy is not “vibrant” as you describe it. It could regain past heights but the givernment is going to need to cut spending across the board in order to make that happen.


62 posted on 02/16/2008 9:17:18 AM PST by Grunthor (Conservative in voluntary exile since 2006.)
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To: Grunthor
We are still there because that government wants us there. It is far more desirable than paying for their own defense.

That is pretty much what I thought you might say.

Thank you.

You have no idea what you're talking about. That particularly base has a whole lot to do with OUR defense.

63 posted on 02/16/2008 9:40:41 AM PST by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Racehorse

“That particularly base has a whole lot to do with OUR defense.”

Our defense from......?


64 posted on 02/16/2008 9:43:25 AM PST by Grunthor (Conservative in voluntary exile since 2006.)
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To: Grunthor

If you knew what you were talking about, you’d know.

Move on. Nothing to trade with you.


65 posted on 02/16/2008 10:05:12 AM PST by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Racehorse

So...you have no answer. Figured as much.


66 posted on 02/16/2008 10:06:14 AM PST by Grunthor (A man can only hold his nose so hard before real tissue damage results - jeddavis)
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To: Grunthor

You figure?

I thought you demonstrated quite a different talent.

Move on, know nothing.


67 posted on 02/16/2008 10:09:43 AM PST by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Bender2
re: Wesley Clark is an


68 posted on 02/16/2008 10:10:42 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: Mogollon
Actually Clark was the living embodiment of Courtney Massingale... The personification of the “perfumed princes of the Pentagon”.
69 posted on 02/16/2008 11:57:46 AM PST by RedEyeJack
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To: TitansAFC; meandog; onyx; MARTIAL MONK; Kuksool; freespirited; furquhart; mossyoaks; ...
For your reading entertainment!

The McCain List.
Common sense conservatism

70 posted on 02/16/2008 12:08:41 PM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: jimfree

Wesley Clark — the general who supplied the armor and artillery for the massacre at Waco.


71 posted on 02/16/2008 2:12:41 PM PST by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: melt
This from the Butcher of Waco !

72 posted on 02/16/2008 2:17:37 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: Caipirabob
However Bush was too stupid to purge the rats that infested both the state department and high level agencies in our own nation.

It might have been politically impossible. The President simply doesn't have enough authority to countermand the media's orders on certain subjects.

73 posted on 02/16/2008 2:18:04 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: melt

Bill clinton’s pet general speaks. Screw you, weasely.


74 posted on 02/16/2008 2:19:14 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Darkwolf377; ARE SOLE
"Someone used the phrase 'perfumed prince' about him, and I'm not sure that's the correct label for him."

In view of the pic at post# 8, "cologned queen" might be more apt.

(Actually, I recall that the "perfumed prince" moniker was hoiw he was referred to by his military staff.)

75 posted on 02/16/2008 2:41:53 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Ask Gen. Hugh Shelton, former CJCS, his opinion of Clark.)
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To: Grunthor

Is that why we’re in Guantanamo Bay and Diego Garcia? To defend Cuba and a rock in the ocean? Please. The interest in our bases is mutual (except, of course, for Cuba).


76 posted on 02/16/2008 2:56:34 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Ask Gen. Hugh Shelton, former CJCS, his opinion of Clark.)
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To: melt

wesly clark Like chuck hagel is very pro un. If he had his way Our constitution would be trashed


77 posted on 02/16/2008 4:26:01 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: melt

wesly clark Like chuck hagel is very pro un. If he had his way Our constitution would be trashed


78 posted on 02/16/2008 4:28:13 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: melt

Well, that’s just about right, dontcha think?


79 posted on 02/16/2008 4:29:07 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: garylmoore

When McCain made that comment. He was referring to the length of time we have remained overseas after ww2
In all probability and if Iraq gov allows it.We will be there for a very long time.


80 posted on 02/16/2008 4:30:34 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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