Posted on 06/29/2008 11:45:23 AM PDT by Deek1969
Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama’s campaign, invoked John McCain’s military service against him in one of the more personal attacks on the Republican presidential nominee this election cycle. ADVERTISEMENT
Clark said that McCain lacked the executive experience necessary to be president, calling him “untested and untried” on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And in saying so, he took a few swipes at McCain’s military service.
“He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn't held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn't a wartime squadron,” Clark said.
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Clark is a certifiable jackass.
He states McCain hasn't had executive experience then states that he did.
Has Wesley Clark ever held an elected office? As far as I know he’s never even been elected Dog Catcher. Just saying.
Time will tell.
Weasel Wesley Clark:
Soon after Clark entered the race, though, another Clinton-era general, Tommy Franks, who retired this summer after directing the capture of Baghdad, was asked in a private setting whether he believed that Clark would make a good President. “Absolutely not,” Franks replied.
Retired General Hugh Shelton was asked the same question after giving a talk at a college in California. Shelton, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was Clark’s boss in 1999 when Clark was unceremoniously told that he was being removed from his position as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. “I’ve known Wes for a long time,” Shelton said. “I will tell you the reason he came out of Europe early had to do with integrity and character issues, things that are very near and dear to my heart. . . . Wes won’t get my vote.” Shelton has refused to explain how he came to his conclusion.
Kosovo war was conducted without the endorsement of the U.N. Security Council
Clark: Kosovo war was “technically illegal.”
“The Russians and the Chinese said they would both veto it. There was never a chance that it would be authorized.”
Clark said: the war against Serbia was waged to stop the imminent threat of ethnic cleansing in the disputed province of Kosovo; the war in Iraq, he said, was waged under false pretenses.
he also had a certainty about the rightness of his views which led to conflicts with his colleagues and, sometimes, his superiors, a classic ‘brown-noser’
Clark’s last three Army jobs, including two at the highest rank, were awarded to him without the Army’s recommendation.
General John Shalikashvili:
he was too brash and cocky, too sure that his way was the right way, and therefore not a good listener and difficult to deal with
the Army Chief of Staff, General Dennis Reimer, refused to recommend him
Clark pushed his advisory role to the point of policy advocacy
Clark believed in what he called “compellant” diplomacy—coercing the enemy to come to the negotiating table
Cohen, according to someone who worked closely with him, had come to regard Clark’s hiring as one of the worst mistakes of his tenure at Defense, and the relationship between the two men became so strained that one of the Joint Chiefs still groans at the memory of Cohen’s tortured body language when Clark would enter the room. What so vexed Cohen and the Chiefs was not just the fact that Clark had routinely gone behind their backs, or that Clark was so unyieldingly certain of his judgment. They believed that, too often, Clark’s judgment was wrong.
This was nato’s first war. Fifty years earlier, nato had been designed as a defense alliance, holding the line in Europe against Soviet aggression. Now, in an offensive campaign, it could only wage war by committee; the process was so unwieldy that it became, to future American Defense officials, an object lesson in how not to fight a war.
Clark wrote in his memoir, he was at a retirement dinner for a colleague when he received a call from Shelton. “Wes, at the White House meeting today there was a lot of discussion about your press conference,” Shelton said. “The Secretary of Defense asked me to give you some verbatim guidance, so here it is: ‘Get your fucking face off the TV. No more briefings, period. That’s it.’ I just wanted to give it to you like he said it. Do you have any questions?”
Clark murdered dozens of children at Waco and 2,000 civilians in Serbia. He is a war criminal.
Clark served all of ONE MONTH in Vietnam before getting his ass shot up. Everything afterward was a desk job.
I am amazed Clark has the audacity to criticize anyone - especially military - when he is such a sissy himself.
I always picture him in dress ballet slippers reviewing the troops.
And a whiner? Absolutely tea kettle whine.
When this despicable Perfumed General speaks — all one hears is a brain fart.
Does anyone think Wesley Clark could fight his way out of a tow sack full of gay smurfs? How would you like to be led into battle by that cream puff?
I don't think BJC realllly wanted to be first laddy and I do think Hillary realllly doesn't want BO in her way for 2012.
Never mind.
What an embarrassment he is.
Snorting coke in da hood!
Wesley Clark’s decision to belittle a fellow Vietnam veteran’s service for political purposes reflects poorly on his own character. This is really sad because Clark and McCain were both wounded in action during that war.
Perhaps the reason McCain never rose to a higher position is that he was being tortured in an enemy prison camp for five years instead of advancing his military career. Clark should bear in mind the words, “There for the grace of God go I” and realize that, if the enemy had shot him up a little more thoroughly, he might have been honorably discharged as a junior officer (because of wounds that rendered him unable to continue to serve) and never gotten the opportunity to become a general. McCain had the bad luck instead, and for Clark to use a fellow service member’s bad luck to deride him is sickening.
The fact that McCain made captain (equal to a colonel) despite being maimed for life by Communist torturers attests to his character and ability.
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