Posted on 06/30/2008 9:29:22 AM PDT by Winged Hussar
Sent to http://securingamerica.com/feedback
Dear General Clark,
I am copying you on this piece, which I am posting to several blogs to which I write, because I don’t need to say behind someone’s back what I won’t say to his face. Furthermore, I added the word “sickening” in the subject line for those blogs. Per “Clark hits McCain’s military credentials” at http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080629/pl_politico/11425, you said
“I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war,” he added that these experiences in no way qualify McCain to be president in his view:
“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.
“I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”
(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...
I read that you were wounded in action during the Vietnam War, so you doubtlessly appreciate far better than I how easy it is to get unlucky in combat. You and your fellow veteran both had bad luck in Vietnam, and McCain’s luck happened to be somewhat worse than yours. Suppose the luck had gone a little differently: McCain was shot down and injured but rescued by American forces while the enemy wounded you seriously enough to discharge you from the service as a decorated but disabled junior officer. Instead of being put on career hold while he was tortured by the enemy, John McCain might now be a retired admiral like his father and grandfather while you were a relatively anonymous white collar professional. I am quite frankly uncomfortable in writing a letter of this nature to a genuine hero, but you ought to think about the phrase “There but for the grace of God go I” before you use a fellow veteran’s (and hero’s) bad luck to belittle his service record for pure political gain (whether on your behalf or another’s).
I will conclude by adding that the individual–I won’t call him a man–whom you are promoting was, per his own book “Dreams From My Father,” smoking pot and embracing Black Nationalism at about the same age at which John McCain got into that fighter plane, joined you in putting his life on the line for our country, and got shot down and tortured for his efforts.
(my signature, with my real name and E-mail contact, appears in the letter)
This will surely backfire on Clark. This is truly sickening and makes me like McCain more than I did - for him to have to endure this kind of disgusting politics.
Clinton’s Butcher of Serbia denounces a REAL war hero.
Remember, this is the guy who conducted high altitude bombings of Serbian civilians in order to hand over Kosovo to the Islamofacists.
At best, he is a yellow-bellied coward. At worst, he is a war criminal.
He ain't worthy to kiss McCain's butt. And I'm saying that as a guy who doesn't like McCain.
Apparently you get elected to the Senate in MA.
Wesley Clark is only interested in being serviced.
Yes there is.
But ... “Chicken” Wesley is no longer in the military. He is not divulging critical information, so he is free to make such remarks.
Having said that, he is a loathsome, disgusting coward. In other words, a typical Liberal.
sssh....Gen.Clark.......the butcher of Belgrade...speaks
- Jim Geraghty, NRO February 02, 2004
Pretty much sums it up.
Re: “At best, he is a yellow-bellied coward.”
Wesley Clark was wounded in action in Vietnam and he got a Silver Star, so he cannot be called a coward. He is a genuine hero like Adolf Hitler, who earned an Iron Cross during the First World War, and like Benedict Arnold. It is what Clark, Hitler, and Arnold did after their honorable and heroic service that writes them down in history as villains while making people forget their heroism. In Clark’s case, his disparagement of a fellow veteran’s service for political gain reflects badly on his own character.
Don’t forget, McCain was one of Clark’s biggest cheerleaders while he was bombing Belgrade.
I'm of the opinion that these types of hits will only HELP McCain. A lot of Conservatives are not fans of McCain; a lot of Republicans are not fans of McCain. His support amongst the necessary core is perceived to be a mile wide and only an inch deep.
But wait until it gets ugly; really ugly. With Democrats fighting tooth and nail for a chance to reclaim the White House, it can't help but get ugly.
Those of us who may not like McCain but can at least respect certain aspects of his character, his service, or his career, will find ourselves recoiling from the ugly tactics and hardening our resolve to defend him. In the end, the Democrats' vicious tactics will only serve to swing people behind McCain. Given Obama as the alternative, I say let them throw mud!
add to that practicaly his entire class at West Point.
I left out Timothy McVeigh, another decorated Vietnam veteran. Mass murderer yes, but coward no.
My point is that a decorated veteran is entitled to respect for what he did during the war (and he cannot be called a coward), but it does not entitle him to commit mass murder, treason, or genocide (McVeigh, Benedict Arnold, and Hitler respectively), nor does Wesley Clark’s Silver Star entitle him to smear a fellow veteran while pandering for Barack Obama.
Clark got fired by Clinton because he wanted to attack the Russians during the Yugoslavian invasion.
Timothy McVeigh was not a Viet Nam veteran.
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