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General Wesley Clark for President?
NewsMax.com ^ | 1/04/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 01/04/2003 12:45:59 PM PST by kattracks

The Progressive Review, an admittedly liberal, but excellent e-mail report (we read it every day at NewsMax) warns of Wesley Clark, who is reported to be thinking about running for president.

In examining the background of this man who would be president the Review learned that Clark is a longtime friend of Clinton - a fact that helped his rise to the top. He has also been employed by the Stephens Group, part of the Stephens family empire that helped to launch Clinton's career and keep him in the 1992 primaries despite cash problems.

According to the Review Clark commanded Fort Hood during the time it provided illegal troops and weapons used in the Waco massacre.

On August 3, 1999, the Guardian wrote "No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians played a crucial role in ending the west's war against Yugoslavia than we learn that if NATO's supreme commander, the American General Wesley Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed Pristina airport threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis with Moscow since the end of the cold war. "I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the internationalK-For peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen. Clark when he refused to accept an order to send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital. . . Mary Robinson, the UN human rights commissioner, said NATO's bombing campaign had lost its "moral purpose".

And on November 12, 1999, at the beginning of the Kosovo conflict, Counterpunch delved into the military career of General Clark and discovered that his meteoric rise through the ranks was the result of "the successful manipulation of appearances: faking the results of combat exercises, greasing to superiors and other practices common to the general officer corps. We correctly predicted that the unspinnable realities of a real war would cause him to become unhinged. Given that Clark attempted to bomb the CNN bureau in Belgrade and ordered the British General Michael Jackson to engage Russian troops in combat at the end of the war, we feel events amply vindicated our forecast. "With the end of hostilities it has become clear even to Clark that most people, apart from some fanatical members of the war party in the White House and State Department, consider the general, as one Pentagon official puts it, "a horse's ass." Defense Secretary William Cohen is known to loathe him, and has seen to it that the Hammer of the Serbs will be relieved of the NATO command two months early."

Wrote columnist Robert Novak- "Members of Congress who, during their spring recess, met in Brussels with Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander, were startled by his bellicosity. According to the lawmakers, Clark suggested the best way to handle Russia's supply of oil to Yugoslavia would be aerial bombardment of the pipeline that runs through Hungary. He also proposed bombing Russian warships that enter the battle zone.

On April 20, 1999, columnist and much-decorated Col. David Hackworth - wrote that Clark "Known by those who've served with him as the "Ultimate Perfumed Prince," [is] far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets fly and soldiers die."

Counterpunch described Clark as "The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general officer) corps," exclaims one colonel, who has had occasion to observe Clark in action, citing, among other examples, his command of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood from 1992 to 1994."

Clark, of course, would run as a Democrat.

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonista; electionpresident; perfumedprince; traitor; tyrant; warcriminal
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1 posted on 01/04/2003 12:45:59 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
For those of you who would find it difficult to criticize a man like Wesley Clark, remember, Benedict Arnold was a better soldier than he is.
2 posted on 01/04/2003 12:48:10 PM PST by Commander8
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To: kattracks
Very few worse candidates come to mind: clinton, sen clinton, b. boxer,,,,,well you get the picture.
3 posted on 01/04/2003 12:50:42 PM PST by realpatriot
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To: kattracks
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

On the other hand, W would beat him hands down!

4 posted on 01/04/2003 12:52:47 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: kattracks
Clark and Waco...enough said. Hang the traitor!
5 posted on 01/04/2003 12:57:02 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: *Election President
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6 posted on 01/04/2003 12:58:40 PM PST by Free the USA
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To: Commander8
Benedict Arnold was a better soldier and commander than a lot of patriotic American fighters. His fighting at Saratoga and Fort Stanwicks was heroic. Also after his failed assault on Quebec, Arnold stopped the British at the Battle of Valcour Isle, which saved American forces from a complete disaster.
7 posted on 01/04/2003 1:00:00 PM PST by ChicagoRepublican
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To: kattracks
I have a hard time respecting a General that is a long time friend of someone that has made a life of despising the military and everything it stands for.
8 posted on 01/04/2003 1:03:39 PM PST by stevem
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To: Commander8
I think it it pretty safe to say that Clark would be utterly bulldozed by Bush. He was one of the most hated symbols of the Clinton administration for the military, and people will be coming out of the woodwork to make his weaseling ways known.
9 posted on 01/04/2003 1:07:37 PM PST by Steel Wolf
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To: kattracks
What with Bush throwing in his hat with the neo-cons and the nomination of Wesley Clark by the Dems, maybe Pat will reconsider and run again. LOL.

Thanks for the warning post. Regards.

10 posted on 01/04/2003 1:10:36 PM PST by The Irishman
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To: kattracks
Having tried and failed to find the next JFK or FDR, the Democrats are now trying to find the next Gen. George B. McClellan.
11 posted on 01/04/2003 1:30:52 PM PST by Loyalist
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To: kattracks
Wasn't he the one in charge when 3 of our soldiers were captured and bitch slapped around by the Serbs. From what I read the three soldiers were performing a training exercise near a combat zone. I still have a hard time believing that story.
12 posted on 01/04/2003 1:31:14 PM PST by Ajnin
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To: kattracks
But Wesley Clark was Bill Clinton's 'wag the dog' General!

He can't be ALL bad, can he?

tanks at Waco Oh wait, he was also in charge of the tanks that moved on all those women and children in Waco Texas!

I stand corrected.



President Wesley Clark

President Wesley Clark

13 posted on 01/04/2003 1:43:03 PM PST by Future Useless Eater
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To: Steel Wolf
I think Clark would be a pretty strong candidate. He's pretty decorated (Silver Star, purple heart, etc.), was a Rhodes scholar, doesn't have a voting record, comes from the South, and was the NATO commander. Sure, he's not Eisenhower, but he could be a strong candidate. The only thing is that the left-wing fanatics who vote in the Democrat primaries prefer liberal ideologues like Kerry, Gephardt, or Edwards. Clark will probably be on the bottom of the ticket with Edwards.
14 posted on 01/04/2003 1:46:45 PM PST by Holden Magroin
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To: Ajnin; kattracks
Do any of you remember when Clark was showing the films of the train we bombed in Belgrade? Clark maintained it was hit because it was going to fast to see it was a passenger train....yeah, after he speeded up the film!

Jim Inhofe had been a glowing star of congress until he made the "retirement" speech for Clark....I'll never figure that one out.

15 posted on 01/04/2003 1:47:04 PM PST by AuntB
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To: Grampa Dave; TexKat
ping
16 posted on 01/04/2003 1:47:43 PM PST by Future Useless Eater
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To: kattracks
Clark is an empty a uniform as Edwards is an empty suit.
17 posted on 01/04/2003 1:53:31 PM PST by VMI70
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To: FL_engineer
Oh wait, he was also in charge of the tanks that moved on all those women and children in Waco Texas!

I suppose that those BFVs and M88 could pass for a tank.

18 posted on 01/04/2003 1:54:01 PM PST by Recon by Fire
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To: Holden Magroin
I think Clark would be a pretty strong candidate. He's pretty decorated (Silver Star, purple heart, etc.), was a Rhodes scholar, doesn't have a voting record, comes from the South, and was the NATO commander

Yes, he was a Rhodes scholar. Another of his scholar buddies helped move him to the front of the line once he made the presidency, crowning a long career of spinning, fabricating, and fluffing his record.

After being forced to suffer under 8 years of Clinton, rest assured that a lot of old officers and Clark's other subordinates would rise up and give a good reality check on Bill's little pal. You've gotta love payback.

19 posted on 01/04/2003 1:57:08 PM PST by Steel Wolf
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To: Steel Wolf
Clark is from Little Rock these days.

Haven't we had enough of being governed by a Rhodes Scholar from Little Rock? I have.
20 posted on 01/04/2003 2:11:39 PM PST by 11B3
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