Posted on 09/17/2003 3:31:33 PM PDT by Libloather
General Ashley Wilkes Enters The Race
September 17, 2003
I cued the Dr. Strangelove music as I began Wednesday's program discussing the 10th dwarf in the Democratic presidential primaries. I quoted Richard Goldstein's Village Voice piece talking about Democrats "searching for the candidate with the right kind of masculine presentation." He writes, "If Bill Clinton was a bottom-feeding Rhett Butler, then Wesley Clark is Ashley Wilkes..."
Folks, Ashley Wilkes was a wimp - and he was on the losing side of the Civil War! Women hate him because he depended on Scarlett O'Hara to do everything! Note also that liberal Democrats hate the military, and Dwight D. Eisenhower specifically, yet they're casting Wilkes as both. Steven Hess, one of Ike's former speechwriters who's now at the Brookings Institute, told E.D. Hill on Fox and Friends, "Dwight Eisenhower was a friend of mine, and Wesley Clark ain't no Dwight Eisenhower. And I don't mean to put down Wesley Clark, obviously a distinguished military person. The difference is that Kosovo wasn't no World War II."
Remember that Ike was a five-star general, and that scuttlebutt out today says that Wesley had to beg Bill Clinton just to get his fourth star. You can read details on all these stories below, and listen to audio of my analysis. Among the Schwarzenegger-like smear of General Ashley Wilkes is a reminder that he supplied the tanks and military equipment for the Branch Davidian invasion. The same liberals who freak out over John Ashcroft's choice of breakfast heralding a dictatorship, are silent on Clark's acquiescence to breaking the 120-year-old Posse Comitatus Act baring military actions against civilians. Note too that most of this dirt is coming from Democrats, such as John Edwards - the poor Breck Girl who saw his big re-announcement stomped by Clark's buzz.
Big Rumor - British General to Clark: "I Won't Start World War III For You."
David Horowitz's website, FrontPageMag.com, carries a fantastic piece on Wesley's involvement in Waco by Lowell Ponte. Quote: "Whether General Clark himself helped direct the assault on the Davidian church using the military force at Waco has not been documented, but it certainly came from his command and with his approval. Eighty-two men, women, children and babies - including two babies fire-aborted as their mothers' bodies writhed in the flames of that Clinton holocaust - died from the attack, using military equipment from Fort Hood and General Wesley Clark's command." Is that not an incredible description?
But the mainstream media won't challenge Clark on his record, such as the 100% false claim - as he now admits - that the White House pressured him to connect Iraq and 9/11. (See story) On Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics, Wesley spewed typical Democrat bilge about Iraq, saying, "It's clear right now, Judy, that it wasn't worth going in as it was billed to the American people. There was no imminent threat to the American people. There was no imminent threat." Tell us, General Wilkes, what were the 'imminent threats' in Kosovo and Waco?
Weren't those military adventures just a chance for you to help Bill Clinton, who held that fourth star you coveted, get some military credentials after his much publicized "loathe the military" comments? The interesting theory is that Clark is being set up to be accepted by the country as Hillary's VP - not just for 2008, but possibly for 2004. This is the media anal exam that happens when you have a new guy announcing for the presidency. It's as inescapable as it is puzzling. Frankly, this is a sign of how weak this Democrat field is that somebody with zip, zero, nada political experience can be hailed as a savior! That's how bad a shape they're in out there.
LOL! Ain't that the truth!
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