Give me a break, Clark

The Chronicle: Duke University ^ | 9/30/03 | Nathan Carleton

[riskyscheme]

Indeed, the inexperienced Clark seems to have appeal for only two reasons: He is a renowned military official and he is perceived as being a straight shooter. And that's precisely why pundits don't like his chances; because as more and more information about Clark surfaces, it becomes evident that his military record is imperfect and his shooting anything but straight.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Welcome to FreeRepublic

[Izzy Dunne]

Forget Hillary.
Clark was pushed into the race by Al Sharpton, because Al was tired of being the looniest...

[Spruce]

Mary Help!

[mrsmith]

"...The real reason for his quick start became obvious last Thursday when the Associated Press ran a pro-Clark story titled "Clark Takes Spotlight at New York Debate."
The debate had begun at 4 p.m.
The story hit the wires at 4:30 p.m.

Nathan Carleton is a Trinity junior. His column appears every other Tuesday. "

That's a smart junior that Nathan Carleton!

[OldFriend]

Story up on Drudge that I couldn't link to.........Clark calling on ABC to fire Rush Limbaugh.

Guess if Rush had only said how ashamed he was of President Bush, all would be well.

[basque69]

There's more here than meets the eye. Why would General Hugh Shelton say that Clark was relieved of duty for reasona of integrity. Two points: (1) Integrity is holy to the American officer corps. (2) Why did Shelton bring this up in public? This is against the code of omerta for the officer corps. I am baffled.

[WilliamWallace1999]

Simple, Clark broke the code first. He was passed over for the fourth star and whined directly to Billary. They now see him as the usurper of military decorum and he is outside the clan. The military would have no more respect for him as C-in-C than they did for the Fornicator.

[basque69]

Thanks. You turned the lights on. His lack of coherence in organizing (failed to register as a democrap), foot in
mouth,etc, indicate to me that he is in the race as a Charlie Macarthy for the Clintons who have provided his handlers. Is he getting his feet wet in order to be Billary's new Algore?

[Terry Mross]

I wouldn't doubt it one bit that Clark is calling on "ABC" to fire Rush. The problem is Rush works for ESPN.

[OldFriend]

ABC is the parent company of ESPN........

I had no idea but it explains a lot......

[GOPJ]

Clark wants Rush fired. But when a certain democrat running for Governor in California used the N-word last month, there was not a peek. Same for the press. Double standard? Bet on it.

[Governor Tilden]

Answer me this one, WilliamWallace1999:

If General Clark was the one calling for ground troops in the 78-day bombing war against Serbia, and General Shelton (a former commander of SOCOM) sees fit (in one statement to the press which he has yet, a week later, to clarify) to criticize him, and Clark didn't get what he wanted in Kosovo, then...

Who is REALLY responsible for the allegations that the high-level bombing campaign killed more people than necessary:

http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry082603.asp

And in light of Shelton's own defense (and rubberstamping of the falsification of the air attack's success, see below) that the campaign worked, is Clark's line of bulls**t here any more reprehensible, since he still took orders from... General Hugh Shelton himself?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/milosevic/story/0,10639,520177,00.html

Yeah, Clark might have broken the bulls**t code that requires more people to die in order to make the JCS look all Colin Powell-like, but you know what he did? He appealed to the Commander-in-Chief instead, and still got rebuffed. Or did he?

And strangely enough, that's where the story ends. SOCOM members of 1997, how was the weather at Fort Bragg that summer?