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Friday, April 23, 1999 Clark and Vietnam II By Col. David Hackworth © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com NATO's Wesley Clark is not the Iron Duke, nor is he Stormin' Norman. Unlike Wellington and Schwarzkopf, Clark's not a muddy boots soldier. He's a military politician, without the right stuff to produce victory over Serbia. Known by those who've served with him as the "Ultimate Perfumed Prince," he's far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets fly and soldiers die. An intellectual in warrior's gear. A saying attributed to General George Patton was that it...

Gaffes, Kosovo Criticisms Seen as Early Setbacks for Clark By Lawrence Morahan CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer September 23, 2003 (CNSNews.com) - Apparent waffling on his position on the Iraq invasion, new reports about his conduct during the Kosovo campaign and a lack of a political organization in key primary states have somewhat dulled retired Army General Wesley Clark's high-profile entry into the presidential race, analysts said Monday. "He is a general, and he's known for thin skin, so we have to see more of him out there. This was not a great start, though," pollster John Zogby said. Within days...

Below I present two BLOG articles (ie, not mainstream media, just some guy on the campaign trail known as newberry) from the website The Clark Sphere.  This appears to be at least a semi-official web site for his campaign.  I thought them interesting to see how the defense of Wesley Clark is shaping up.The first article slanders Reagan and Bush and blames the people they appointed with the Waco firestorm.Article 1: The Facts (http://www.theclarksphere.com/archives/week_2003_08_31.html) Waco is Clinton's Bay of Pigs - an operation planned before he took office, and handed to his new AG. The tactical elements in charge had...

Reporting for duty: Wesley Clark Posted: September 23, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 David H. Hackworth With Wesley Clark joining the Democratic presidential candidates, there are enough eager bodies pointed toward the White House to make up a rifle squad. This bunch of wannabes could make things increasingly hot for Dubya – as long as they don't blow each other away with friendly fire. Since Clark tossed his steel pot into the inferno, I've been constantly asked, "Hack, what do you think of the general?" For the record, I never served with Clark. But after spending three hours interviewing...

An Army of One? In the war on terrorism, alliances are not an obstacle to victory. They're the key to it. (Excerpt) “In the darkest days before the NATO 50th anniversary summit in late April in Washington, British Prime Minister Tony Blair came to our headquarters in Belgium on very short notice. To be honest, it wasn't altogether clear why he was coming. But as he and I sat alone in my office, it quickly became apparent. "Are we going to win?" he asked me. "Will we win with an air campaign alone? Will you get ground troops if you...

"The Ultimate Perfumed Prince" was a nickname reportedly given to General Wesley Clark by those serving under him. David Hackworth first picked up on it during the Kosovo conflict. This first edition of the Perfumed Prince Report (which will be repeated most likely on a weekly basis) has recent and not-so-recent pieces from the blogosphere and beyond on Wesley Clark's past and his present presidential campaign. Feel free to add anything you might have or to submit it for next week's report by sending e-mail to jeff -at- jquinton.com.

<p>September 20, 2003 -- In a disastrous debut, Gen. Wesley Clark yesterday flip-flopped back and forth on the Iraq war - wobbling over the issue that was supposed to be the strongest suit for the latest 2004 Democratic wannabe.</p> <p>A day after Clark raised eyebrows by saying he'd "probably" have voted for the war if he'd been in Congress, the rookie campaigner did a complete about-face and insisted he would "never" have done any such thing.</p>

<p>Bill and Hillary line up behind Wesley Clark.</p> <p>Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>The Democratic presidential campaign has been a bust so far. After nearly a year of campaigning, the only one of the nine announced candidates to catch fire has been Howard Dean, whom party leaders deride as too liberal and too error-prone to beat President Bush. That explains the extraordinary welcome that many Democrats yesterday gave Wesley Clark's announcement that he was joining the presidential race.</p>

Hillary’s Pet Author Explodes & Disappears on the Michael Savage Show December 18, 1999 M. Savage:...Camille Paglia was not really that nice to this book, where she said Gail Sheehy’s gushy new book, Hillary’s Choice, contains enough negatives to prove why Hillary has no business meddling in electoral politics. And then she goes on to confirm that Gail Sheehy confirms that indeed Hillary was the hardliner who refused to settle with Paula Jones. Sheehy claims it was Hillary who pushed the president into bombing Kosovo. And she also implies that, according to this new book Hillary’s Choice, it was Hillary...

For some Republicans, Howard Dean's supremacy among Democratic presidential aspirants -- $10 million expected to be raised in the July-September quarter; a 21-point lead in New Hampshire -- causes merriment. They think a Dean nomination, featuring opposition to the war, enthusiasm for higher taxes and approbation for same-sex civil unions, would mean four more years of what Dean considers the Bush-Ashcroft Terror. Unless Dean wins. Which is unthinkable.

Wesley Clark: General IssuesBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | August 25, 2003                                      PONTEFICATIONS"THE GUY MUST HAVE A BEDROOM AT CNN,” my wife would joke.  It seemed true, because at every hour of the day or night during the Iraq War, retired General Wesley K. Clark could be seen on the Cable News Network as a “military expert” criticizing the Bush Administration. A quick victory in Iraq “was not going to happen,” he told viewers on March 25, shortly  before the quickest blitzkrieg victory of its size in military history occurred.  But his words doubtless brought comfort to the fans of a...

<p>Former NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark said yesterday that he is being drawn into politics and would decide in two to three weeks whether to seek the Democratic presidential nomination.</p> <p>Mr. Clark, interviewed on CNN's "Late Edition," said he had found an "enormous hunger for leadership" as he toured the country.</p>

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...

<p>A General for the Democrats? Are dyspeptic Democrats ready to turn to a military man for leadership?</p> <p>Retired four-star general Wesley Clark, who has been famously opaque about his party preference and political future, met privately last week in New York City with a group of high-rolling Democrats and told them he was seriously considering a run for the White House, sources tell TIME.</p>