Clark Faults Bush over violence in Iraq

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Original URL: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct03/180661.asp

Clark faults Bush over violence in Iraq

It shows president doesn't have strategy, former general argues

By CRAIG GILBERT
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Last Updated: Oct. 28, 2003

Campaigning in Wisconsin for the first time, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said the string of car bombings that convulsed Baghdad on Monday underscored the Bush administration's lack of a strategy for Iraq and its failure to level with the public about the war and its costs.
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Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark greets supporters before a forum on health care Monday at Milwaukee Area Technical College.Quotable
He takes every piece of reality and puts a positive spin on it as though it's something good.

- Wesley Clark,
Democratic presidential candidate, referring to President Bush

Clark had just slipped into a van after a midday event in Milwaukee when a reporter handed him a fresh wire story about Baghdad's worst violence since the end of combat.

"Killed 40," he muttered, reading a headline fragment. "Oh, my God."

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1. Clark is right. Just firing Boykin would have prevented most of this

It's blow back. Their religion is under attack officially now, so it's just going to get worse.