Wesley Clark Slams GOP On Defense

[savalez]

Source: TPM

Democrats have three words for Republican presidential candidates who attack President Obama as weak on defense in Tuesday’s foreign policy debate: Osama Bin Laden.

Three of the leading military minds in the party, former NATO Commander General Wesley Clark, former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, and retired Major General Paul Eaton, lit into the Republican field at a press conference in Washington for their shifting positions and made clear that Obama’s military achievements — including the Al Qaeda leader’s death — will be fair political game in 2012.

“I think he is remarkably strong,” Danzig said of Obama’s national security record. “The more this election is about security issues the more advantageous that is to this president.”

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“While President Obama has kept his promises across the globe, the leading Republicans have been all over the map, offering sound-bite critiques and shifting positions with every change in the headlines as they seek partisan advantage,” Clark said.


Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/democratic-ex-military-leaders-slam-gop-on-defense.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

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Take that republican clown car of candidates.

[bluestateguy]

1. Obama got Osama

OBAMA. GOT. OSAMA.

[givemebackmycountry]

2. And Der Monkey did not, even though he had YEARS to do it.

Der Monkey.
He's Albert Fucking Einstein compared to the current field of knuckleheads.

[SKKY]

14. To me, it's not that Obama got Osama that's important...

...it's how he did it, and what he risked to do so. Going into the Pakistani military back yard to pull out this guy they were obviously protecting, or to pull the trigger on an operation that had so many opportunities for failure, THAT is what separates Obama from everyone else. Can you imagine how badly it would have looked if that particular mission had failed? If you want to know the difference between Obama and the clowns that were running the show before, just do a quick study of the differences between Abottabad and Faluja. Giant, coconut-sized balls of steel he must have to make that decision.

[bluestateguy]

15. And guess who they would blame if it had failed

The troops? The generals? The intel people?

No, they would direct the blame to the Commander in Chief, just as they did to JFK after Bay of Pigs, Carter with his failed hostage rescue and Clinton after Blackhawk Down.

And I suspect that Obama being the gentleman that he is would have accepted full responsibility.

[elleng]

3. Also at WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/gen-wes-clark-set-to-pound-romney-on-foreign-policy/2011/11/21/gIQAp5aciN_blog.html?tid=sm_btn_fb

[DonCoquixote]

4. Let's see how much China

dumps into GOP election ocffers, after all, let's face it, GOP foreign polices are golden to them, as they place incompetents in charge.

[Grassy Knoll]

5. News Flash: Misinformed FOX Viewers.......

Discredit Wesley Clark as a Hack General who drinks Obama Kool-Aid.
Pubic-Cons can be smelt a mile away. Film at 5pm.

[savalez]

6. They are not

voting for him anyway, so who cares what they think (that is, if they do think).

[Richardo]

7. Nice to see the General again...

...hope he's a constant presence in the next year. :patriot:

[elleng]

8. Hope so too, Richardo.

[thelordofhell]

9. I think he would make a good Secretary Of State

If Hillary decides to not keep doing it

[elleng]

10. Had fingers crossed for Sec. Def or Sec State,

or Nat. Security Advisor, but Prez O disappointed me in that respect.

[marasinghe]

16. agree totally. General Wes Clark would have been such a refreshing change.

instead of the bush-bot Gates continuing to recycle the same old poison into the Obama admin.;
and then another tired old place-holder, Panetta, who never had an original idea in his life.

the disappointments never stop coming from this White House.

[The Wizard]

11. Note to Repubes

Fuck with Wes Clark at your own risk. He'll beat the shit out of you.

[shireen]

12. so great to hear from Wes Clark again!

I miss him.

[elleng]

13. Was on Lawrence show, w Lawrence Wilkerson, re: repug debate tonite.

:hi: