Clark Emerging as an opponent of Reaganism (PNAC is pissed!)

[robbedvoter]

http://daily.nysun.com/Default/Client.asp?skin=NYSun&Daily=NY
> CLARK EMERGING AS AN OPPONENT OF REAGANISM
>
> Candidate Derides Committee That Crafted Cold War Victory
>
> By IRA STOLL Staff Reporter of the Sun
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> General Wesley Clark, the late entry into the race for the Democratic nomination for
president, is making what critics called a bizarre,crackpot attack on a small Washington policy
organization and on a citizens group that helped America win the Cold War.
> In a Tuesday interview with Joshua Micah Marshall posted yesterday on the Web site
talkingpointsmemo.com, General Clark gave his evaluation of the Clinton presidency. He said
that the Clinton administration,in an odd replay of the Carter administration, found itself
chained to the Iraqi policy promoted by the Project for a New American Century much the
same way that in the Carter administration some of the same people formed the Committee
on the Present Danger which cut out from the Carter administration the ability to move
forward on SALT II.
> The Project for a New American Century is a Washington-based nonprofit organization
whose chairman is William Kristol and that advocates a Reaganite foreign policy of military
strength and moral clarity. The Committee on the Present Danger was a bipartisan group
created to defeat the Salt II arms control agreement between America and the Soviet Union.
> snip
> It's really a little bit crackpot. I don't think Clinton was really following the PNAC script, Mr.
Kristol told The New York Sun. We called for regime change. Last I looked, Saddam was still
there when Clinton left.
> snip
> A director of the Project for a New American Century, Randy Scheunemann, called General
Clark's comments bizarre.
> The Clinton administration was on the verge of cutting a deal with Saddam, said Mr.
Scheunemann, a former foreign policy aide to Senators Dole and McCain. If they would have
followed the Iraq policy of PNAC, they would have empowered the Iraqi opposition instead of
going around denigrating it."
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[pansypoo53219]

1. excellent

we must permanently expunge the PNAC.

[Flying_Pig]

3. Yes we must, and from the Democratic Party as well....

Far too many congressional Democrats (and some of the presidential candidates) support PNAC, vis-a-vis their allies AIPAC/JDL/JINSA. All have the same goals.

[Kahuna]

4. We've been talking about this on DU for the longest...

We've said that all of our politicians have know for years about these PNACers and have stood by and done nothing.

General Clark who is the only candidate to come along and directly challenge them and hold them responsible is being crucified by some who profess <sic> to Democrats. Pathetic.

[bemildred]

2. When they call it "bizarre" it means they don't want to

examine it seriously, which means that it is to some degree
true and damaging. Mr Clark, whatever his other faults or
virtues, would have been in a position to know about this.

Remember the lunatic Ms McKinney and her ridiculous assertions
about government forewarning of the 9/11 debacle?

If I were Mr. Clark, I would be careful about my travel arrangements,
especially commercial flights and small planes.