Hackworth on Clark

[Clark Can WIN]

Well paint me blue and throw me on the barn floor.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34738

" For sure, he'll be strong on defense. But with his high moral standards and because he knows where and how the game's played, there will probably be zero tolerance for either Pentagon porking or two-bit shenanigans.

No doubt he's made his share of enemies. He doesn't suffer fools easily and wouldn't have allowed the dilettantes who convinced Dubya to do Iraq to even cut the White House lawn. So he should prepare for a fair amount of dart-throwing from detractors he's ripped into during the past three decades.

Hey, I am one of those: I took a swing at Clark during the Kosovo campaign when I thought he screwed up the operation, and I called him a "Perfumed Prince." Only years later did I discover from his book and other research that I was wrong – the blame should have been worn by British timidity and William Cohen, U.S. SecDef at the time.

At the interview, Clark came along without the standard platoon of handlers and treated the little folks who poured the coffee and served the bacon and eggs with exactly the same respect and consideration he gave the biggies in the dining room like my colleague Larry King and Bob Tisch, the Regency Hotel's owner. An appealing common touch.

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[DrBB]

1. That is a powerful endorsement--about Hackworth

Aug. 4, 2003  |  Retired U.S. Army Col. David Hackworth is a cocky American military commander who for half a century was at the front lines of the Army's most important battles. Most recently, though, Hackworth has been at the frontlines of a domestic war: the debate over U.S. military strategy in Iraq, and whether the Bush administration planned well enough to achieve a decisive military victory, and to keep the postwar peace.

Hackworth was everywhere on cable television during the first days of the war, when early military setbacks convinced him and other retired military leaders that the administration, whose backers sold the conflict as a "cakewalk," hadn't sent enough troops to quell Iraqi resistance. He wrote a widely quoted column headlined "Stuck in the quicksand" in early April -- just as the tide seemed to turn and the pace of victory picked up again. Though he is a colonel by rank, Hackworth was counted among the so-called "television generals" the administration blasted after Baghdad fell, and many conservative admirers turned against him.

But now, with American soldiers still dying almost daily in Iraq, the tide of opinion may be turning again, in favor of Hackworth's argument that the administration was unprepared for what's turning out to be a long-term guerrilla resistance in Iraq. Today the primary front of Hackworth's war of opinion isn't cable television, but a pair of Web sites -- Soldiers for the Truth and his own site, Hackworth.com -- where he's campaigning to document the dire fate of U.S. troops in Iraq. The sites have quickly become a repository for the gripes and fears of America's beleaguered combat troops.


From the Salon.com profile:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/08/04/hackworth/index_np.html

This is one of the most powerful voices on our side.

[dobak]

4. thanks for the info!

[dobak]

2. Wow - A great piece!

I cannot believe that WorldNetDaily ran that. They are very conservative.

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Anyone know more about Hackworth?

I know he is one of the most decorated soldiers ever, but what about his political affliation? I heard that he was very opposed to Iraq?

[pocoloco]

3. Hot Damn Hack!!

I was worried about that "perfumed prince" name and it was the only reason I've been a little cautious about Clark. Thanks for clearing that up!! Full speed ahead now!!

[dobak]

5. Interesting?

On the same website, there is a column by Joseph Farrah. In the article, he mentions that Clark is Catholic?

Is that true? I could care less what religion, if any, that he follows. But I had not heard about him being Catholic. I thought that would attract more attention in the media and among fundies (like Farrah).

[Clark Can WIN]

9. Clark was born into a Jewish family

Raised as a Southern Baptist and converted to Roman Catholisism in Vietnam. He is however STRONGLY pro-choice, in an obvious break from that churches doctrine.

[RandomUser]

10. Clark is three different religions

He was raised a Southern Baptist. When he married, he converted to his wife's Catholicism. And he found out after he grew up that his birth father was Jewish. So he understands religious diversity, tolerance, and seeing the other guy's point of view.

[dobak]

11. wow

I did not know that.

He seems to get more interesting and better every day

:-)

[Clark Can WIN]

19. Randomuser in his book

he says he converted to RC in Vietnam. I'm unsure when he got married. Did he get hitched in the states while rehabilitating from his combat wounds?

[RandomUser]

25. He got married during Vietnam

I'm not sure where I read it originally, but I googled and found a few references:

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/cgi-bin/r.cgi/CandidateDetail.html?&CandidateID=4018

His conversion and marriage were both during Vietnam.

[cally]

12. Clark converted to Catholicism when

he married. His father, who died when Clark was young, was Jewish. His mother re-married and Clark was raised Southern Baptist.

[NNN0LHI]

17. I have read that Clarks father and grandfather were both rabbis

Bet Lieberman does not try to label him as being anti-semitic.

Don

[Donna Zen]

26. His father

was an attorney and Dem pol.

[NNN0LHI]

27. I may have misread the article?

I had posted a story here at DU concerning this within another thread. And I really don't feel like doing a search right now. Perhaps tomorrow?

Don

[NNN0LHI]

31. I made a mistake. He actually comes from at least 5 generations of rabbis

http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=4436

Latest contender for president comes from long line of rabbis

By Ron Kampeas
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17--Raised a Southern Baptist who later converted to Roman Catholicism, Gen. Wesley Clark knew just what to say when he strode into a Brooklyn yeshiva in 1999, ostensibly to discuss his leadership of NATO´s victory in Yugoslavia.

"I feel a tremendous amount in common with you," the uniformed four-star general told the stunned roomful of students. "I am the oldest son, of the oldest son, of the oldest son--at least five generations, and they were all rabbis."

The incident could be a signal of how Clark, who became the 10th contender in the Democratic run for the presidency on Wednesday, relates to the Jews and the issues dear to them.

Apparently Clark, 58, revels in his Jewish roots.

He told The Jewish Week in New York, which first reported the yeshiva comment in 1999, that his ancestors were not just Jews, but members of the priestly caste of Kohens.

Clark´s Jewish father, Benjamin Kanne, died when he was 4, but he has kept in touch with his father´s family since his 20s, when he rediscovered his Jewish roots. He is close to a first cousin, Barry Kanne, who heads a pager company in Georgia.

more

[Bread and Circus]

24. I believe he converted to Catholicism....

to marry his wife.

[RandomUser]

6. Nothing like repenting reporters

When a jouranlist who once wrote articles bashing the General now admits he was wrong, you know Clark's the real thing.

[toddzilla]

8. hackworth annoys me

he's always fucking grinning like an idiot no matter what he's talking about..

[coralrf]

21. he never made it past Col....

nuff said.

[QC]

28. How high did you advance?

[karlschneider]

29. So what? Shrub never made it past Lieutenant. But he thinks he's a fuckn

9 star General.
Poo on you.

[TacticalPeek]

32. He crossed the wrong swords.

But he knows his ground, and he still helps the men (a lonely post) even now, over 55 years after he started in Trieste.

[wyldwolf]

7. That just about says it all...

...and maybe it will garner a few rightwing votes... I smell another Bush one term presidency!

[RandomUser]

13. Unless we have another disaster

Unless there's another 9-11 or a new war in Syria/Iran, I think we'll win.

[wyldwolf]

16. I think something like that would seal the deal...

... with approval of the Iraq war dropping like a stone in a pond, another preemptive war wouldn't sell.

And another catastrophie would expose Bush for the ineffective leader that he is.

[Dr Fate]

14. but-but- some one posted an article that said there were "misgivings"..

Remember that- there was an article right here at DU that claimed that certain annonymous military types have "misgivings" about Clark!!!

This article seems to actually names names and actual details, unlike the other...

The media want even us DEMS to think there are "misgivings" about Clark- their lies are staring to be more ridiculous than they are redundant...

[KC21304]

15. This is truly amazing. The hatchet job he did on Clark was

brutal. I can't imagine that Clark would even give him an interview. They must have come to terms some time ago. I am glad to hear it. Clark is a great man.

[MoonRiver]

18. Another salute to the General!

I won't hold Hackworth's past mistakes in judgment against him. He's come clean and fessed up to the facts.

Clark is driving an express train straight to the White House! The Dunce is out; the Will of the People will soon be in! "All aboard!"


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[Clark Can WIN]

20. I almost got a concussion falling over backwards when

he actually said "I was wrong". I guess I'll have to give him this one for being big enough to admit it.

[MoonRiver]

23. I believe that any rational person, concerned about the future of this

American democracy, will see that Gen. Clark is the absolute best hope we have. His poll numbers support what I have believed since the first rumors started circulating that he might run in '04. But by the time he finally announced I had practically given up. Yet now my dream has come true, and Clark is actually an official candidate. OMG, I truly believe that Clark can beat the BFEE!

[coralrf]

22. How to you abbreviate Hackneyed and Worthless?

Hackworth.

[Name removed]

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[TacticalPeek]

33. ROFLMAO!

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