Is Wesley Clark Truly An Anti-War Candidate?

[BJ]

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-antiwar.html

MEDIA ADVISORY:

Wesley Clark: The New Anti-War Candidate?
Record Shows Clark Cheered Iraq War as "Right Call"

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Months before the invasion, Clark's opinion piece in Time magazine (10/14/02) was aptly headlined "Let's Wait to Attack," a counter-argument to another piece headlined "No, Let's Not Waste Any Time." Before the war, Clark was concerned that the U.S. had an insufficient number of troops, a faulty battle strategy and a lack of international support.(emphasis added, BJ)
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On the question of Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction, Clark seemed remarkably confident of their existence. Clark told CNN's Miles O'Brien that Saddam Hussein "does have weapons of mass destruction." When O'Brien asked, "And you could say that categorically?" Clark was resolute: "Absolutely" (1/18/03). When CNN's Zahn (4/2/03) asked if he had any doubts about finding the weapons, Clark responded: "I think they will be found. There's so much intelligence on this."
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In another column the next day (London Times, 4/11/03), Clark summed up the lessons of the war this way: "The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact."(emphasis added, BJ)
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[TakebackAmerica]

1. Where did this come from?

The GOP's website!

[BJ]

2. Why don't you click the link?

Personally, and it is presumptuous, in fact Limbaugh-esque, to attribute thoughts, or words, for another person, especially one who has passed on, but I really don't think Senator Wellstone would support Gen. Clark for President.

Do you?

[renie408]

3. This is pretty

widely known. They were talking about it on one of the news channels yesterday. And I am pretty sure it got mentioned during the NPR piece on him today.

[Lefty48197]

4. The article is a discredited smear

The "right call" quote was taken entirely out of context. The article doesn't warrant any more discussion in this website. This is about the 9th time it's been posted.