Clark Says U.S. Allies Don't Trust Bush

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The Telegraph Nashua, NH Friday, December 5, 2003

Clark says U.S. allies don’t trust Bush

By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Telegraph Staff [e-mail]

President Bush will be unable to win allied support to send more troops into postwar Iraq because European leaders have lost faith in him, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said Thursday. "I hate to say this, but a lot of it is personal. It is directed against Bush. They won't join with George Bush. They don't trust him," Clark said during an interview with The Telegraph's editorial board. "With the right leadership, we can bring the European allies along (into Iraq). I know them, and I've worked with them. They trusted me," he said.

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The new candidate admits he "goofed" the day after his announcement when he told reporters he would have voted for the resolution. What of the public advice he gave in the fall of 2002 to New Hampshire Democratic congressional candidate Katrina Swett that she support the pro-war resolution? "At the time, I didn't even know what was in the resolution," Clark answered.

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If elected, Clark wants the U.S. government to encourage companies to hire American citizens for high-technology jobs and end incentives to lure foreign citizens into this country on so-called H-1B visas. "Companies should not be able to go to someone in India and say, 'I'm going to triple your pay to $20,000 a year if you come here,' " he said. "How you work that out I would leave to the policy wonks."

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Clark's health-care plan relies on expanding coverage to children and young adults by offering families tax credits on a sliding scale. Anyone without coverage should be able to purchase the same policy shared by members of Congress and federal employees, he said. Clark said a single-payer health-care system is not "politically practical," and he is concerned about central government control.

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