Guy who called Clark "perfumed prince" now an unabashed Clark fan

[kerry-is-my-prez]

He said that he initially thought Clark was bad news. THEN he found out several years later (after doing research) that he had been wrong about Clark. He now blames William Cohen.


http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Frontlines/Clark.htm
By David H. Hackworth

General Wesley Clark for President of the USA

....I never served with Clark. But after spending three hours interviewing the man for Maxim’s November issue, I’m impressed. He is insightful, he has his act together, he understands what makes national security tick – and he thinks on his feet somewhere around Mach 3. No big surprise, since he graduated first in his class from West Point, which puts him in the super-smart set with Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur and Maxwell Taylor. TOP

Clark was so brilliant, he was whisked off to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar ..... He says he now wants to lead America out of the darkness, shorten what promises to be the longest and nastiest war in our history and restore our eroding prestige around the world.
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. TOP

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 .... if he wins the election, don’t expect an Andrew Jackson field-soldier type. Clark’s an intellectual, and his military career is more like Ike’s – that of a staff guy and a brilliant high-level commander. Can he make tough decisions? Bet on it. Just like Ike did during his eight hard but prosperous years as president.

[grannylib]

1. Any idea what the "other research" was? I would be interested in

looking into this further; I am at the moment leaning toward Clark but have some concerns over issues that have been brought up by those opposed to him.

[LTR]

2. Go here

http://www.clarkmyths.com

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. This is all I've run across so far....

Sorry - I didn'realize xomeone had posted something to me. How does one keep track of people who are responding to you?

http://centristcoalition.com/blog/clark/archives/000129.html

Hackworth was speaking to the English General's timidity as well as Tony Blair's, William Cohen's, General Shelton's and Bill Cllinton's. Russia openly aided the Serbs the whole time NATO was bombing them. Clark was not reckless. You have to understand that he was given a mission to stop the ethnic killings and he was acting as any good General should have acted, and then some. He had to continually negotiate with 19 nations on every target he bombed.

After NATO finally realized victory the Russsians sent in a measley 200 troops and took over that Kosavo airport . Clark told Jackson, the timid English General, to take in some troops via helicopter and stop any further Russian incursion. Jackson refused and took it to Blair. Blair took it to Clinton, they all backed down leaving Wes to hang out to dry.

-snap-

Hackworth called Clark a "Perfumed Prince" because he thought ( as I did as well ) that Wes was just another political general who backed down in a crisis. After he learned the truth of the matter, like any honorable man, he publically said he'd made an error.

Posted by: Charles Munn at September 28,

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. In the right hand corner of a post

you see.... this......Fri Jan-09-04 07:26 AM
Response to Reply #1

I looks at the little lines. If a line in the left is going to YOUR post, it's a response to you. :)

[deminflorida]

3. Go Hack!

That's it...won't be any more Clark was fired, Clark has integrity issues, Clark was wrong on Kosovo....

Hackwork is probably the most respected of all the Military analysts and experts in the country. He's used by CNN, FOX, MSNBC all the big name cable news broadcasts. He would be the last guy based on his network affiliations that I would have expected to come out for Clark.

And just to add to this, not only will Hugh Shelton stop making groundless allegations against Clark, but the Dean camp better burn any fliers they may be constructing concerning issues surrounding Kosovo, it'll never hold water now.

Hackworth has just blown out of the water every spin machine that could have been used concerning Clark's military service.

This one is really good:

"Can he make tough decisions? Bet on it. Just like Ike did during his eight hard but prosperous years as president."

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. This isn't going to mean a damn thing

to the anti-clark people. Clark has to go down for their guy to win. None of the bashes will stop until Clark is the nominee. :(