Ret. Army Gen. Wesley Clark blasts Bush's Iraq Policy (on FOX)

[Blue State Bandit]

Retired Army General Wesley Clark presents Fox's Neil Cavuto with a clear explanation of the main problems with Bush's policy on Iraq and his track record on improving National Security.

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CAVUTO: Let me ask you, General, the folk we're fighting in Iraq right now, if we weren't fighting them in Iraq right now, where would they be?

CLARK: A lot of those folks wouldn't be fighting at all because what we did is, we incentivized a whole generation of young radical people to come and defend Islam against the United States. That the foreign terrorists that are there. Anywhere from a 1000 to 2000.

CAVUTO: So General, who incentivized the U.S.S. Cole attack? Who incentivized the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center?

CLARK: You changed the question... you changed the question. We did not have to attack Iraq. What we could have done is focused on Afghanistan and finished the job in Afghanistan but, Neil, we didn't do that. You realize, when we went into Afghanistan, we left Afghanistan again in a few months. We left 8000 combat troops there. We did none of the reconstruction. We didn't help the Afghan people recreate their economy. It had been devastated by the Soviets.
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Video and transcripts from RawStory

[Wesin04]

1. This is what a smackdown looks like

Great going, General Clark. Didn't miss a point.

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[Diego360]

3. Bush the Elder

with his own Middle East adventure. Also Reagan's cutting and running in Beirut.

Welcome to DU and Enjoy your stay!

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[seabeyond]

7. no one has suggested cutting and running. do provide a link n/t

[donco6]

4. Neil? Is that you?? eom

[seabeyond]

5. they were caught, put on trial and ring broken up. better than bush

sittin with the info on cole on the desk to only ignore and still bin laden not caught. wouldnt you say?

[Nevernose]

8. Clark is downright Clintonesque (and in a good way)

Clinton's fortee was boiling down comlex issues into easy to understand language. He's start off talking about some poor woman in Mt. Ida, Arkansas, continue with an Oxfordian rant about the socioeconomic flux in Togo and the repercussions throughout the Pacific (and how it affected YOU), and then finish with a story about a dog.

And, afterwards, even people who didn't go to Oxford could understand it.

Clark has that ability, too. Maybe good enoughMaybe it's an Arkansas thing :). No offense to John Edwards, but I wish Clark had taken the job of vice-presidential candidate a couple of years ago.

Clark is good. Really good. Mybe good enough to beat McCain in 2008, and I really can't think of anyone else w/ that potential.