from "Dude, Where's My Country?", p.210-213, By Michael Moore, written before September '03...
"Many months ago, in the days leading up to the Iraq
invasion, I was flipping through the channesls and I
came across a general talking on CNN. Assuming this
was just another one of those talking ex-miltary heads
who had sprung up all over our networks, I was ready
to keep flipping. But he said something that caught my
ear, and I continued to listen. He was actually
questioning the wisdom of Bush attacking Iraq. Long
before it came out the Bush & Co. were purposefully
deceiving the American people about "weapons of mass
destruction" in Iraq, he was questioning whether, in
fact, Iraq was a true threat to the United States.
Whoa. Who was this guy?
His name was Wesley Clark. Gen. Wesley Clark. First
in his class at West Point, a Rhodes Scholar at
Oxford, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, and a
Democrat from Arkansas...
...He is pro choice and a strong advocate for women's
rights...He is against the Bush tax cut...He is
against Patriot Act II and wants the first one
re-examined...He is for gun control...He is for
affirmative action...His pro-environment...He favors
working with our allies instead of pissing them off...
So, here's my question to the lame-o Democrats: Why
the hell aren't you running this guy? Is it because he
might WIN? Yeah, how bizarre would that be - a winner!
Don't want to try that do you?
Well, if I were looking for a strategy to beat Bush
the deserter, I'd run a friggin' four-star general
against him! ...Clark has been awarded the Silver Star,
Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. Thanks to the British and the Dutch,
he's also got a couple of honorary knighthoods!
..If it takes a pro-choice, pro-environment general
who believes in universal health care and who thinks
war is never the first answer to a conflict, if that
is what it takes to remove these bastards and do the
job the Democrats should have done in 2000 -- then
that is what I am prepared to do." |
