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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (462405)	9/21/2003 4:37:15 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Well I'm thankful no blond bimbo has come forward yet describing everyone in detail, am I allowed to say tail.. Clark: 'I Have Scars All Over My Body' NewsMax Wires Monday, Sept. 22, 2003 General Wesley Clark is smart, ambitious (perhaps overly so), a good diplomat, and a war hero. In a profile in Sunday's New York Times, the paper quotes friends and associates that have followed Clark's career. They suggest he should not be underestimated. The paper reports: # Clark is a true war hero. John Kerry may have won the Silver Star during Vietnam, but he later renounced his decoration. Good soldier Clark also won the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. Clark was wounded four times while patrolling just north of Saigon. "I have scars all over my body," Clark was quoted as saying recently. # Clark is a bureacrat par excellence. He earned his general rank at the young age of 43. "He rose quickly by using his superior intellect and his superior political skills," Joe Lockhart told the Times. # Clark is "obsessively competitive, with a drive to win at everything he does, no matter how meaningless." "He is competitive drinking coffee with you," a senior State Department official said. # He can end-run his bosses and have what some "perceive to be lapses in judgment." "In one attention-getting episode in 1994, he had been advised by the State Department not to meet with Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian-Serb general accused of slaughtering hundreds of civilians in pursuit of ethnic cleansing. General Clark met with him anyway. "General Mladic gave General Clark a bottle of plum brandy and an inscribed pistol; then the two swapped hats and posed for pictures that were splashed all over Europe. Privately, administration officials fumed that being buddy-buddy with General Mladic was 'like cavorting with Hermann Goering.' A Pentagon spokesman was left to explain that there must have been 'a breakdown in communications.'" What others are saying about Clark: Clinton Defense Secretary William J. Perry said of General Clark, "His intellectual horsepower is very impressive." Gen. Paul Funk, who was General Clark's boss in the early 1990's, said, "I find him to be a guy who's very clever at determining which way the wind's blowing. Who knows, maybe in the political world that's a good thing." Maj. Gen. David Grange, who is retired now but who headed the First Infantry Division in Bosnia and Kosovo, said, "It was tenuous at times. He did get into the weeds."