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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (477360)	10/17/2003 12:45:53 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

SAVE US FROM GEN. WESLEY CLARK the wishy washy General of Waco By Dorothy Anne Seese © 2003 For the most part, all liberals (Democrat, Republican and Green) are a reprehensible bunch to those of us who value safe borders, the rule of law, the founding fathers, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. We're the real conservatives and we have nothing in common with the "neocons" wearing the elephant or the Marxist pimps wearing the donkey (an insult to a fine work animal). But General Wesley Clark hasn't even bothered to change his voter registration in Pulaski County, Arkansas, according to a report filed in Business Week on October 1, 2003. His campaign is two weeks old, and he's been "too busy" to bother with details like re-registering from an independent to a Democrat. Good old wishy-washy General Clark, too busy calculating the support and cash he can garner from Hollyweird and how many "undecideds" he can woo to formally register with the Democratic Party. That fits General Clark to a tee. Few generals if any have made good presidents. In 1952 General Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president and remained in the Oval Office through two terms in which the United States somehow overlooked the USSR's space race until the surprise launch of Sputnik in 1957. All that "shock and awe" over Sputnik, and in spite of the fact that Ike had John Foster Dulles running around the world establishing a basis for the present-day globalism. General Clark hasn't even been a respected general among his colleagues, according to press statements made by General Hugh Shelton -- who said he will not vote for Clark. But Sir Wesley is from Arkansas and he does enjoy the backing of the famous Arkansas travelers, Bill and Hill Clinton. Figures. In fact, it figures a little too well when one looks at George W. Bush's growing vulnerability and Hillary's desire for a "sure thing election" if she decides to run in 2008 or accepts a vice-presidential spot with Clark on the 2004 ticket. Carpetbaggers, the whole lot. It makes one want to run the Confederate battle flag up the pole and see who salutes, because Wesley Clark is in favor of everything that has made the Democratic Party repulsive, a thing with no resemblance even to that Pendergast puppet Truman's donkey party. The connection between Clark and Waco has been popping out in various places. It seems he may not have been on site, but fully informed and cooperating to the fullest with the Clinton-Reno Napalm team that incinerated American citizens and their children for merely exercising weird religious beliefs. So David Koresh was a weird character? If we shoot or incinerate weird characters for weird beliefs, then Hollywood better order a whole lot of fireproofing for the entire area, because they are, by and large, extremely weird. Which is probably why Hollyweird support for General Clark is mounting (no matter he doesn't tend to details or legal matters in a timely fashion). It really appears that I'm going to have to write in my own name on the ballot, but not because I want to be president. My health wouldn't take that high-stress job and my viewpoints would get me shot. All I want to do is write in my own name as my statement that I cannot support either candidate. And that's where things stand and will stand, unless a third party comes up with a dark-horse, charismatic constitutionalist between now and Election 2004. I'd really enjoy seeing all protesting Americans who are sick of the same old cabals in Washington, D.C. write in their own names for president and create a constitutional crisis. Heaven knows we need one! Someone would have to dust off the old frayed document (or a lawbook copy) and find out what this nation is all about. It isn't a nanny state; it isn't an affirmative action country; it isn't an open-borders "citizen of the world" nation. Well, it wasn't until the Bush I reign and then the Clinton era made Lyndon B. Johnson's socialist dream a reality and gave us a nation divided. To find out what this nation really is all about, one needs to read the Declaration of Independence and then the Constitution. The problem is, federalized education has taught that reading is a nonessential and government has told the media what the nation is all about so that the majority of people believe more in Tom Brokaw than in Thomas Jefferson. Most schoolkids today probably do not know who Thomas Jefferson was! Now we have General Wesley Clark to deal with as a prospective presidential candidate. Another liar, another hypocrite, another Clintoon puppet, a callous man after Hillary's own heart, and probably Bubba's too as long as they don't want the same woman at the same time. Oh, I didn't ask about General Clark's sexual orientation. Well, being an analyst of times, trends and events, I don't hob-nob the way reporters for the print press do. Really it doesn't matter, both open liberals and neocons support the gay agenda. I'm interested in seeing what media spin will do for General Clark (and the ubiquitous Clintons) in his campaign for president, and whether he changes his voter registration. After all, there are some details even a retired general has to do to stay within the law -- as if that mattered a bit since Clinton's administration. Welcome to Amerika, General Clark. My kind, constitutional-Americans, want it spelled with a "c" again. You don't cut it any which way it's set to be sliced!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (477360)	10/17/2003 12:47:12 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

kenny, the truth of a person's stupidity will eventually come out. clark a professional soldier did an analysis of the War in Iraq that was idiotic. His analysis was stupid and wrong. If he makes it, it will come out. dems are toast, no ashes in 2004.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (477360)	10/17/2003 12:53:59 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

"The Clinton administration intervened on the assumption that Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic would beg for peace as soon as the first American bombs fell. In fact, he held out for 11 weeks, which was enough time for Serbian forces to carry out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing. Brookings Institution scholar Ivo Daalder, a former Clinton national security aide, said the war had some unanticipated consequences: 1.4 million people expelled, thousands murdered and raped, the expenditure of $10 billion plus, and the worsening of relations with China and Russia.” The long-term results have not been anything to brag about either. The United States still has 2,500 troops in Kosovo, part of a peacekeeping force of 21,000. That’s not enough to make the people there get along any better than before. Once the war was over, the majority Albanian Kosovars, whom we had intervened to protect, began taking vengeance on Serbs and other minorities. Soon, they had driven out more than a quarter of a million people, most of whom fled to Serbia and most of whom are still afraid to go home. Amnesty International recently published a report lamenting conditions four years later. “Minorities in Kosovo continue to be denied access both to their basic human rights, and to any effective redress for violations and abuses of those rights,” it concluded."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (477360)	10/17/2003 12:56:03 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Vain, Pompous, Brown-noser Meet the Real Gen. Clark Anyone seeking to understand the bloody fiasco of the Serbian war need hardly look further than the person of the beribboned Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley K. Clark. Politicians and journalists are generally according him a respectful hearing as he discourses on the "schedule" for the destruction of Serbia, tellingly embracing phrases favored by military bureaucrats such as "systematic" and "methodical". The reaction from former army subordinates is very different. "The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general officer) corps," exclaims one colonel, who has had occasion to observe Clark in action, citing, among other examples, his command of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood from 1992 to 1994. While Clark's official Pentagon biography proclaims his triumph in "transitioning the Division into a rapidly deployable force" this officer describes the "1st Horse Division" as "easily the worst division I have ever seen in 25 years of doing this stuff." Such strong reactions are common. A major in the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado when Clark was in command there in the early 1980s described him as a man who "regards each and every one of his subordinates as a potential threat to his career". While he regards his junior officers with watchful suspicion, he customarily accords the lower ranks little more than arrogant contempt. A veteran of Clark's tenure at Fort Hood recalls the general's "massive tantrum because the privates and sergeants and wives in the crowded (canteen) checkout lines didn't jump out of the way fast enough to let him through". Clark's demeanor to those above is, of course, very different, a mode of behavior that has earned him rich dividends over the years. Thus, early in 1994, he was a candidate for promotion from two to three star general. Only one hurdle remained - a war game exercise known as the Battle Command Training Program in which Clark would have to maneuver his division against an opposing force. The commander of the opposing force, or "OPFOR" was known for the military skill with which he routinely demolished opponents. But Clark's patrons on high were determined that no such humiliation should be visited on their favorite. Prior to the exercise therefore, strict orders came down that the battle should go Clark's way. Accordingly, the OPFOR was reduced in strength by half, thus enabling Clark, despite deploying tactics of signal ineptitude, to triumph. His third star came down a few weeks later. Battle exercises and war games are of course meant to test the fighting skills of commanders and troops. The army's most important venue for such training is the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, where Clark commanded from October 1989 to October 1991 and where his men derisively nicknamed him "Section Leader Six" for his obsessive micro-management. At the NTC, army units face a resident OPFOR that has, through constant battle practice coupled with innovative tactics and close knowledge of the terrain, become adept at routing the visiting "Blue Force" opponents. For Clark, this naturally posed a problem. Not only were his men using unconventional tactics, they were also humiliating Blue Force generals who might nurture resentment against the NTC commander and thus discommode his career at some future date. To the disgust of the junior OPFOR officers Clark therefore frequently fought to lose, sending his men on suicidal attacks in order that the Blue Forces should go home happy and owing debts of gratitude to their obliging foe. All observers agree that Clark has always displayed an obsessive concern with the perquisites and appurtenances of rank. Ever since he acceded to the Nato command post, the entourage with which he travels has accordingly grown to gargantuan proportions to the point where even civilians are beginning to comment. A Senate aide recalls his appearances to testify, prior to which aides scurry about the room adjusting lights, polishing his chair, testing the microphone etc prior to the precisely timed and choreographed moment when the Supreme Allied Commander Europe makes his entrance. "We are state of the art pomposity and arrogance up here," remarks the aide. "So when a witness displays those traits so egregiously that even the senators notice, you know we're in trouble." His NATO subordinates call him, not with affection, "the Supreme Being". "Clark is smart," concludes one who has monitored his career. "But his whole life has been spent manipulating appearances (e.g. the doctored OPFOR exercise) in the interests of his career. Now he is faced with a reality he can't control." This observer concludes that, confronted with the wily Slobodan and other unavoidable variables of war, Clark will soon come unglued. "Watch the carpets at NATO HQ for teeth marks."CP counterpunch.org