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Politics : Wesley Clark -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TARADO96 who wrote (634)	10/22/2003 3:15:28 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 1414

That's politics...

To: TARADO96 who wrote (634)	10/22/2003 3:21:21 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 1414

T. That is the exact reason America's Best and the Brightest rarely run for political office. Don

To: TARADO96 who wrote (634)	10/22/2003 11:39:23 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

<<...This guy risked his own life to save others in battlefield and has 4 bullets to show for it. I am talking about a real life hero...>> Yup Clark is a real war hero...Bush has NEVER seen a battlefield and has lied to take our country into a reckless and expensive war in Iraq -- Clark would NEVER have provided that type of Enron style management...Why are we sacrificing hundreds of our young soldiers and tens of billions of American tax dollars...? Where was the 'imminent threat' over in Iraq...? The Pullitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh wrote an intersting article that is in the latest issue of The New Yorker... newyorker.com <<...The point is not that the President and his senior aides were consciously lying. What was taking place was much more systematic—and potentially just as troublesome. Kenneth Pollack, a former National Security Council expert on Iraq, whose book “The Threatening Storm” generally supported the use of force to remove Saddam Hussein, told me that what the Bush people did was “dismantle the existing filtering process that for fifty years had been preventing the policymakers from getting bad information. They created stovepipes to get the information they wanted directly to the top leadership. Their position is that the professional bureaucracy is deliberately and maliciously keeping information from them. “They always had information to back up their public claims, but it was often very bad information,” Pollack continued. “They were forcing the intelligence community to defend its good information and good analysis so aggressively that the intelligence analysts didn’t have the time or the energy to go after the bad information.” The Administration eventually got its way, a former C.I.A. official said. “The analysts at the C.I.A. were beaten down defending their assessments. And they blame George Tenet”—the C.I.A. director—“for not protecting them. I’ve never seen a government like this.”...>>