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

To: American Spirit who wrote (679)	11/2/2003 3:42:25 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Schedule Change for Monday's Wireside Chat _______________________ Dear Friends, Due to a scheduling change, The WIRESIDE CHAT WITH GENERAL CLARK is now at 5:00 pm ET / 2:00 pm PT on Monday. General Clark will answer questions from his supporters online. You can participate by logging onto: action.clark04.com As always, thank you for your support and commitment! The Clark for President web team www.Clark04.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (679)	11/2/2003 5:28:53 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

A selection from General Clark's new book, Winning Modern Wars... Message 19458181

To: American Spirit who wrote (679)	11/2/2003 8:33:19 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Clark Campaigns By The Bay nbc11.com POSTED: 2:47 PM PST November 2, 2003 Clark: Attack In Iraq Results From Lack Of Coherent War Plan SAN FRANCISCO -- The deadly downing of a U.S. military helicopter in Iraq shows the Iraqi resistance is growing in strength as U.S. forces continue their occupation of the country "without a real strategy for success," Democrat Wesley Clark said Sunday. Clark, a retired four-star Army general pursuing the Democratic nomination for president, countered Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's comments suggesting that the deaths of 15 soldiers in the attack west of Baghdad were a sad but inevitable consequence of war. Campaigning in San Francisco, Clark called the casualties a result of the Bush administration's failure to develop a coherent plan for the war beyond creating "exciting visuals of U.S. forces advancing into and destroying Saddam Hussein's regime." "The naive optimism of President George W. Bush himself and his administration, that somehow we would be welcomed as liberators, that democracy would blossom overnight, that there would be no resistance, that other states in the region would fall like a string of dominoes under threats of further American action, was just that," Clark said. "It was naive and it was uninformed, and we are paying in American lives and blood for that." Clark argued that while many questions remained about the missile assault that caused the helicopter to crash, the fact that the missiles met their target "represents an escalation" in the capabilities of Iraqi insurgents. He predicted that a more sophisticated enemy will make it more difficult for U.S. troops to move safely around the country, limiting American military options both on the ground and in the air. "There is no reason this won't be repeated," Clark said. "The Iraqi resistance is taking form, strengthening, extending its reach and eliminating those who are cooperating with the United States. It is the difficulty any occupying Army has in a state where they don't speak the language, don't appreciate the cultures and don't have the local roots." Clark said that although foreign terrorists seeking easy ways to attack U.S. forces are playing a role in the resistance, he also blamed Bush for creating "a regional dynamic" that has fueled anti-American sentiment among Iraq's neighbors. Clark, who has opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq, said the president committed the American military in Iraq to distract the American people from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He said the U.S. military effort in Iraq was hampered from the start by too few forces and the wrong kind of troops in place. "It was a case where the so-called 'decisive operations' which the military has planned and worked on for years were less than adequate to achieve the desired end state," he said. "You could defeat the Iraqi armed forces but you did not defeat the resistance that remained in the country, nor set the basis for a peaceful, united Iraqi state." As of Saturday, 360 U.S. service members had died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Defense Department -- and 222 soldiers had been killed on or since May 1, when Bush declared that major combat operations had ended. Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press.

To: American Spirit who wrote (679)	11/3/2003 11:21:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

Don't write off Clark just yet, says Garance Franke-Ruta in The American Prospect: washingtonpost.com <<..."CLARK TAKES THE LEAD IN S.C. This is a big deal -- both for John Edwards, though in a bad way, and for Wesley Clark, who had gone down in several other polls and needed a news boost. Over the past three weeks, Clark has rocketed up to the front of the pack in South Carolina, with 17 percent support, according to a new American Research Group poll. Edwards has spent $600,000 in ads in the state, but only reached 16 percent support in this poll before dropping back to his current 10 percent. Meanwhile Clark, who has only just begun to fight, has lept ahead of him without any advertising at all. Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean were bunched in statistical third in South Carolina, with 8 percent and 7 percent support. "This means we now have polls showing Clark in the lead in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, California, Illinois (among those closely following the race), Wisconsin and nationwide. He's in second place in Arizona and third in New York, where Dean leads. Dean also leads in New Hampshire, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico (though this was a pre-Clark poll) and some polls nationwide. He is tied with or in second to Gephardt in Iowa. Gephardt leads in Illinois. Kerry does not lead anywhere that I've seen. . . . "It's hard not to draw the conclusion from these state polls that Clark is the only one of the candidates banking on making his first strong showing in the Feb. 3 and later primary states who currently looks well positioned to do so, even if he does not yet have state infrastructures and boots on the ground. There's been a lot of chatter in D.C. recently about how the air is going out of the Clark campaign, how Clark is melting, and so on. Even from some of Clark's most ardent supporters. I'm not certain I buy this yet."...>>