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

To: portage who wrote (800)	11/18/2003 11:39:24 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

Setting the Record Straight with General Clark... foxnews.com

To: portage who wrote (800)	11/19/2003 11:55:29 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

Clark offers way to fix trans-Atlantic ties By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Telegraph Staff Wednesday, November 19, 2003 nhprimary.com BEDFORD - Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark proposed a new "Atlantic charter'' for America to mend its relations with European allies. Clark said Tuesday that the next president has to improve relationships that President Bush soured with the war against Iraq and other policies. "I call it a new Atlantic charter," Clark said in remarks to a "Politics and Eggs" breakfast forum sponsored by the New England Council at the Bedford Village Inn. "These relationships have to be built upon trust." Clark is a retired, four-star general who served as supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe. "This is the irreducible minimum to holding together the trans-Atlantic alliance," Clark said, noting that he would provide specifics about his proposal during a scheduled speech in South Carolina today. Clark told the group there is no comparison between the Clinton administration's war in Kosovo and the Bush war against Iraq. "Honestly, they were polar opposites," he said. In Kosovo, the United States tried to use diplomacy before it launched air strikes to stop the ethnic cleansing of more than one million Albanians under the former government of Slobodan Milosovic, Clark said. The Bush administration was bent on removing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power and never wanted the direct involvement of the United Nations because that would pre-empt military conflict, Clark said. "When we began the war (in Kosovo), all diplomatic options had been exhausted. We had a clear plan for what came after the war. Now look at Iraq. The Republican Party talked about taking out Saddam Hussein before it took office," he said. Next month, Clark will go to The Hague to testify in the war crimes trial against Milosovic. Manchester lawyer Wright Danenbarger asked Clark about the two military campaigns, and he liked the answer. "I think he hit it right on the head. There is a big difference," said Danenbarger, a Democrat who wore a Clark sticker but has yet to make up his mind who to support. "I like (Howard) Dean, but I just think Clark is better going up against Bush." Clark said he opposes relying on standardized test scores under the No Child Left Behind Act. "We don't need to end public education, we need to improve it," he said. At one point, Clark stumbled in describing who would be his choice for vice president as "a man who . . ." Clark quickly added "a man or a woman'' after hearing his wife, Gertrude, prompt the candidate while sitting a few feet away. "Let the record reflect my wife caught me first," he said. "Actually, it may have been a simultaneous catch." Hollywood actor David Keith said he is supporting Clark. "It's hard to find somebody who feels the same way I do," he told reporters.