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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (8596)	1/7/2004 8:57:33 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

Clark Comes on Strong in New Poll gallup.com

To: Don Hurst who wrote (8596)	1/7/2004 9:19:50 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

A Powerful Letter To The Editor of The Washington Post... washingtonpost.com Wesley Clark, as General and Candidate Wednesday, January 7, 2004 R. Jeffrey Smith's Dec. 17 front-page article, "Clark's Role in Kosovo Exemplifies His Traits," said that in the spring of 1998, Gen. Wesley K. Clark sent an "unwelcome fax" to the Pentagon seeking to "renew a six-year-old threat of military intervention to protect Kosovo's majority populace." Mr. Smith went on to say, "A year later, Clark got the exercise in 'coercive diplomacy' he had sought, in the form of a bombing campaign that lasted 78 days." That seriously distorts Mr. Clark's role in bringing an end to ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. In 1998 he did not seek a bombing campaign or any other form of military intervention; he merely asked that the threat of military intervention against ethnic cleansing in Kosovo be reaffirmed to put some muscle behind negotiations with Slobodan Milosevic. Mr. Clark was anything but the warmonger Mr. Smith's article portrayed him to be. Rather, he supported and participated in exhaustive diplomatic efforts to avert war, right up until a few days before Mr. Milosevic invaded Kosovo and began systematically killing innocents to force the Kosovar Albanian population out of its homeland. Once that killing began, Mr. Clark stood almost alone among senior defense officials and military leaders in insisting -- correctly and courageously -- that it would be a disaster to stand by and watch another genocidal bloodbath take place unchallenged in the center of Europe. JAN M. LODAL McLean The writer was principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy from 1994 to 1998.