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August 12, 2003
Clark | General Clark Poised to Join President Race

So say the IHT:

In the strongest signal yet that General Wesley Clark, the former NATO commander, is planning to join the Democratic presidential race, Clark told volunteers last week to step up their efforts and prepare for an announcement in early September.

If Clark, 58, who is retired from the army, does take on the nine announced Democratic candidates, supporters say he would offer a strong voice on national security issues and sell himself as a newcomer untainted by the political process.



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Yabbut — didn’t a bunch of the NeoCon weenies say Clark was a Communist just a while ago?

Posted by: Don at August 12, 2003 11:31 PM

The sound bytes from the Iraq war will make great copy… watching him eat crow… how could a General be such a pussy.

Chasing his 15”… kinda sad… but so are the 9 riders of the Democolypse so why not join in?

Posted by: DANEgerus at August 13, 2003 01:13 AM

General G. Wesley Clark was in the Air Force, not the Army.

Posted by: Jonathan at August 13, 2003 10:36 AM

He sheared his wings off, and about to make a dead-stick landing.

Posted by: Cap'n SPIN at August 13, 2003 11:35 AM

Being a commander at NATO will crush him if he runs. The majority of the nation looks down at NATO because it was against the Iraq war. Bush would win a landslide victory over Clark.

Posted by: John at August 13, 2003 03:31 PM

Actually Clark was in the army. He commanded a mech infantry company in Vietnam. I believe he commanded the 1st Cav for a while. I dont like the guy buy he earned his medals.

So are they going to run Dean, Gephardt, or Clark?
Or should I say McGovern, Mondale, or McClellan?

Posted by: Mark Buehner at August 13, 2003 03:32 PM

Clark thinks we should have conducted the Afghan campaign as a NATO operation.

I used to maintain a blog, which gave up as I wasn’t able to blog with any consistency. But I will steal from myself to heap some well deserved ridicule on this idea:

In Afghanistan, the future of the French government in no way depended on the success of the campaign. How would France have behaved? First, they would have demanded a “comprehensive plan” (We didn’t have one. We made it up as we went along, because we needed to.) We would have been delayed for months. We would still probably be there, held up from advancing on Kandahar as the French would demand the withdrawal of the Northern Alliance from Kabul pending an international conference on Afghan reconciliation and giving “one last chance for peace” to the Taliban. And in the meantime, many more American troops would have been killed. No American president, not even Clinton, would have signed on to that nightmare. And if we had? France would be our buddy on Iraq? Spare me.

Clark omits one widely cited quote from a NATO defence minister regarding the nightmare of coordination than the Kosovo campaign required: “We never want to do this again”. Apparently Clark is still up for it. “Strong voice on national security issues” my ass!

Posted by: lewy14 at August 13, 2003 04:17 PM

http://www.almartinraw.com/public/column106.html The
Ambassador Wilson Affair: The End of Karl Rove And George
Bush? (Sep 2) This is the hottest and most explosive story
behind the scenes in Washington in terms of how it could
affect the Bush administration.

Ambassador Joseph Wilson has been turning up the heat in
this situation. He revealed on Friday August 29 in a symposium
in Washington the person in the Bush administration, who had
leaked it out to the Washington Post (NOVAK) that Wilson s
wife is a CIA agent of 26 years. As a consequence of this
leak, her entire team of overseas assets were liquidated.

The leaker, it turns out, was none other than the notorious
Karl H. Rove, Bush s so-called White House advisor. Ambassador
Wilson identified him as Karl Roverer, with the umlaut over
the o

According to reliable sources, as well as our own Al Martin
Raw.com investigation, Karl Rove is, in fact, the grandson of
Karl Heinz Roverer, the gauleiter of Mecklenburg, who was also
a partner and senior engineer of Roverer Sud-Deutche
Ingenieurb ro AG. They built Birchenau, the concentration camp
in Nazi Germany.

So Karl Rove has been identified as the leaker responsible
for the deaths of more than 70 CIA assets overseas (See
previous story Will the Real Chemical Ali Please Stand Up? The
Curious Case of Ambassador Joseph Wilson)

When Ambassador Wilson was asked how he knew it was Rove,
he had documents in his possession identifying Rove as the
leaker from a secret investigation of the State Department s
Internal; Security Unit. It was a from a small clique, four
Clinton holdovers in that department of the State Department
that were sympathetic to what had happened to Wilson.

These investigations could not have possibly been made
without at least the tacit acquiescence of Secretary of State
Colin Powell.

Wilson has announced that he will have his private
attorneys petition the Department of Justice demanding that
Roverer a/k/a Karl Rove be prosecuted under the 1982
Intelligence Identity Protection Act . This law specifically
supposed to prevent what has happened in this case and that is
the Bush administration attempting to retaliate against a
senior government official who tells the truth about that
administration by revealing the identities of intelligence
members within their own families.

This is a law that was specifically designed to prevent
this from happening. It is a law that was proffered by the
Democrats in 1982 that the Republicans fought and could not
defeat. The law carries an automatic mandatory 10 years to
life imprisonment as punishment.

And where would Rove go? Karl Rove, it should be noted, is
a dual citizen of the United States and Germany. Because of
his position he has special diplomatic status. The idea is
that if its absolutely necessary he could go to Switzerland
where he couldn t be extradited.

The law specifically states in this case (and this depends
on how much Secretary of State Colin Powell is prepared to get
involved, if he signs a formal complaint from the State
Department, then the Attorney General has no choice but to
prosecute. He is required to prosecute, even if he doesn t
want to do so.

This is very explosive and what makes it so explosive is
that this Intelligence Identity Act, if it can be proved, and
Rove can be successfully prosecuted and if Rove reveals that
the president George Bush told him to institute this leak,
then the President’s automatic shield of immunity is removed
and the president himself can be prosecuted for murder if any
deaths of any US intelligence agents or assets resulted from
the leak. This is the only legal statute that has this
provision.

The Bush Administration is exerting enormous pressure on
Colin Powell because he is the real linchpin. They are
exerting pressure on him NOT to proceed to file a formal
complaint with the Department of Justice

Wilson s problem is that he has no greater legal standing
than that of a private citizen. The Department of Justice,
unbeknownst to anybody, has had a lot of communications with
Wilson s attorney and they re claiming that Wilson has no
special status, that he’s just an everyday citizen, so that
any demand he would make for prosecution would carry no more
weight than a private citizen or OFU.

OFU is George Bush Senior s term to describe the average
American citizen. It stands for One Fodder Unit.

Wilson is saying, however, that when Rove leaked this out,
he was still formally employed by the State Department.
Wilson, it should be remembered, was the former ambassador
during the Clinton Regime, was formally rehired, and he
received a paycheck from the Department of State. When these
leaks took place he still had another three weeks left on his
contract. Therefore he was still a United States Ambassador
and that apparently is also a key legal point. When this goes
before the US Court of Appeals in Washington and if the court
agrees that Wilson was a formal ambassador at the time, then
Colin Powell can not refuse to formally petition the
Department of Justice for the prosecution of Karl Rove and to
open an investigation into the president s and vice president
s role in the affair.
Was Rove really the source of the leak? The investigation
held thus far by the State Department s Internal Security
(ISD) has stated that Rove did indeed leak the information out
about the Ambassador s wife, CIA agent Valerie Wilson, to the
Washington Post. Apparently they have an affidavit from the
reporter he leaked it to.

The way the Bush Regime is trying to quash it is to slow it
way down by exerting so much pressure against Pro-Bush Media.
Please note that you have not heard one word about this on CNN
or MSNBC or Fox News And not one word about this on ABC, CBS,
or NBC.

If there is no public attention, there will be no steam
behind it. Some of the congressmen are trying to push this
into higher quarters. They re trying to get Howard Dean to
talk about it since he s getting so much press coverage

It s been said that Dean is himself frightened to start
talking about it because it would diminish the press coverage
he s been getting. The Bush Administration has let it be known
to the Democratic National Committee that any Democrat who
tries to push this will find press coverage severely limited.
When the Democratic presidential selection process filters out
(since there are now nine declared Democrats) and when there
is one Democrat that everyone is behind, who s going to be the
contender, then they won t be so frightened.

But this is a story, which should be more widely known,
since the treatment of Ambassador Wilson and his family (not
to mention the US intelligence assets who were liquidated
overseas) is certainly one of the most egregious abuses of
power yet perpetrated by the Bush administration.

Posted by: T. at September 3, 2003 11:38 AM

“Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson admitted
Monday morning that he fabricated a key part of his
allegation that the White House deliberately blew his
wife’s cover as a CIA weapons analyst.

Wilson has accused top Bush political strategist
Karl Rove of leaking the name to columnist Robert Novak,
telling a Seattle audience last month that he wanted
“to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched
out of the White House in handcuffs.”

But he told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that
he got “carried away” and made up the Rove allegation
out of thin air.

from http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/9/29/143328.shtml

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