GENERAL CLARK WORE BOSNIAN'S WAR CRIMINAL'S MILITARY CAP
It seems laughable that Conservatives are now looking to drum up scandals involving Wesley Clark. What's next: "GENERAL CLARK FOUND IN SECRET LOVE NEST WITH 12-YEAR-OLD GIRLS!!"?
The reality of the situation in the Balkans was that Clark was required to deal with the Devil- in this case, Bosnian Gen. Ratko Mladic. Clark was never a diplomat. He was a career military officer, a man used to dealing with military men. Diplomacy and the military are about as much alike as Democrats and Republicans. To judge Clark's behavior by diplomatic rules makes absolutely no sense. I would agree that, in hindsight, Clark's being photographed with Mladic was perhaps not the wisest move, but does this make him some sort of war criminal? Give me a break here, willya?
This "issue" is nothing more than a Conservative attempt to grind a man down when they cannot impeach him on anything of substance. Clarks' lack of diplomatic prowess may have limited his ability to attain a higher position, but that hardly is an indictment of his ability to lead.
Memo to those bent on doing a hatchet job on Wesley Clark: spare me the self-righteous indignation over an incident that is hardly worth the attention it is getting. Come back when you have a real issue to discuss. In the meantime, y'all have bigger problems:
The strong support for Clark compared with 13 percent support for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and 11 percent for both Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt. Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman had 10 percent backing. The poll of Democratic voters has a sampling error of plus-or-minus 5 percentage points.
Of the 877 registered voters included in the poll, 49 percent said they would vote for Clark, compared with 46 percent for Bush. Each of the four other major Democratic candidates came within three points of Clark's showing in a hypothetical head-to-head race with the president, the poll found.
If y'all are going to nail someone for lack of leadership, you might start with the man already in the White House. Y'all have bigger problems than Wesley Clark.
