18 August 2003

Clark talks like candidate, bashes Bush, CNN, Sunday, August 17, 2003 Posted: 4:16 PM EDT (2016 GMT) I've always pointed out to my friends at Lucianne.com that Republicans are, in many ways, faux patriots. While the party has been all "hawkish" on the war with Iraq, and even denied the vindication of locating an imminent WMD threat, chant as if their motives involved some great "humanitarian" effort, they were mainly backsliders when it came to the Balkans. Why? Because the President of the United States was a Democrat. Why else would the Republican party wonks drag their feet on an intervention against genocidal slaughter in the center of europe? Read all of the Clark article. But I found the following excerpts facinating: "Wesley Clark, who once served as NATO commander and might have presidential aspirations, attacked the Bush administration Sunday for launching a war with Iraq on "false pretenses" and spreading the military too thin amid the global war on terrorism." "We've made America more engaged, more vulnerable, more committed [and] less able to respond," he said. "We've lost a tremendous amount of goodwill around the world by our actions and our continuing refusal to bring in international institutions." He said that if Iraq "is the centerpiece of the war on terror, it shouldn't be." Bush has dismissed the criticism regarding the statement and other intelligence. "It's just pure politics," Bush said earlier this month. "The American people know that we laid out the facts. We based the decision on sound intelligence. And they also know we've only been there 100 days." "Clark also lashed out at House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican." "Early in the Iraq war, Delay criticized what he called the corps of "blow-dried Napoleons" who appeared on television to analyze the progress of the coalition invasion. Clark was a CNN military analyst during the conflict but no longer works for the network." "When our airmen were flying over Kosovo, Tom DeLay led House Republicans to vote not to support their activities -- when American troops were in combat," Clark said. "To me, that's a real indicator of a man who's motivated not by patriotism or support for the troops but by partisan political purposes." Chicken-hawks indeed. Teddy Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Dubya says: "Shoot off your big mouth and walk with your britches down around your ankles." 4:47:10 AM    comment [] trackback []

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