Clark Credits Clinton for Ghadafy Breakthrough

NewsMax.com ^ | 12/22/03

[Headfulofghosts]

Clark Credits Clinton for Ghadafy Breakthrough

Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark said Sunday that his old boss Bill Clinton - not President Bush - deserved credit for forcing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to abandon his weapons of mass destruction programs, even though Gadhafi's turnaround came nearly three years after Clinton had left office.

"It's a program of squeezing Libya that's gone on for more than a decade," Clark told a Derry, New Hampshire audience, according to the Concord Monitor. "The Clinton administration was very much involved with this."

In a slap at Bush, Clark said, it "shows that you don't need to use force to get your way in world affairs," adding that Prime Minister Tony Blair deserved credit for the Ghahafi breakthrough as well.

The retired general added new details to his charge that President Bush was responsible for leaving America vulnerable to the 9/11 attacks, saying that President Clinton tried to warn Bush about Osama bin Laden but Bush wouldn't listen.

"He wasn't paying attention," Clark complained. "He didn't do his job as commander and chief."

The former NATO commander said that Bush deserves to be "fired" for not doing more to prevent 9/11.

"This is the way it works in the Navy, if you're the captain of a ship, and it runs aground, they only ask two questions: Did it run aground, and were you the captain?" he explained. "If the answer is yes to both, you're fired."

Though Clark has repeatedly pounded away at the theme that Bush is responsible for 9/11, reporters have yet to ask him about President Clinton's confession last year that he turned down a deal for bin Laden's arrest in Sudan.

[sunryse]

I think Clark is just another mouth piece the Clintons are using to get some Bush bashing in the media.

[sarasmom]

" I haven't seen the skunk (B.C.) on TV since we acquired Saddam either, anyone else notice that?"

Notice we are at Orange?
Yeah, people notice things all the time...

[#3Fan]

The former NATO commander said that Bush deserves to be "fired" for not doing more to prevent 9/11. "This is the way it works in the Navy, if you're the captain of a ship, and it runs aground, they only ask two questions: Did it run aground, and were you the captain?" he explained. "If the answer is yes to both, you're fired."

By this standard, Clinton should've been fired at the 1993 WTC attack.

[ladyinred]

Get the net!

[#3Fan]

Clinton...so much squeezing, so little time. Depends on the meaning of 'Libya."

There's a girlfriend I never heard of. Was Libya before or after Monica?

[cyncooper]

Has it occurred to Wesley Clark that since Hillary wants to run in 2008 WITHOUT there being an incumbent Democrat, that means she's endorsed Clark as the one she expects to lose?

I'm sure he is aware of "the plan". He appears to be perfectly amenable to the clintonian plot and play the willing tool.

[cyncooper]

That sums it up quite nicely.

[Howlin]

He appears to be perfectly amenable to the clintonian plot and play the willing tool.

He's really beginning to worry me; lie upon lie, and he doesn't seem to have to "pay" for his lies. This latest one, about being asked to be Dean's VP, is an out and out lie and nobody seems willing to say it on national TV.

Bothersome, IMO.

[Finalapproach29er]

Like Clinton,went to Oxford and from Little Rock. Explains a lot.

[cyncooper]

Maybe they're all afraid of what will happen if they press this obvious psycho too much.

The mind reels at the thought of one of our guys going around brazenly lying like that and how fast the media would make sure they were removed from the national stage and quick. And we'd be holding the door, too!

My theory as to his willingness is he's been promised something to go out and deliver the Clinton legacy spin and these obvious lies are just evidence of his mental imbalance as well as evidence of his susceptibility to unethical cajoling since he must have done a thing or two that can be used against him (Shelton's remarks hint at such).

[Walkingfeather]

an absolute lunatic.

[Finalapproach29er]

The whole country should see that picture. AS disgusting as Maddy the hotal maid clinking glasses with the N. Korean leader.

[jerry639]

The Clintons sure recruited a useful idiot this time. Clark is a Total Idiot! Have to say he isn't much worse than the rest of the Dim candidates. Whine and complain is all they know how to do. How about some sane ideas from all the Dim candidates, instead of telling us what they think President Bush is doing wrong?

[mystery-ak]

My hubby warned me about this POS some time ago...I realize now what he was talking about and why the mlitary hates his guts.

[CWOJackson]

Of course Clinton deserves the credit for this...and Jimmie Caster defeated the Soviet Union.

[StriperSniper]

Nevermind that running aground could be the preferred thing to do in a situation where you are sinking.

[MontanaBeth]

Hi Pete! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.

[Happy2BMe]

"The whole country should see that picture. AS disgusting as Maddy the hotal maid clinking glasses with the N. Korean leader."

Uh - hum!

Didn't Clunkton initiate the "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" liberation campaign?

Wasn't Clark promoted to NATO commander under Clinton?

(You don't wanna hear the next question . ..)

FLOOD READY WESLEY CLARK ?

HE LOOKS, SITS AND ACTS GAY!

[Happy2BMe]

"Clark is a Total Idiot!"

Promoted by his boss - Bill Clinton.

How would you have liked to have served under the likes of either one of these pukebuckets while in uniform?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Bush deserves to be "fired"

Wasn't Clark fired?