Posted on 01/09/2004 8:31:12 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark is promising that if he's elected president he'll guarantee that America won't be attacked again the way it was on Sept. 11, 2001 - even though he recently admitted that when he was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO he did nothing to stop the first 9/11 attack.
"If I'm president of the United States, I'm going to take care of the American people," Clark told the Concord Monitor on Friday.
"Nothing is going to hurt this country, not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way."
However, just five days ago, when the former NATO commander was asked what he did to prevent the first 9/11, he told "Meet the Press" that stopping bin Laden wasn't his job.
"The information [we had on bin Laden] was coming out of the Central Command area," said Clark. "What my responsibility was, was to take the measures in my area."
In fact, the White House hopeful confessed that what he and other Clinton generals did to counter al Qaeda pretty much amounted to all talk and no action.
"We did have threats by Osama bin Laden," he told host Tim Russert. "We were under high alert starting in late summer of '98 . . . We had continuing discussions on this at our commanders' conferences with the Secretary of Defense."
Still, despite his own sorry record on fighting terrorism, Clark told the Monitor that President Bush's negligence contributed to 9/11.
"I think [9/11] could have been prevented . . . I think it can be prevented again if we have the right leadership. That's me. I will protect America."
Hear Clark's former boss explain how he blew a chance to take Osama bin Laden into custody.
But of course, he wouldn't do that.
He was in need of extra cash and was moonlighting on informercials as Miss Cleo!!!!!!!!
"Nothing is going to hurt this country, not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way."
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Wow! He can control all variables in the future? Why was he EVER fired as NATO Commander then?
He will be excused from any, and all watches, by "we the people" who, after all, are the supreme watch commanders.
I believe him, he has Mickey Mouse on his watch...
No, just uninformed. If a fanatic is determined to burst through and make a very bloody splash, and doesn't care about sensibilities, he stands a fair chance of succeeding. There was absolutely no way in the world to have prevented the first plane from crashing into the World Trade Center, even if the threat had been publicized as much as an hour before the fact. In the first place, the threat was considered to be so implausible at the time, it would not have been treated with the serious concern that proved necessary to take steps to avert the event. And secondly, there was no infrastructure in place that would have stopped the attack, even if it had been identified in time. Because the first threat had not been identified as such, the same situation prevailed for the second assault on the World Trade Center. But by the time the flight came in over Washington DC, the alert had begun to get into motion, and based partly on the pilot's confusion and the post-event response by the Pentagon staff, the damage, while still grievous, was vastly less than the WTC suffered. The fourth flight was largely a stroke of luck, that the passengers on board were aware of the first three incidents, and succeeded in a suicide mission of their own.
Read my lips, no 9-11's
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