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To: Quilla
Insisting on the accuracy of his military analysis of the Iraq War ... "I was anything but biased. I was 100 percent objective. I called it right and I stand by the results," he said.

Does anybody remember if his analysis was right or not? Somehow I doubt it was, but I don't remember anything he said.

23 posted on 08/26/2003 8:36:31 AM PDT by ConfusedAndLovingIt
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To: ConfusedAndLovingIt
He was the most consistently pessimistic -- AND WRONG -- of any military commentator on any network. Mainly, I suppose, because his experiences under Clinton blinded to him to the possibility that an American president might give the American armed forces the opportunity, means and motive to get the job done.
31 posted on 08/26/2003 8:41:11 AM PDT by Norman Conquest
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To: ConfusedAndLovingIt
"Does anybody remember if his analysis was right or not? Somehow I doubt it was, but I don't remember anything he said."

Clark's accuracy compared favorably to Robert Fisk's and Comical Ali's, to give you a frame of reference...

39 posted on 08/26/2003 8:54:05 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: ConfusedAndLovingIt
The week before we took Baghdad, he predicted that, because of the 'strung out supply lines, poor planning and unanticipated Fedayeen resistance' that the U.S. would take 3,000 casualties when we stormed that city.

Clark was wrong on every 'prediction'., not just the one I cite..and, of course, in claiming that he 'called it right', he's lying.

He's a natural for the Democratic Party.
45 posted on 08/26/2003 9:32:14 AM PDT by jwfiv
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To: ConfusedAndLovingIt
His analysis was that it would take many, many months, or as long as a year, to defeat Iraq, and then only if we committed far more troops.
60 posted on 08/26/2003 10:08:16 AM PDT by ought-six
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