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<p>September 20, 2003 -- In a disastrous debut, Gen. Wesley Clark yesterday flip-flopped back and forth on the Iraq war - wobbling over the issue that was supposed to be the strongest suit for the latest 2004 Democratic wannabe.</p> <p>A day after Clark raised eyebrows by saying he'd "probably" have voted for the war if he'd been in Congress, the rookie campaigner did a complete about-face and insisted he would "never" have done any such thing.</p>

The Democratic presidential campaign has been a bust so far.After nearly a year of campaigning, the only one of the nine announced candidates to catch fire has been Howard Dean, whom party leaders deride as too liberal and too error-prone to beat President Bush. That explains the extraordinary welcome that many Democrats yesterday gave General Wesley Clark’s announcement that he was joining the presidential race. The chief boosters of General Clark’s candidacy are none other than William and Hillary Clinton. General Clark hails from Little Rock, Ark., knew Mr. Clinton when he was still a governor, and had an extraordinary...

WASHINGTON—A Montreal man has emerged as the key figure in a controversy that has dogged Democratic presidential aspirant Wesley Clark during the summer months. Questions have swirled since June when the former NATO commander alleged on national television that he was pressured to link the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in a mystery phone call he received. Clark first implied the call, not long after the attacks, might have come from White House, then later said it came from a Middle Eastern think tank in Canada. He has never identified the caller. As Clark kicked...