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URL: sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/12/national0350EST0456.DTL (11-12) 00:50 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Criticizing President Bush's efforts, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark says he would press Saudi Arabia to provide commandos to accompany U.S. troops in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders. Clark, a former four-star Army general, says although the Bush administration did the right thing by going after al-Qaida after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, it failed to finish the job it started. "They still haven't found Osama bin Laden. And every day, Americans live at risk because of this failure," Clark said in remarks prepared for delivery...

Weird things certainly happen during election season, but it's doubtful that even the most hardened seen-it-all pundit would have dreamed that Einstein's theory of relativity would turn up as an issue in an American presidential campaign. Yet a leading Democratic candidate, Gen. Wesley Clark, recently expressed the hope that spaceships might one day be engineered to go faster than the speed of light, a staple of science fiction. In a discussion of NASA's future at a gathering in New Hampshire, Clark ventured a look into the far, far future. "I still believe in E=mc2," he said, according to Wired.com, "but...

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark's campaign said Wednesday night that he will return payments he has received for speeches since declaring his candidacy and will no longer speak for money. Clark spokesman Mark Fabiani issued a statement that said Clark's advisers reviewed federal guidelines and determined that his paid speeches were appropriate. "Nevertheless, to avoid any distraction from the real issues that matter to Americans, General Clark has decided to return the payments from these speeches," the statement said. Kym Spell, a Clark spokeswoman, said she did not know how much money was involved. CSpell said she did...

<p>WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Since retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark announced his candidacy for president, he may have violated federal election laws, the Washington Post reported.</p> <p>Clark talked about his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president during paid appearances at DePauw University in Indiana and on other campuses, the Post said.</p>

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Latest contender for president comes from long line of rabbis By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (JTA) — Raised a Southern Baptist who later converted to Roman Catholicism, Gen. Wesley Clark knew just what to say when he strode into a Brooklyn yeshiva in 1999, ostensibly to discuss his leadership of NATO´s victory in Yugoslavia. "I feel a tremendous amount in common with you," the uniformed four-star general told the stunned roomful of students. "I am the oldest son, of the oldest son, of the oldest son — at least five generations, and they were all rabbis."

In a little noticed interview with Fortune Magazine last week, presidential frontrunner Gen. Wesley Clark defended Saddam Hussein against charges that he was engaged in crimes against his own people at the time the Iraq war started, contending instead that the Iraqi dictator should have gotten a pass because his atrocities took place ten years ago. Asked why it was right for President Clinton to use military force to halt Slobodan Milosevic's crimes against humanity in Kosovo, but not for President Bush to do the same thing against Saddam, Clark said that in Iraq, "The imminence of stopping a...

Must read transcript from Fox... Brit Hume: I want to just for the benefit of those who may not remember it, look back to a scene outside of the NBC studios here in Washington, when Clark had been on "Meet The Press," he came out, there were the other reporters waiting there to ask him some of the same questions. This was a ritual weekly in Washington and this is the scene that ensued. Reporter: General Clark, do you have a moment to stop at the stakeout cameras? Clark: Is it okay if I don't? Reporter: When you're on the...

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...