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Skriven 2008-07-09 22:10:00 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Tim Richardson
Ärende: Military Service BS again
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->>  RC> But I seem to recall Clinton removed him because Clark
->>  RC> wanted to take the Bosnia thing out of the air and move it
->>  RC> into ground ops. More or less, differing philosophies on
->>  RC> how to proceed from his CnC.

->>  Bosnia was a ground op. I believe you are referring to Kosovo.
->>  He set up a ground invasion, but that was planned as a threat to
->>  get the Serbs to give it up. It worked.

->>  The actual war was over and the US forces were on the ground in
->>  Kosovo, among Nato peacekeepers, by July of 1999. Clark retired
->>  in May of 2000.

->>  I find the opposition from within the higher command of the
->>  military as a believable explanation for his retirement.

JJ>>Yes, yes, but you have to keep in mind his terrible, unforgivable totally
JJ>>unacceptable weirdness: He is a (gasp!) Democrat. What further information

 TR> Wesley Clark being himself:

 TR> "I'm very glad we have a great team in
 TR> office....Powell....Rumsfeld....Cheney....Rice....People I
 TR> know very well. Our president George W. Bush. We need them
 TR> there." ....Wesley Clark at a 5/11/01 dinner speech in
 TR> Arkansas

 TR> "We will always be grateful to George Bush for that great
 TR> leadership and statesmanship." ......Wesley Clark 5/11/01

 Notice two things. He cited Powell, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice
 seperately from Bush. He actually did know them from previous
 service.

 The other thing, the George Bush referred to in the second part
 was George H W Bush, not junior.

 Oh, I just noticed, O'Neil was cut from that list, he was in the
 original.

 Now I also see, three of the people in the list have been forced
 out. O'Neil and Powell by the administration, Rumsfeld by his
 loss of public support, due to his incompetence.

 The only ones left are Bush, who is a bit difficult to fire,
 Cheney who is just as difficult to fire, and who is Bush's
 secret controller anyway, and Rice, who was the hatchet person
 who sabatoged Powell.

 TR> "President Bush and Tony Blair should be proud of their
 TR> resolve in the face of so much doubt." ........Wesley Clark
 TR> 4/10/03 Times of London

 This was, of course, before they showed how badly they could
 screw things up. After all, it was in the middle of the
 invasion. As some of us said, the war would be easy, the peace
 would be hell.

 TR> "General Clark said today that he would have supported the
 TR> Congressional Resolution to invade Iraq."
 TR> ..........9/19/03  New York Times

 As most politicians did... before it became so clear it was a
 fraud. Though some of us did spot it long before that, even
 before the invasion.

 TR> "I would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned
 TR> my phone calls." ......Wesley Clark to two Republicans at a
 TR> conference in Switzerland

 Which would explain all the below.

 TR> You hear very little about the fact that retired General
 TR> wesley Clark helped an Arkansas information company win a
 TR> contract to assist in developement of an airline screening
 TR> system, one of the largest surveilance programs ever
 TR> devised by the government.

 Money money money money money money...

 TR> Beginning just after the 9/11 attack, Clark sought out
 TR> dozens of government and industry officials on behalf of
 TR> Acxiom Corporation, a data powerhouse that maintains names,
 ...
 TR> earned in excess of $300,000, and recieved about $150,000
 TR> in 2003, plus potential commissions. He owned several
 TR> thousand shares of Acxiom stock worth more than $67,000.

  Money money money money money money...

 TR> Clark's role at Acxiom put him right near the very center
 TR> of the national debate over expanded government authority
 TR> to use and store vast amounts of personal data on the
 TR> citizenry of this country (guess which side `Clark' came
 TR> down on!).

  Money money money money money money...

 TR> In 1994, Clark (then a three star general) met in Banja
 TR> Luka, a town in Bosnia/Herzegovina, with a serb general
 TR> named Ratko Mladic, traded hats with him and the two of
 TR> them mugged for the cameras.

 TR> An official of the U.S. State Department at the time,
 TR> likened it to cavorting with Hermann Goering!

 TR> Mladic was indicted for war crimes and was a fugitive with
 TR> a $5 million dollar price on his head not long afterward.

 So, Clark turned out to be a republican in his heart after all.

 TR> Great guy, Wesley Clark.

 And the Bush administration gave the Taliban $40 mill before
 9-11. And Bush continues to be a friend to the Saudi royal
 family, perhaps the biggest bankrollers of radical intolerant
 Islam in the world.

 Gee... we should be surprised?



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