Reply #37: Hi, Kerry2008.......

[FrenchieCat]

listen...this is how I see it: Wes Clark has a mighty high hill to climb. He has to decide if he can realistically climb it and whether this is what he should do.

I believe that Wes wants to make sure that his voice is included in the debate to make a difference......

I don't believe that people give him due credit for how he consistenly affects issues and policies on the long term while no one is really looking.

As an example...take the issue of Iran--I am of the opinion that if Clark would not have forced debate on this issue day in, day out, Iran would not be discussed in the way that it currently is.....a way not favorable to Bush, PNAC and the NeoCons.

by that I mean concrete work on behalf of Wes Clark--

Wes talking to members of congress on background on this for some time
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2007/02/maxine_waters_on_hardball_wes.html

Wes making a pointed splash with harsh words on the Huffington pages that culmulated in his being targeted by the Republican Jewish Coalition and by every Jewish NeoCon writing for the media, including the Lieberman media wing, TNR.
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2007/01/wes_clark_and_the_new_york_mon.html
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2007/02/the_new_york_sun_confirms_it_j.html
http://www.rjchq.org/media/pdf/wesclarkad-1.pdf

constantly bringing up the refrain that we should be talking to Iran, to the point that others have now adopted quite a few of his views.....word for word.....
General Wesley Clark began the drumbeat calling for direct contact with Iran.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29624
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2007/02/wes_clark_on_iran_information.html
http://www.rapidfire-silverbullets.com/2007/01/iran_and_us_politics_the_good.html
which has had some "adjusting" and "toning down" their Rethorics....
Before - http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/world/?content_id=5400
After - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/18/politics/p163857S76.DTL

And also...Wes Clark doing what he can to sound the alarm to the netroot community...by literally blogging about it himself......
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/1/115124/5806

and Bring it up consistently on Fox where he has a national voice...
http://securingamerica.com/taxonomy/term/23

The truth is that when you type "Wesley Clark Iran" into googles, one gets 46 pages of reference
http://www.google.com/search?q=Wesley+Clark+iran&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&pwst=1&start=0&sa=N

Wes Clark has discussed Iran and kept it as a point of debate to the point that his recommendation that Iran be given a seat at the table when dealing with Iraq and when dealing with Iran's possible Nuclear ambitions was put in as a recommendation in the Baker report (yes.....Wes was talking about that by his lonesome way before the Baker commission was ever even established.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29624

If Wes Clark had not taken such an offensive approach on Iran, there might not be the kind of talk that we are now finally hearing from the corporate media-
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=war+with+iran
By that I mean that the News media is now countering the notion of any type of offensive against Iran as something not required or recommended; and even our usually reactive congress is talking proactively about curtailing Bush's power on this specific issue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/washington/30cnd-congress.html

MSNBC Scarborough Country transcript from Tuesday, Feb. 6 where Joe Scarborough and his panel talk about "whether we‘re one step closer to a coming war with Iran. That country blames the United States for kidnapping an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad. Is it more saber rattling on the part of the Iranian government, or is it the final straw in an inevitable showdown?"

Here is the Scarborough Country video link to watch this interesting dialogue:
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=B6F7C0BF-83AE-469E-A401-03A4360D1D79&f=00&fg=email

I realize that Wes Clark is not the only one to have talked about this issue of Iran. His good friend Sy Hersh has been sounding the bell as well....but bottomline is that I believe that Wes Clark has changed the direction of this one topic....and for the better. The Hate talk against Iran has significantly abaited, and has been replaced with a more sensible debate on the issue that looks at the long term..

Sooooo....I said all of this to say, Hang in there Kerry2008!:headbang: ....because I'll tell you, I think that Wes Clark deserves a bit of our patience, a lot of our respect, and some admiration. For being someone that the media rarely ever discusses.....I will tell you that Wes Clark is effective and doing work for this country that has much more significance than a Book Tour or Photo Ops.

He will be in Saudi Arabia for the next few days...and I'm sure that Iran will again be words that he utters to whomever will listen....and in this case, it will be the world stage:
http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/newsroom/news_view.phtml?news_id=2023