Reply #26: Point by point refutation

[Clark2008]

> His ego is the reason why he was fired from his NATO post because he thought he could circumvent his superiors.

TRUTH: He was relieved two months early of his command because Republican Def. Sec. Bill Cohen wanted to open a position for one of his Republican crony generals. Clinton thought this was routine operating procedure, but upon finding out it wasn't after signing the relieve order, he got extremely angry. He ended up awarding Clark the Presidential Medal of Honor.

> HIs military collegues speak very poorly of him. He made some extremely poor decisions in Kosovo and Serbia and had his superiors have to override him and his subordinates disregarded his orders they were so bad.

TRUTH: Many of his military collegues worked for him during his campaign. His decisions in Kosovo and Serbia resulted in a shortened 72-day war with no loss of allied life. His only "poor" decision was trusting a Republican Def. Sec. under Clinton who was angered that Clark talked Madeline Albright and Clinton into supporting a war that stopped the genocide of Serbian Muslims but brought forth no oil.

> He was passionately for the war... oh, but that was RIGHT BEFORE he decided to become the Dem nominee.... so he became passionately anti-war all of the sudden? Okay I guess if you want Kerry-lite.

TRUTH: He testified before the House Armed Services Committee that going to war in Iraq was unnecessary because Saddam was contained and because the Army was stretched too thin from his Afghanistan missions.

> He thanked God that Bush and his admin were in the White House... until he announce his candidacy and then said they were bad leaders.

TRUTH: This faint praise was issued months before 9/11 when all the country wanted to believe that it hadn't just elected the worst leaders ever. He was a new businessman in the Little Rock community and spoke to both Republican and Democratic fundraisers there in order to meet business people.

> When called out on his party affiliation and when he first "became" a Dem, he floundered. He was a registered Republican until shortly before he decided to become a candidate. (Ehem... he voted for Nixon and Reagan... twice... and Daddy Bush). He even admitted that he would still be a Republican if Karl Rove had returned his phone calls (whcih Rover did not and it pissed Clark off)

TRUTH: As an Army commander, he was a registered independent. While admitting he voted for Nixon and Reagan (and it's never been proven he voted for George H.W. Bush), he said he saw the light and voted for Clinton, Gore and Kerry. He was never required in Arkansas to register with a party, which is the case in many Southern states, to vote in a primary. The crap about that he was be a Republican if Karl Rove had called him was a JOKE, said in a snarky manner. White House records also indicate that Wesley Clark never once called the sorry son of a bitch.

> He's a proponent of late term abortions.

TRUTH: No one is a proponent of abortion. Wesley Clark is pro-choice.

> He's a liar... he first said that said that he received a call directly from the White House admitting that they hyped the issue about the WMD's to garner support. Then he said it was another group that told him about that, then it became some "informant" from Canada that told him when he was caught in the lie. Liar liar pants on fire.

TRUTH: The person who made this phone call to Clark was Israeli-Canadian Middle East expert Thomas Hecht. In his original statement, Clark did not say he got a call from the White House. Clark said from the very beginning that his call was from people connected to "Middle East think tanks," but that all kinds of people were trying to connect Saddam to 9/11, including the White House and people around it.

> Too many holes can be punched in anything that he says he believes in... by his own words.

TRUTH: He scares the bejeezus out of Republicans, so they'll say anything to knock him down a peg.