"Don’t get too cocky about 2008", Clark told us. "The Republican plan is to use war"

[electprogdems]

A great local blog that I try to read has some great thoughts from General Clark concerning the prez election and the coming (according to Gen Clark) war with Iran, and the incompetence of our leadership.


http://www.horsesass.org/?p=3524

[RethugAssKicker]

1. BINGO... and that means war with Iran !!!!

[Tesla]

2. And a 3rd term for Bush

Mark my words

[CrispyQ]

5. Tesla, my husband agrees with you.

He doesn't believe there will be elections. "Cheney didn't work to get all this power to hand it over to someone else."

I hope you're both wrong. :scared:

[Cassandra]

6. Considering the ongoing search for loyal Bushies to hire...

it does make me wonder if he is willing to leave.

[ejbr]

7. I donno..

I am sure there must be more than a few Democratic NRA members with a few loose screws, no?

[Mass]

3. Clark is a very wise man.

[electprogdems]

4. That he is

I wish he would run, but he will make a great secretary of defense

[FrenchieCat]

8. And that's the sad part....the fact that we Democrats are much too cocky

for our own good. Just like those that say that primary polls have a way of changing quickly......so do election polls. Voters are fickle, and the media is even more so.

We take this election as a "win" for granted, and many of us will be found weeping on the floor as happened days after election 2000.

[Adelante]

9. "They know nothing about war"

There I was the other night, pint of Manny’s in hand, plotting mischief with a couple of politicos, when who should walk up to us but Gen. Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander — and I gotta say, perhaps the most energetically outspoken politician I’ve ever met. Within seconds we’re talking Iran, and Gen. Clark didn’t mince words. President Bush is preparing to take us to war with Iran, and the Democratic Congress, Clark warned, is unprepared to stop him. Don’t get too cocky about 2008, Clark told us. The Republican plan is to use the war, and the patriotic fervor that seems to swell up around every new military adventure, to kick ass next November, branding us Democrats as weak, indecisive and obstructionist… if not out-and-out traitors.

It’s so crazy, it just might work.

I’ve heard smart people describe the notion of war with Iran as “unimaginable,” an assertion disproved by the conversation itself. It is in fact easy to imagine Bush launching a “preemptive” strike on an Iranian nuclear facility, or provoking (or fabricating) a Gulf of Tonkin-like incident that absolutely demands immediate retaliation. And it is equally easy to imagine the American people, moved by fear, rewarding the war party for its aggression, despite the growing national disgust over our quagmire in Iraq.

Coming from me, it is easy to dismiss such warnings as the paranoid ravings of the “far-left” “nutroots.” Which is why it is so important to have these warnings come from men of Gen. Clark’s stature and expertise. As Gen. Clark told the Seattle P-I’s Joel Connelly, the chicken-hawks planning and promoting a war with Iran have learned nothing from their disaster in Iraq:

“They know nothing about war,” Clark declared. “Almost none among them has ever seen a battlefield. They don’t comprehend the blood, the mangled bodies. They’ve never seen severed body parts. And they are so absolutely sure that you can predict the outcome.”

http://www.horsesass.org/?p=3524

[kdpeters]

10. And if not a war, then a terrorist attack

Mark my words!! They will NOT let go of the reigns easily. They've committed too many crimes to not pull out all the stops to keep their hold on power. It will likely be martial law come January 22, 2009 and George W. Bush will probably still be president.