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Wesley Clark pledges end to discriminatory policies

LOS ANGELES -- Retired Gen. Wesley Clark said during a campaign stop Saturday that if elected president he would put an end to racial profiling and other policies he believes unfairly single out minorities.

The Democratic presidential hopeful, in his second Southern California campaign stop since he officially entered the race Sept. 17, spoke for about an hour at a hotel in the Koreatown neighborhood west of downtown Los Angeles. About 300 people attended the event.

Clark criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the economy, the war on terror and its foreign policy.
He drew the loudest applause from the crowd after saying that Bush does not do enough to address the concerns of minorities and denounced the president’s support of the Patriot Act, a sweeping law enacted following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that targets suspected terrorists.

Clark also said he would provide health care to all Americans under the age of 22 by giving them the opportunity to buy into federal health insurance programs. On Iraq, Clark accused Bush of playing "a game of bait and switch with the American people."

Clark was scheduled to speak before members of the San Francisco Bar Association today.




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