Can someone (sans flambe) explain this Clark anti-war flap? [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

truthout is running the two Clark stories that have come out contravening the media play-up that he is an 'anti-war' candidate. I would not have run the stories, for a couple of reasons that I am hoping y'all can either correct me on or prove my point.

1. I stopped watching CNN a long time ago, and have also been on the road throughout the whole Clark breakout. Ergo, my impression was that Clark is not 'anti-war' (he's a freakin' general) but was not at all wild about this Iraq war. Is that a correct impression or not?

2. Because of that, I fear that it has been the media, and not Clark, that has been playing him as an 'anti-war' candidate...much the same way alot of the media has Dean being an 'ultra-liberal' in contravention of the facts. Yes or no?

3. Ergo, those stories bashing Clark (FAIR and 'High Noon', both here: http://truthout.org/docs_03/091803A.shtml ) about not being the anti-war candidate he says he is are actually taking the media line on clark to bash Clark, and not actually bashing Clark with a correct overview of his own perspective. Make sense?

Where am I on this?