The Honorable, Accomplished Wesley Clark [View All]

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This is an opinion piece in response to another letter which said... "Dean,
Clark Not Worthy of Attention," This letter sets her straight. :7 It's from The Chattanoogan.com

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The Honorable, Accomplished Wesley Clark
posted December 21, 2003

To Kelley McNabb,

You have absolutely got to be kidding. In your letter, "Dean,
Clark Not Worthy of Attention," you say that liberals wanted the U.S. to "mind our own business." Wesley Clark has never said that we should simply "mind our own business." It was his determination as NATO Supreme Allied Commander of Europe to stay involved that stopped the slaughter in Kosovo. He saved a million and a half Albanians from Milosevic's genocidal plans. With regard to Iraq, he has said that we will eventually have to deal with Saddam Hussein, but it doesn't have to be now, and it doesn't have to be militarily. With Osama bin Laden uncaptured, and Afhganistan not yet stabilized, this was a bad time to deal hastily with Iraq, and jump into war without planning what happens afterwards.

On C-SPAN, I saw 200,000 British demonstrators take to the
streets and pull down a statue of Bush, symbolizing the fall of
Saddam's statues. I think this substantiated for me the existence of
international anti-Bush sentiment. Britain is our greatest ally. Did
you know that Wesley Clark was knighted by the Queen on March 28, 2000?

He didn't receive this honor by promoting isolationist policies. Bush will never know this honor. He will have the memory of his high
security state visit in which his helicoptors smashed the royal flower
gardens around Buckingham Palace. He couldn't dare be exposed to the angry public.<snip>

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He is at the very least a great American. He has done nothing
but express his deep love of this country and the principles on which
it was founded. He spent 34 years in the service of this country, and
has done nothing but honorable things in that time, and since. Who are you to smear his name? What great credentials do you have? How many lives have you saved? How many medals to you wear? How many Masters degrees do you have? Were you a Rhodes Scholar? Do you own a Presidential Medal of Freedom? Silver stars? Bronze stars?
Have you read his books? You have to look way beyond the CNN military analyst job to see who this man really is. Once you know, you'll see why people like me get behind him and stay behind him.<snip>

by....Theodore James Payne
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Go Mr. Payne! :bounce:

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_44784.asp