Reply #105: Too bad you missed it [View All]

[Jai4WKC08]

Pay closer attention this time and you might learn something.

Clark testified before BOTH Houses of Congress that we shouldn't be going to war. He published thousands (probably tens or hundreds of thousands) of words that said we shouldn't be going to war. Everyone who listened to him knew he thought we shouldn't be going to war. In the very NYT article where he caught shit for an alleged (and always out of context) flip-flop on the war, he is very specifically quoted as saying, "But Dean was right" (about not going to war). I'd venture to say Clark has more time on air and more lines of print saying we shouldn't have gone to war than any other Democrat alive.

But you asked about CNN in 2003. Here's how one right-wing source reports it:

Wesley Clark: General Issues
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 25, 2003

"THE GUY MUST HAVE A BEDROOM AT CNN,” my wife would joke. It seemed true, because at every hour of the day or night during the Iraq War, retired General Wesley K. Clark could be seen on the Cable News Network as a “military expert” criticizing the Bush Administration.

A quick victory in Iraq “was not going to happen,” he told viewers on March 25 <2003>, shortly before the quickest blitzkrieg victory of its size in military history occurred. But his words doubtless brought comfort to the fans of a network slanted so far to the Left that the most asked question about its name is whether the “C” in CNN stands for Clinton, Castro or Communist News Network.



http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9522

And whadya know. A "quick victory" didn't happen. And never could. Another Truth Clark has told over and over again.

Did he speak the same truth, every day, every segment that aired? Do you really think CNN would have allowed that? Remember, he was just another retired general in 2003. He didn't have the power to set the terms of his contract the way he does now.

But isn't it funny that the RW goons understood what Clark was saying, even back then, but you missed it. And now you would do their work for them by tearing him down for what he did say.

You asked did Clark tell the truth on CNN. Your turn. Why don't you tell me when he ever lied?