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sundancekid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-04 11:36 AM
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Wes Clark says BushCo have taken wrong lessons from Reagan -- on NPR
his interview just ended on here now ... see details and links below for catching it ...

General Clark will be a guest on National Public Radio's "Here and Now," broadcast on local stations across the country beginning at 12pm ET. Local broadcast times vary significantly, so please check http://www.here-now.org/stations/ for your local station and air time.

And if you miss the radio appearance live, you can visit http://www.here-now.org/ to listen to Wes Clark's interview online.
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-04 02:48 PM
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1. I think it is/will be archived....gee, this is very well coordinated...
Edited on Thu Jun-10-04 02:54 PM by Gloria
Clark was supposed to be in Europe until the 17th...But, immediately after the ICC World Congress, which he participated in in a roundtable with the EU Trade Minister, among others, he's back in Little Rock.

The show is produced in Kerry country--Boston. Now, who thinks this isn't a very carefully orchestrated thing? Smack dab in the middle of Reagan Week, Wes is out there already undermining Bush's claim to the Reagan legacy. While backhandedly "praising" Reagan, he's also slamming Bush! Beautiful setup...

Now, this goes on to a fairly small NPR show....but sooner or later, you can bet someone will pick it up and it will become a "controversy"---which gives Wes another chance to beat off the bull and then go on to explain it all again!!

And the inteviwer ties his comments into his recent Washington Monthly article!! Very nice!

Very nice job. Now, do you think Tom Vilsack (sp?) was consulted on this?? LOL
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-04 03:29 PM
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4. Wes's Last Article Was Prophetic
the way he contrasted Reagan with Bush... who knew Reagan would be dead within 2 weeks?
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-04 02:53 PM
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2. Summary of story and direct link to audio...

http://www.here-now.org/shows/2004/06/20040610_5.asp


Reagan's Cold War Policy
Story aired: Thursday, June 10, 2004



When President Bush eulogizes Ronald Reagan tomorrow, he will be saying goodbye to a man he sees as his ideological father. Comparisons between the two have been made many times, not least by President Bush and his top aides.

Reagan's "evil empire" became Bush's "axis of evil," as President Bush looked to the confrontation and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union as the model for fighting terrorism.

Former NATO commander General Wesley Clark, in an article published in the Washington Monthly in May, argues that President Bush has misunderstood the most important lesson of the Reagan years.
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-04 03:00 PM
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3. From a man who was there.
Clark was a colonel in the Pentagon during the Reagan years.
He saw it all, and says Bush ain't it.

Thanks for posting this.

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