What Clark should have said at this point:

[garthranzz]

I've been asked to repost my response to an earlier post: Wes Clark destroys, then dismisses repug enabler Cavuto
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2805283
(It's still on the greatest page, I think.) Here is what I wrote:

Neil Cavuto: Do, do you think then, the, by the constant pounding against the war, the constant pounding of the President, saying that he's a unfit Commander in Chief, that he hasn't done his job - what message does this send to our troops - and you of course, a former esteemed general - what message do you think that sends when the Commander in Chief is bludgeoned constantly?

By stating what is obvious to anyone willing to look at the facts, by pointing out the Emperor's New Clothes, by stating - pounding, to use your word, that Mr Bush is incompetent, is an unfit Commander-in-Chief, that he and Cheney and Rumsfeld have failed miserably, have neither increased our security nor promoted democracy - by saying all this, which is only the truth, it sends a message to our troops that we don't think they're idiots. It tells them we trust them to handle the truth. It tells them that we will take care of them by not allowing them to continue to suffer for a mistake. It tells them that, like their brothers and sisters who fought in Vietnam, their service allows this country to debate, to disagree, to chastise and remove leaders who betray the trust of the American people, including and especially, the military. It tells them that their time in uniform preserves the Constitution - and democracy itself - precisely because unlike the dictators we've fought in the past and the would-be tyrants - at home and abroad - neither rank, nor wealth, nor a microphone makes one person superior to another. It sends the message that though the so-called Commander-in-Chief has betrayed them, sent them to fight an unwinnable war, based on lies and deceptions, and sent them without the support or equipment needed to succeed, we will not betray them or abandon them or deceive them or allow their sacrifice and service to have been for naught. For they have been fighting not for the spread of democracy abroad, but for the preservation of democracy here - by demonstrating the courage to serve and dissent.