Wes Clark: No demonstrations on Memorial Day....please!
Fri May 25, 2007 at 11:25:36 AM PDT
I was horrified when I first heard that John Edwards was asking everyone to demonstrate against the war on Memorial Day.
It seemed nothing more than a cheap political stunt to me. But even if I give him the benefit of the doubt, I'm still left with his incredible ignorance of what the day means to those who have lost loved ones in the service of their country.
Clark says it best......
How to make War for Fun and Profit!
Fri May 04, 2007 at 10:11:30 AM PDT
So, there's a big battle going on in Washington over the Iraq Supplemental. And although I'm for any bill that brings home our troops sooner, what I'd like to know is this. Where does the money go once it's approved? Does it go to the young men and woman who have been torn from there families two, three, sometimes four times in a row. Does it go to the soldiers who can't get the body armor or the equipment they need? Does it go to those who are increasingly being used as cannon fodder......sacrificed on the alter of lies, incompetence and yes, war profiteering?
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Wes Clark: “We need to put that jack back in the box”
Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 09:08:46 AM PDT
Wes Clark said those words on the campaign trail in 2003. He was talking about the outsourcing of some combat operations to private companies.
It struck a cord with me but didn't get a lot of press. The CorpPress were in "ignore stance" as far as a the Clark campaign was concerned, but more than that, I don't think they saw a problem with outsourcing any government function. They bought into the whole right wing meme that private enterprise does a better job.
Since then, the Press have had a rude awakening. It looks like they finally got it with the Walter Reed scandal, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. The whole idea of replacing government functions with private companies, which has been the GOP's raison d’être from the beginning, has proven to be disastrous. And may I say, it comes a no surprise to most of us.
Private companies have a whole different mission from government. Their bottom line is to make a profit......service be damned.
But back to what Clark was talking about.........combat troops
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Wes Clark is steamed!!!!
Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 06:57:34 PM PDT
So says Arianna Huffington.
She bumped into him at the brunch preceding Nancy Pelosi's formal swearing in and said he was "steamed" at this article by Arnaud De Borchgrave, UPI Editor at Large......
...de Borchgrave details Bibi Netanyahu leading the charge to lobby the Bush administration to take out Iran's nuclear facilities, and paints U.S. air strikes against Iran in 2007/08 as all-but-a-done deal.
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Wes Clark...."What We Must Do Now" (in Afghanistan)
Sun Sep 24, 2006 at 01:03:43 PM PDT
Wes Clark believes in speaking out and holding those in power accountable. From his
testimony before House Armed Services Committee before the invasion of Iraq, to his recent
Judgment on Iraq, and
A US plan for Darfur, the consistent theme as been not just to criticize but to offer alternative solutions. (Yes, MSM....Democrats do have plans) Agree with them or not, you know that they come from his vast experience and intellect, not political expediency
In an article in the Newsweek International Edition due out Oct. 2nd, Clark tackles another quagmire, Afghanistan....
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Elvis will not leave the building
Thu May 18, 2006 at 05:42:39 PM PDT
Prize winning author,
Bernie Quigley has some thoughts on......
Old Dems, New Dems and Fighting Dems
When Tammy Duckworth won her Illinois primary last month it made headlines at the Daily Kos and at WesPAC, General Wesley Clark's web site, but there was otherwise sparse recognition of the brave army officer who lost both her legs in a Blackhawk helicopter in Iraq.
The next day comprehensive articles began to appear and in one article in The New York Times, Major Duckworth was named. The article said the success of women in the recent primaries was an important indicator of how Senator Clinton of New York would fare in 2008 in her Presidential race.
It was a startling piece of reportage. All roads lead to Hillary,...
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"A general holds appeal for a nation weary of war"
Tue May 16, 2006 at 01:48:24 PM PDT
Wes Clark was in Iowa over the weekend campaigning for local candidates.
David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register covered his visit, and had this to say:
The nation is bogged down in a war. There seems to be no way out. A president's job-approval rating tanks.
Iraq, 2006? Yes. It's also Korea, 1952. And in 1952, a war-weary nation grew tired of its president and turned to a retired general to be the next chief executive - giving him the mission of getting the country out of the conflict.
This presidential cycle, retired Gen. Wesley Clark is showing up in Iowa, hoping to repeat something of the same feat Dwight Eisenhower accomplished when he succeeded Harry Truman in 1952.
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BLAIR REFUSES TO BACK IRAN STRIKE!!!!
Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 08:32:11 AM PDT
Blair refuses to back Iran strike
BRIAN BRADY WESTMINSTER EDITOR
TONY Blair has told George Bush that Britain cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community, government sources claimed yesterday.
Amid increasing tension over Tehran's attempts to develop a military nuclear capacity, the Prime Minister has laid bare the limits of his support for President Bush, who is believed to be considering an assault on Iran, Foreign Office sources revealed. ...
According to the The Scotsman
This is the best news I've heard all week. Thank God for Tony. He finally stands up to dumbya and does something right.
Clark and Prendergast lay out a plan for Darfur
Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 05:45:08 AM PDT
Wes Clark and John Prendergast have an important Op Ed in the Boston Globe today about our failures in Dafur, and what we need to do to help end the suffering.
For nearly three years, President Bush has watched from the sidelines while senior officials in his administration have searched for solutions to the catastrophe in Darfur. So the president took a lot of people by surprise -- especially members of his own foreign policy team -- when he recently called for NATO to help protect civilians and stabilize the security situation there. But Bush's unscripted remarks on Darfur are consistent with his erratically implied policy of siding with oppressed people against their oppressors.
His administration has yet to form a united front on Darfur because of competing interests at the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA. Bush needs to pull together these disparate players and create a real policy to end atrocities, punish human rights violators, and create sustainable peace.
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Ed Schultz is saying Hackett was swiftboated.
Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 01:00:08 PM PDT
Schultz is steaming-apparently Sherrod Brown's campaign started a whisper campaign saying that Hackett committed war crimes. Schultz has called on Brown to disavow this. In other words, the DEMS swift boated Hackett. He ripped Schumer and Waxman, too.
Paul will be on his show later.
If any of this is true, I'm through with the Dems....to hell with them!
MISSISSIPPI'S INVISIBLE COAST
Thu Dec 15, 2005 at 07:31:50 PM PDT
MISSISSIPPI'S INVISIBLE COAST
As Aug. 29 recedes into the conscious time of many Americans, the great storm that devastated 70 miles of Mississippi's Coast, destroying the homes and lives of hundreds of thousands, fades into a black hole of media obscurity.
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The depth of the suffering and the height of the courage of South Mississippians is an incredible story that the American people must know. But, in the shadows of the New Orleans story, the Mississippi Coast has become invisible and forgotten to most Americans.
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EPA TO ALLOW PESTICIDE TESTING ON ORPHANS
Tue Nov 29, 2005 at 08:44:44 AM PDT
ALERT: EPA TO ALLOW PESTICIDE TESTING ON ORPHANS & MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Public Comment Period for this rule Closes December 12, 2005
Public comments are now being accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its newly proposed federal regulation regarding the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects. On August 2, 2005, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and children, without exception. But the EPA's newly proposed rule, is ridden with exceptions where chemical studies on children in certain situations like the following:
Drug Companies about to take your rights away!
Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 12:38:33 PM PDT
Congress Set to Pass Law Eliminating Liability For Vaccine Injuries
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 PRNewswire -- The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation "creates a true partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and
academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of Death" in bringing a new vaccine or drug to market.
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Just to give you a sense of just how badly FEMA has f*cked up.
Sat Sep 03, 2005 at 02:17:18 PM PDT
This was posted by a Clarkie over at the Securing America:
Just to give you a sense of just how badly FEMA has f*cked up.
Posted by Clark Warner on September 3, 2005 - 2:23pm.
This is beyond my comprehension and after spending two frustrating days trying to just get someone to let us help we've FINNALLY been told we can conduct "renegade" boat rescues via the just concluded press conference that Gov. Blanco just held.
Why is this JUST NOW being allowed? Well let's start from the very beginning.
On Wednesday morning a group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette in the early morning and headed to New Orleans with a police escort from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department. The flotillia of trucks pulling boats stretched over FIVE miles. This citizen rescue group was organized by La. State Senator, Nick Gautreaux from Vermilion Parish. The group was comprised of experienced boaters, licensed fishermen and hunters, people who have spent their entire adult life and teenage years on the waterways of Louisiana.
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"It all comes back to leadership" Wes Clark
Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 10:21:35 AM PDT
Clark has been blogging at TPM Cafe all week. Today's entry is particularly apropos.
It all comes back to leadership
By Wesley Clark
Good morning. Yesterday was a long and rewarding day here in Iowa, and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and speaking with so many good people here. But like all other Americans, my thoughts frequently returned to the people suffering through the disaster that Hurricane Katrina has wrought along the Gulf Coast. And those thoughts kept bringing me back to a theme that we started talking about on Monday: leadership.
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