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  Gen Wesley Clark - From Waco to Yugoslavia
General Wesley Clark was involved in the siege and final assault near Waco, Texas that killed, by a combination of toxic gas and fire, at least 82 people including some three dozen women, children and infants.
Further, there is substantial circumstantial evidence that, Clark, in addition to acting as a tactical consultant, may, in fact, have been the prime architect and commander of the entire operation.
General Wesley Clark) have insisted that that NATO, not the UN, would be the commanding force in Kosovo and everyone else, like the Russians, would have to submit to NATO orders.
www.rense.com /general42/clark.htm   (794 words)

  
  Wesley Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23, 1944) is a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army.
Clark's testimony was sought because he had spoken with Milosevic for a total of more than 100 hours, in his role as the head of the U.S. military team during the Dayton Agreement negotiations and as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Clark stated that his order to block the runways was refused by an emotional Jackson and that he took the matter up the British chain of command.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wesley_Clark   (6142 words)

  
 DraftWesleyClark.com
General Wesley Clark has a long and distinguished record of service in the armed forces as both a leader and a force for justice in the military.
Clark was recently one of several former military men to file a pro-affirmative action "friend of the court" brief on behalf of the University of Michigan in their battle against the Bush Administration efforts to dismantle Michigan's admissions policy.
Clark said he was "surprised and dismayed" by the president's decision.
www.draftwesleyclark.com /on_the_issues.htm   (1292 words)

  
 General Wesley Clark
General Wesley Clark was involved in the siege and final assault near Waco, Texas that killed, by a combination of toxic gas and fire, at least 82 people including some three dozen women, children and infants.
Although Clark never publicly has discussed his role in the attack on the Branch Davidians and did not respond to Insight's requests for an interview to discuss his role at Waco, there are indisputable facts that confirm he had knowledge of the grim plans to bring the standoff to an end.
Clark had to be involved at the tactical level, he had to know what the tactical plan was and he'd have to approve it.
www.apfn.org /apfn/clark.htm   (6017 words)

  
 Gen. Wesley Clark - MSNBC TV: Battle for the White House - MSNBC.com
Wesley Clark is the next guest in the hot seat in our special series, ‘Hardball: Battle for the White House.’ Dec. 8, Monday, 7 p.m.
Wesley Clark's resume is impressive, even overwhelming — Rhodes Scholar, Vietnam War captain honored with a Silver Star for valor in combat, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO — and that resume, with his deep national security credentials, is the centerpiece of Clark’s campaign.
Clark’s previous experience in elections was limited to a run for homeroom student council, not exactly preparation for the never-ending press conference of a presidential campaign.
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 Wesley Kanne Clark - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wesley Kanne Clark (http://www.who2.com/wesleykclark.html) is "the U. Army general who is rumored to be in the running as a Democratic candidate for the presidency in the 2004 election.
In 1999 Clark was in charge of the NATO victory in Kosovo over the forces of Slobadan Milosevic, but in 2000 he retired after 34 years in the army (some stories have it that he was forced to retire).
Wesley Clark, the former Army General who announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sept. 17, has not given up his board memberships, according to published accounts.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Wesley_Kanne_Clark   (1190 words)

  
 National Security in the Information Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wesley Clark (retired General, U.S. Army) was most recently chairman of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic advisory and consulting firm.
From 2000 to 2003, Clark served as a managing director for the Stephens Group, Inc. He served in the U.S. Army for more than 35 years and rose to become NATO supreme allied commander and commander in chief of the U.S. European Command from 1997 to 2000.
From 1996 to 1997, Clark served as commander in chief of the U.S. Southern Command, Panama.
www.markletaskforce.org /wclark.html   (148 words)

  
 NPR : The 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates: Wesley Clark
These are just some of the roadblocks that Wesley Clark faces in his bid to win his new party's nomination in 2004.
Clark initially said he "probably" would have voted for the 2002 congressional resolution giving authority for President Bush to wage war against Iraq.
Clark has picked up much of the campaign apparatus of former candidate Bob Graham and hopes to do well in Florida's primary on March 9 -- assuming the battle for the nomination lasts that long.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/democrats2004/clark.html   (1445 words)

  
 CNN.com Specials
Clark pushed for a more aggressive assault and reportedly urged the Pentagon to allow him to plan a ground invasion of Kosovo if the airstrikes failed.
Clark also wrote a book, "Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo and the Future of Combat," and maintained a public profile as a CNN military analyst and a public speaker.
Clark crisscrossed the country and appeared often on television in the subsequent months, voicing his opposition to President Bush's decision to attack Iraq and his views on both international policy and protecting the U.S. mainland while generally avoiding specifics on domestic issues.
www.cnn.com /ELECTION/2004/special/president/candidates/clark.html   (1035 words)

  
 Gen. Wesley Clark, unplugged - Salon
Supreme Allied Commander of the NATO forces in Europe, Clark, 58, is one of the most ubiquitous experts explaining the war to TV viewers.
Clark graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point and was a Rhodes scholar.
Clark told a dinner gathering of New Hampshire Democrats that he is pro-choice and opposes the presence of "out" gays and lesbians in the military.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/03/24/clark/index.html   (844 words)

  
 Wesley Clark
Clark is a southerner from Arkansas and the last two democrats elected to the presidency came from the south, and presumably, helped pull in southern votes.
Why Wesley Clark is dangerous in which he says that he's dangerous because he could win the presidential elections.
Clark is off to an amazing start, and it will be wonderful if he is the real thing-- a progressive democrat who is not owned by corporations or the military.
www.opednews.com /kall_wesley_clark.htm   (1484 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact
Clark seemed to recognize that the central message of his candidacy is Wesley Clark, and the uniform he wore for thirty-four years as an officer in the United States Army.
Clark was welcomed into the campaign by many Democrats as the triumphant commander of Kosovo, and he uses the lessons of Kosovo to explain his criticism of the Iraq war.
Clark’s perception to be unmatched by any officer with whom I have served, irrespective of rank or position.” Clark was repeatedly described as an officer who demanded perfection from his men, and from himself.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?031117fa_fact   (7311 words)

  
 Wesley Clark
Clark graduated first in his class at West Point and holds a Master's Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
In August 2000, Clark was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
Finally, General Clark is also licensed as an investment banker, chairman of a strategic advisory and consulting firm, and frequent commentator for CNN.
www.writebetweenthelines.com /ws_home/theory/A3_Wesley_Clark.htm   (759 words)

  
 General Wesley K. Clark, AR - Democrat
General Clark was a White House Fellow in 1975-1976 and served as a Special Assistant to the Director of Management and Budget.
Clark served in the Vietnam War where he was shot in the leg, hip, shoulder and hand.
Clark worries that the Iraq policy is fatally flawed because it's likely to create new recruits for America's main enemy -- the Islamic fundamentalists who destroyed the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
selectsmart.com /president/Clark.html   (2058 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Wesley Clark: General Issues by Lowell Ponte
Clark is a very peculiar man with facets to his personality, behavior and history that will seem creepy and frightening to people of both the Right and the Left.
Wesley was raised a Southern Baptist, not a Jew, after that move.
Wesley Clark’s command at Fort Hood “lent” 17 pieces of armor and 15 active service personnel under his command to the Waco Branch Davidian operation.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9522   (1964 words)

  
 2004 Presidential Candidates' Views on the Middle East: Wesley Clark
Contrary to some news reports, Wesley Clark's father was not a rabbi and he admitted that he "may be wrong" about claiming to come from a line of rabbis.
Clark is a retired four-star General whose service included the position of Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
Clark said he was an early advocate of a security fence for Israel, but said he didn’t want the fence to derail peace talks and didn’t want a fence to be routed in such a way that it makes Palestinian suffer.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/clark.html   (4480 words)

  
 The Awful Truth About General Wesley Clark
Wesley K. Clark said today that he would have supported the Congressional resolution that authorized the United States to invade Iraq, even as he presented himself as one of the sharpest critics of the war effort in the Democratic presidential race.
Clark claims that the postwar NATO occupation brought "peace" to Kosovo, but he was clearly unprepared for the violent "ethnic cleansing" that took place on his watch, largely facilitated by his decisions, under the noses of his troops.
It's as if everyone has forgotten Wesley Clark was the Bomber of Belgrade, the highest-ranking military official in a cabal that systematically violated international law, the NATO Charter (and with it the US Constitution, Article 6, Section 2) and committed the greatest crime under the Nuremburg principles: that against peace.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles8/DVNS_Wesley-Clark.htm   (5137 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Newsmaker: Wesley Clark -- October 30, 2003
Democratic presidential candidate and retired four-star Gen. Wesley Clark discusses key issues in the upcoming race for the White House, including the impact of tax cuts on the economy and strategies for postwar reconstruction in Iraq.
Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark both decided to forgo the January Iowa caucus and instead focus their campaigns on the early primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
WESLEY CLARK: Well, none of the economic models show that the recovery is going to be strong enough to restore fiscal responsibility.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/politics/july-dec03/clark_10-30.html   (2095 words)

  
 "Top Dem Wesley Clark Says ‘N.Y. Money People’ Pushing War With Iran - Forward.com"
By Tuesday, Clark, a past and likely future Democratic candidate for president, was working to assure Jewish groups that he was in no way attempting to advance an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Huffington quoted Clark as saying that the idea of bombing Iran before exhausting diplomatic avenues was “outrageous.” According to Huffington, she then asked Clark what made him so sure that the United States is headed in the direction of attacking Iran, and he replied: “You just have to read what’s in the Israeli press.
During the campaign, Clark made several references to his Jewish family background, noting that though he was not aware of it until adulthood, he was proud of his heritage.
www.forward.com /articles/top-dem-wesley-clark-says-ny-money-people-pu   (993 words)

  
 NATO Who is Who? SACEUR General Wesley K. Clark
General Clark's last assignment was as Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern Command, Panama, from June 1996 to July 1997, where he commanded all U.S. forces and was responsible for the direction of most U.S. military activities and interests in Latin America and the Caribbean.
General Clark is a 1966 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated first in his class.
General Clark was a White House Fellow in 1975-1976 and served as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
www.nato.int /cv/saceur/clark.htm   (526 words)

  
 Transcript: Wesley Clark , Clark Speaks To Dan Rather In First Primetime Interview - CBS News
WESLEY CLARK: Well, she laughed when people called the house in February of 2003 and said, '”We wanna talk to General Clark and ask him to run.” She would snicker.
WESLEY CLARK: Well, I don't think the United States armed forces belong to, should belong to either political party and they shouldn't be used for partisan purposes, and they shouldn't be sent to war except as a last resort.
WESLEY CLARK: There had been a decision made that we were going to get Saddam Hussein, and this was apparently made at least, not a final decision, but a decision to move very forcefully in that direction.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/11/19/60II/printable584548.shtml   (3184 words)

  
 Beliefnet Interviews Democratic Presidential Candidate General Wesley Clark -- Beliefnet.com
Wesley Clark on anti-military preachers, his conversion, bigotry against his Jewish dad & when he was most 'close to God'
CLARK: My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago.
CLARK: Sure, I was always nagging my parents to come.
www.beliefnet.com /story/136/story_13636_1.html   (394 words)

  
 Skeleton Closet - Wesley Clark, The Dark Side
Wesley Clark Wesley Clark has the most impressive resume of any candidate since, well, Bill Clinton -- first in his class at West Point, Rhodes Scholar, Masters in Economics at Oxford, decorated veteran, 4-star general, commander of NATO forces during the war in Kosovo.
Holbrooke says that he dared Wesley Clark and Joe Kruzel to dive into the Adriatic Sea from the 3rd story window of their hotel in Split, Croatia, and both did.
Clark, who had negotiated with Milovic, Serbia and Russia in the Dayton Peace Accords, was determined not to let that ploy work.
www.realchange.org /clark.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Gen. Wesley Clark Goes to War for Abortion
When Wesley Clark, a retired Army four-star general, announced his run for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Washington Post was moved to comment that Clark is "a work in progress." That much remains clear after several months on the campaign trail.
In assembling his platform for the race, Clark repackaged himself as a Democrat who is strong on national defense, opposes the war in Iraq, and supports a host of liberal social policies.
Clark said that he would never appoint a pro-life judge to the federal bench, citing the judicial precedent of the 1973 Roe v.
www.crosswalk.com /1240588   (643 words)

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