I don't recognize this Wesley Clark

[senseandsensibility]

Anyone remember General Wesley Clark, who ran for President as a Democrat and ridiculed dubya for "prancing around on a flight deck" during the "mission accomplished" spectacle?

Well, he is now defending trump's Iran strategy on CNN. He said, among other things, that we are only six weeks in and we need to give it more time to break the will of the Iranian regime. He said that if we destroy Iranian infrastructure it will lead to them being isolated economically and that will lead to them being more reasonable. He also said that if it gets bad the Iranian people will rise up. He did not express concern at all for civilian lives in the segment that I heard.

I was shocked and disappointed. CNN is in sanewash overdrive this morning.

[wnylib]

1. *IF* it gets bad???

[Irish_Dem]

2. How many investments does he have in the military industrial complex?

Is he making money from this war?

[Irish_Dem]

3. How many investments does he have in the military industrial complex?

Is he making money from this war?

[senseandsensibility]

5. I don't know

[niyad]

21. Go to his wiki page. .quite a list of business interests.

[Irish_Dem]

22. Thanks will take a look.

Even if these guys make money off of the war, if everything gets blown up
in the process, that might not help them?

But I knew people who got very rich off the Viet Nam war.

[Walleye]

4. He has entered the maga delusional world. Iran is not going to surrender.

[Spazito]

6. Very disappointing.

[karynnj]

7. Over the years since 2004, I realize that he was almost a stealth candidate

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He had spent almost his entire adult life in the military and, as was the norm, did not take political positions. So, when he ran two things were true. He had no public positions or, for the most part, comments from past decades to defend. He also had no political experience.

The latter doomed his campaign. He did not run in Iowa, spending his time in New Hampshire, where his inexperience caused his initial support to implode even before Iowa. Those voters, some of whom originally Dean moved to undecided and most moved to Kerry after Iowa.

As a former top military person, he was welcomed by us when he attacked Bush. I think it is interesting that Obama made former Republican Senator Hagel the Secretary of Defense, but there was never any public discussion of Clark.

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. Well, that's a bit disappointing.

I was a Clarkie way back in the day. Still have the campaign sticker on my toolbox. I’ve become a leftist since then and he’s probably stayed the same.

Today me would have slapped 2003 me.

I would have seen this coming.

Generals like war.

[Traildogbob]

10. Well just damn

Some body gotta call Stephanie Miller Wednesday to ask Carlos about this stance. Oh, never mind, there will be no Wednesday.
Today’s date: 4-7. Coincidence.
Senior Chief Malcom Nance, say’s Coincidences take lots of planning.
How many of my guitars can I take to a rapture with me? I wanna jam with Petty.
People say, strings never die in heaven, so that’s good news.
Bye ya’ll. We tried. Guess we gonna be the Dark side of the Earth. Our astronauts will be the Arch and have to repopulate Earth. Well, the new Earth will have Canadian genes in it’s people, so that’s a good thing.
We could not even make it to celebrate weed day.😔
Fuck you trump and your cult of fools, murderers rapists and thieves. Our stolen cash will do you no good in hell. It will feed the flames.

[dweller]

12. WTF Tdb ? !?

Tomorrow is my birthday … now im not going to ever be 72 ?

well damn
😕



✌🏻

[Traildogbob]

14. I could be wrong

I just turned 74, shits breaking like a 1954 Plymouth that has lots of miles. That car would be 72.
Think of the Bday party you can have tomorrow, if his ass is drug out of our house by the best of our military and locked up with his cohorts!
My BDay wish for your, 72 comes and many more prosperous ones follow without MAGA control.
Just us radical liberal woke old hippies.

[niyad]

19. Wishing you an early Happy Birthday, just in case!

[dweller]

20. IKR ?

😐

TY

✌🏻

[nitpicked]

11. There's a small matter of the Caspian Sea

And established shipping routes between Russian and Iran, according to Google.

[-misanthroptimist]

13. He's right

Remember when the German citizenry rose up deposed Hitler when Germany was bombed to rubble? Oh, wait. That didn't happen. There's no reason to believe it will happen in Iran.

Clark is wrong in all likelihood.

[BidenRocks]

15. I listened to this and was struck by one small detail!

We are NOT in a declared war which allows your wish list fantasies to be realized.

You used to be employed by us. Now you are a free lancer stoking the flames of war.

I will bash him because he is NO LONGER a Democratic figure!

What's in HIS portfolio! We live in an age of war profiteering and everyone needs to be looked at that may have a conflict and is attempting to influence public opinion! War is good for media paychecks!

He is talking tactics of an ILLEGAL war! Get congressional approval and I will shut up!

[senseandsensibility]

16. Good point

I was struck by his complete inability to criticize (even mildly) the lack of legality for any of this, the fact that civilian targets are not to be hit according to NATO (didn't he oversee NATO at one point) or the breaking apart of NATO altogether through threats and unilateral action.

[niyad]

17. Disappointed, not entirely surprised.

[niyad]

18. I just read his wiki page. .a real eye-opener.

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. This disappointing