My letter to NY Post re: Franks Blasts Prez Clark

[robbedvoter]

The article is here:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/10397.htm

First of all, thank you Vincent Morris for that title. I didn't realize how grand "Prez Clark sounds. President Clark is even better.
As to the breaking news that Pentagon generals announce publicly that they are against Bush's rivals - duh!
Last we heard from Franks he was apologizing for being right about troop deployment in Iraq and was assuring us that Rumsfeld has everything planned about the war and aftermath, and everything he, Franks said to the contrary was wrong, wrong, wrong!.
Some beg to differ
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1081191,00.html

[leetrisck]

1. I didn't really see that Franks blasted President Clark

He just said he wasn't going to vote for him. Then they went on to quote Shelton

[Spazito]

2. For Shelton to make vague references regarding "integrity and ...

character" without saying what they are is just plain slimy and Rovian in it's content. For Franks to quote Shelton is, again, slimy, imo.

[mopinko]

3. clarkies, add light please

why DID clark get fired???

[mmonk]

4. His retirement was speeded up

by two months for an appointee Cohen wanted. Pentagon politics. Clark wasn't always with their "program". He went over their heads to Clinton.

[Spazito]

5. Here is a great article that discusses that very issue...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16795

Start at this paragraph if you don't want to read the whole article ( I highly recommend reading the whole thing tho)

Clark has been open about the fact that he was hurt when his command was cut short. He offered clues about why he was treated so badly in his first book, Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat, published in 2001, and recollections of highly placed civilians in the Clinton administration confirm what he wrote. Clark displeased the defense secretary, Bill Cohen, and General Hugh Shelton, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by arguing strenuously that—contrary to Clinton's decision— the option of using ground troops in Kosovo should remain open. But the problem seems to have gone further back. Some top military leaders objected to the idea of the US military fighting a war for humanitarian reasons. (Clark had also favored military action against the genocide in Rwanda.)