Clark Criticizes Bush's Enemy Challenge

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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/12/04/clark/index.html

Dec. 4, 2003 | NASHUA, N.H. (AP) -- Criticizing President Bush for challenging enemy forces to "bring 'em on'' earlier in the Iraq occupation, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said Thursday only someone who has not witnessed combat "would ever say anything as fatuous'' as the commander in chief's remark.

"You don't make policy by taunting the enemy,'' said Clark, a retired Army general who was wounded during the Vietnam War. Bush was a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard during the conflict but never flew in battle. "Only someone who hasn't seen war firsthand would ever say anything as fatuous as 'bring 'em on.'"

Clark told students and faculty at Daniel Webster College that Bush had played a game of bait-and-switch by suggesting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a national security threat following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

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