The man has been busy, as the article confirms!
General Wes Clark will be speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday, February 10, 2006.Start: Feb 10 2006 - 8:00am
End: Feb 10 2006 - 5:00pm
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http://www.cfr.org/Clark Met with Bloggers in L.A. for a 1 hour session 2/4/06 including Arianna Huffington, Kos, Alysheba, Shockwave, Reality Bites Back, Kevin Drum. Reality Bites Back's diary :: ::
I, and Kossacks Hekebolos, Alysheba, and Shockwave who were also there, can say with conviction, that not only is Clark no DLC shill, you will be amazed by how truly progressive his policies are.
Now let me just start by making one thing perfectly clear - General Clark is hell bent on the Democrats winning back at least one house of Congress - at stake he says - American democracy itself. `We all warned,' stated Clark `that if Bush won the presidency we would lose the court. Bush won. We lost the court. But if we lose in 2006, losing the courts will seem insignificant.' Democracy itself, freedom and liberty, our way of life, the very brotherhood that binds America together as a nation, that is what General Clark passionately urged those present to defend. That, he made crystal clear in somber tone, was on the verge of vanishing from the face of this earth; brought to this point by a power-crazed Republican leadership that seeks nothing less than total domination.
Now here's where the General earns his pension. I asked him straight up how the Democrats, prone to reason and debate, could compete with a Republican machine that exploits fear and crafts strategies to manipulate the instincts of our reptilian brain. I made the point that a proportion of the electorate was wired, through conditioning, so that any attack or threat to the nation would default them into the Republicans' hands. His response was quick, and deliberate: 'the Democrats need to get out there and engage the Republicans head to head on national security! We need to take the fight right to them! The Democrats need to make that the focus of their being; that the Republicans, who have so completely sacrificed the security of this nation through incompetence and willful indifference have not only failed to secure America, they have unified our enemies, depleted our resources and stretched our military to the brink. All before the watchful eyes of the world and our enemies. Enemies that will now see America as more vulnerable in the inability of our leadership to succeed.'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/5/154255/4964 More reviews by National Bloggers on 2/4/06 meeting-http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/5/14345/52746http://subintsoc.net/situationroom/?p=974Clark calls for dialogue on IranBy KATHERINE GYPSON AND PHILLIP TURNER
Monday, January 30, 2006
UPI Correspondents
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060130-035202-1930rTHE REAL STATE OF THE UNION 2006
THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
Monday, January 30, 2006
General Wesley K. Clark Addresses New America Foundation Audience (1/30/06) on Capitol Hill: "The Real State of the Union 2006" http://securingamerica.com/node/560Wes Clark, Of course is fighting for a Dem victory in '06 by supporting congressional and governorial candidates:http://www.iavapac.org/http://www.texaspopulists.com/node/704http://www.houstondemocrats.com/archives/2006/01/wesley_clark_in_1.htmlhttp://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/006695.htmlhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x25263http://www.thenewpolitics.com/2006/01/lets_be_gratefu.htmlWes Clark will be on CSpan BookNotes on 2/11-CSpan & 2/12-CSpan 2
Book TV will broadcast General Wesley Clark's interview of journalist David Rieff Sunday, February 12 at 6:00 pm EST/ 7:00 pm CST and at 9:00 pm EST/ 8:00 pm CST
This week on After Words, journalist David Rieff explains the history of interventionism and how it has influenced U.S. foreign policy in his book, "At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention."
Mr. Rieff was a supporter of intervening militarily during both the Rwandan and Bosnian Genocide, until the war in Iraq changed his opinion. He now believes that intervention should only be used as a last resort.
He is interviewed by Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) Former NATO Allied Supreme Commander, who led the of the military operation in Kosovo.
http://securingamerica.com/node/577 Plus the man actually has to make a living. He's not getting a congressional salary, and doesn't have a personal fortune.