Reply #59: Clark is a Plan B for me only if---

[eridani]

--he publicly repudiates the Project for a New American Century

http://www.denniskucinich.us/article.php?story=20040102155547526

Studying up this morning on approaches for world peace, I was reading the infamous document Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century from the Republican William Kristol's think tank Project for the New American Century and I ran across this picture of Wesley Clark on page 16 of the publication (page 28 of the PDF). That seemed oddly out of place...but perhaps it shouldn't have. When questioned about Clark's failure to have registered as a Democrat until recently, Jeff Cohen remarked today "It's hard to imagine how a longtime Republican can win the Democratic nomination. You can't beat a real Republican, Bush, with a recently lapsed Republican, Clark". Why don't all of us Democrats, Greens, and Independents just re-register as Republicans so they don't have to come to our party?

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2003/11/14/74127/713/192

"And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O'Neill - people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there, because we've got some tough challenges ahead" (Wesley Clark, Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner, Little Rock, AR, 5/11/2001).

http://pilger.carlton.com/print/124759

As for Iraq's alleged "weapons of mass destruction", these were dismissed, in so many words, as a convenient excuse, which it is. "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification," it says, "the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."