Reply #80: Bill Clinton sent his Secretary of State to North Korea's Capital

[Tom Rinaldo]

to meet personally with Dear Leader Kim when tensions that might have led to war with North Korea were building. Clark knows Albright well and respects her, and Albright is backing Hillary. Bill Clinton sent Under Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia to help negotiate peace in that war torn nation through negotiations with all the players in that region. Wes Clark worked side by side with Holbrooke in Bosnia on the Dayton Accords, and Hollbrooke is backing Hillary. Although Bill Clinton did not take Wes Clark's advice to intervene to stop the slaughter of genocide in Rwanda, he later did something few Presidents would even consider for an instant doing. Clinton travelled to Africa and apologized in person for his failure of leadership in not acting to stop the slaughter of nearly a million people. Wes Clark of course knows that about Bill Clinton, and Bill Clinton is backing Hillary.

Wes Clark believes that the world is much closer to the brink of an escalating spiral of military violence right now than most other politicians in America have the vision to realize. If war expands out from Iraq it won't matter what domestic policies any of our Democratic candidates plan to implement should they become President; there will not be any funds available for any domestic initiatives, instead we will face cuts in the ones we have now. Issues of war and peace weigh heavy on General Clark. He has personal reasons to believe that of the Democrats now running for President, Hillary Clinton will bring the best team to Washington to advance diplomatic solutions to complex international issues that threaten the peace and security not only of ourselves, but of hundreds of millions more in other nations around the globe. I think that is a principled position to take.