Reply #89: Please provide a transcript.....cause your eyes are not

[FrenchieCat]

providing me with any "facts".....just your recollection....

Here's some EVIDENCE from Factcheck.org that Clark was AGAINST the IRAQ WAR going way back....
http://www.factcheck.org/article130.html

RNC's Gillespie Gets It Wrong on Clark and Iraq
He claims Clark's House testimony in 2002 shows he supported military action, but Richard Perle was there and he didn't think so.
Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie has been saying retired Gen. Wesley Clark was really for war in Iraq -- but the record doesn't bear that out.

“Wesley Clark claims to have always been against the war in Iraq. Y et, testimony he gave to the House Armed Services Committee two weeks before Congress passed the Iraq Congressional Resolution says otherwise,” Gillespie writes on the RNC website. Gillespie made similar remarks in a speech given Jan. 15, saying of Clark ’s testimony “There was no stronger case made” for going to war.

But Gillespie gives only selective excerpts of Clark ’s testimony to the House Armed Services Committee Sept. 26, 2002 . Actually, Clark repeatedly urged patience and diplomacy, criticized the Bush administration for undercutting "friends and allies" and said “I think it's not time yet to use force against Iraq .”

Don't take our word for it: Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a strong supporter of going to war, testified with Clark at the same hearing and said, “I think Gen. Clark doesn’t want to see us use military force . . . . The bottom line is he just doesn’t want to take action. He wants to wait.”

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The Rest of the Story
http://www.factcheck.org/article130.html
But Clark actually was making a case for waiting, and using strong diplomacy backed by a threat of force, not for going to war.

Here's some of what else Clark said (with emphasis added by FactCheck.org):

...Such congressional resolution need not, at this point, authorize the use of force.

. . . . In the near term, time is on our side and we should endeavor to use the United Nations if at all possible. This may require a period of time for inspections . . .

. . . . We have to work this problem in a way to gain worldwide legitimacy and understanding for the concerns that we rightly feel and for our leadership.

. . . .We should not be using force until the personnel, the organizations, the plans that will be required for post conflict Iraq are prepared and ready . . . . We need to be ready because if suddenly Saddam Hussein's government collapses and we don't have everything ready to go, we're going to have chaos in that region.

AND I LEAVE YOU WITH THIS FAMOUS CLARK QUOTE....
"You will determine whether rage or reason guides the United States in the struggle to come. You will choose whether we are known for revenge or compassion. You will choose whether we, too, will kill in the name of God, or whether in His name, we can find a higher civilization and a better means of settling our differences"
Wes Clark