Reply #29: Golly, looks like these wingnuts hate Clark every bit

[LandOLincoln]

as much as the other wingnuts--and I'd be worried if they didn't. As far as I'm concerned the political spectrum is not a straight line but a circle where the two extremes meet and meld into one sanctimonious, self-righteous, hate-filled mass--or mess.

& somebody should tell these clowns that the originator of the "perfumed prince" quote, one U.S. Army Col. (ret) David H. Hackworth, later had a total change of heart regarding Wes Clark at least (IIRC according to Hack, Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf were "perfumed princes" too).

Here's Hack after his Clark Conversion, including the reason(s) for same:

"For the record, I never served with Clark. But after spending three hours interviewing the man for Maxim's November issue, I'm impressed. He is insightful, he has his act together, he understands what makes national security tick – and he thinks on his feet somewhere around Mach 3. No big surprise, since he graduated first in his class from West Point, which puts him in the supersmart set with Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur and Maxwell Taylor.

"Clark was so brilliant, he was whisked off to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and didn't get his boots into the Vietnam mud until well after his 1966 West Point class came close to achieving the academy record for the most Purple Hearts in any one war. When he finally got there, he took over a 1st Infantry Division rifle company and was badly wounded.

(snip)

"No doubt he's made his share of enemies. He doesn't suffer fools easily and wouldn't have allowed the dilettantes who convinced Dubya to do Iraq to even cut the White House lawn. So he should prepare for a fair amount of dart-throwing from detractors he's ripped into during the past three decades.

"Hey, I am one of those: I took a swing at Clark during the Kosovo campaign when I thought he screwed up the operation, and I called him a 'Perfumed Prince.' Only years later did I discover from his book and other research that I was wrong – the blame should have been worn by British timidity and William Cohen, U.S. SecDef at the time."


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