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WEEKEND UPDATE

A rare weekend update of WMD...

Which Is It Mr. Clark? POTUS Doesn't Get To Change Mind...

Many of his backers expressed surprise when Clark told reporters he probably would have voted to authorize the use of force.

"At the time, I probably would have voted for it, but I think that's too simple a question," The New York Times quoted Clark as saying Thursday.

He then added, the Times said, "I don't know if I would have or not. I've said it both ways, because when you get into this, what happens is you have to put yourself in a position. On balance, I probably would have voted for it."

In a speech Friday to more than 1,000 people jammed into a lecture hall at the University of Iowa and in interviews, Clark underscored his opposition to the war, explaining: "There may be times when you may have to use force, but only as a last resort. "Let's make one thing real clear: I would never have voted for this war, never," Clark said in an interview with The Associated Press.

This story is from the Associated Press via the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Matt's Chat

Oh yeah, this guy is a serious contender for President...he can't make up his mind whether or not he'd vote for war with Iraq or not.

Mark's Remarks

Also, on his Clinton-backed lear jet, with reporters, someone asked him an opinion on an issue, and he had to call his press secretary to tell him what to think. Come on, I hope people are not blinded by the strategy of saying this guy is pro-military. He was in charge in Somalia, in Kosovo, where you wanna talk about brutal American slaughter and disgrace, wow! Oh...the liberals wont bring that up, it was under Clinton. Clark is merely a stalkinghorse for Bill and Hill. If she were to enter the race, she would undercut him and sell him out. The Clintons do not care about their friends, they do not care about their party....They care about America. Wes Clark should know better.
I hear people talk about how smart he is, that he has an MBA. Bush has an MBA!!! However, all I hear are the frat boy comments, etc. Now, from personal experience, having an MBA doesnt make you intelligent, or honest, or reputable. There is a guy in the county I live in who has one and he is none of the above. Clark is a drone, as evidenced by his conversation on his plane. The controlling power in the D party is concerned about Howard Dean, knowing that he is gaining momentum and that he does not stand a chance against Bush. So they throw this guy Clark out there to the wolves. And he is proving no better, even worse- he has no opinion. Bush was lambasted for his lack of experience...people say Clark's naivete is "refreshing." Give me a break.

Bush Rethinking Iraq Strategy (?)

Foreign-policy concerns and domestic politics are prompting the administration to rethink its approach to Iraq, said a number of administration foreign and domestic-policy officials, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity because, as one of them put it, "the president hates seeing internal debates in the paper."
This story is by John Wolcott of Knight Ridder via the Miami Herald.

Matt's Chat

Mark and I were just discussing what we felt Bush needed to do in order to ensure re-election the other day. I believe that one of the things that the president has to do is put some focus on his domestic agenda and start talking about the successes we've experienced in the War on Terror thus far. There is a LOT of good news to tell...but, as the saying goes, good news doesn't sell newspapers. Contrary to what you may have heard, the war is going well. It is justified. And we are winning.

Marks Remarks

More women coming out and working, children getting educated...vacant rape rooms....sounds like good stuff to me....Of course, the real issue for Dems is not what we are doing right or how to progress, no the real issue is how to manipulate the thought processes going in for political gain. It does not matter that our soldiers are getting stereotyped by the medias reports of an America that does not care about Iraq. No, we have to hype up the liberal agenda....thank heavens for Fox News.

Unidentified Poll Claims Americans Don't Support Bush's Iraq Policy (?!)

Matt's Chat

I've seen several articles in cluding this one on VOA News which refers to a poll (note that there is no information about the poll like how many respondents and how the questions were phrased, etc.) in which the majority of americans supposedly don't support the president's policies for Iraq. I seriously doubt that the majority of Americans are against installing democracy in a region of the world that desperately needs it. I don't believe for a minute that the majority of Americans don't support the liberation and reconstruction of Iraq. A good pollster can get results to match whatever viewpoint someone with an agenda wants to support. A responsible journalist would put information about the poll in the article. But there aren't that many responsible journalists left...

Mark's Remarks

Respectable and journalist? I think those are extinct. I really do not care about polls. I guess that makes me aloof and angry, and arrogant, and part of the rich Republicans, even though I have never made over 40 grand in a year. See, the liberals hate people like me, because we see the greatness of America and do not complain for our slice of the pie. We try to go out and get it, rather than begging for govt. programs. We like to have extra dough through cut taxes. We hate govt. intrusion and discriminatory programs. They hate people like me because we see through the lies. So, instead of really taking a cross section, they create and cite a poll from all hte upper west side of manhattan, etc. Sad, really. They cannot take a crap without getting poll numbers to decide how long it should take.