Wesley Clark
Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr.is a retired General of the United States Army. He graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and the Presidential Medal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth23 December 1944
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
and we're working now to see that they're deployed within an effective and unified chain of command.
I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.
This is a guy who will fly halfway around the world for a photo opportunity, but he won't (go) halfway across town to honor American servicemen being buried in Arlington National Cemetery,
all of the operational assets that he requires in terms of extra assets to prosecute the air campaign with maximum effect.
This is what my expertise, my leadership experience, my whole career has pointed and prepared me for,
He's going to run on the idea that he's the commander-in-chief, that it's about his patriotism, that he kept us safe after 9/11, ... The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy.
I'm not attacking the president because he is attacking terrorists. I'm attacking him because he's not attacking terrorists.
I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.
Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City, and later when we went to Oxford before we got married, we always went to the Catholic church.
before I made the decision to run. ... I said I'm not really not interested in even talking about it.
I'm running to be the president of the United States, not the vice president, and I will not accept that nomination, ... Meet the Press.
It's a whole set of communities which have been devastated, ... And what you see when you look at this is a widespread systematic pattern of ethnic cleansing. It's a familiar pattern over the last 10 years.
We've hit at his power plants because they're essential to running every part of his military machine, ... and this has proven to be effective.
We're bringing in addition reconnaissance means and others, and I think we are having an effect, ... As I said in Washington a couple of days ago, we're winning, Milosevic is losing, and he knows it.