By BOB TUKE
a Marine veteran, is chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party.
Tennessean.com

The president needs a plan to get United States troops out of Iraq. He needs to exercise personal leadership to make this happen rather than pushing the decision-making off onto his ground commanders, as he recently proposed to do. It is an inappropriate responsibility to place on ground commanders because the decision will have political and international diplomacy ramifications as well as military.

The president should direct the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a real plan with a specific timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals. Such a timetable need not be disclosed, but it must exist. The plan should be cleared by the Defense and State Departments and implemented honestly and forthrightly.

I am a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War. I fought the war (unlike the president, the vice president or any of his senior cabinet officers) in 1971 during the so-called Vietnamization phase. I was part of President Richard Nixon's "secret plan to end the war." It was a fraud and a failure.

November 22, 2005
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Bill Hemmer: Now the future of the US military in Iraq is tied directly to the strength of Iraqi forces on the ground. So then how strong are they today? General Wesley Clark, Fox News analyst and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander is my guest now and General, good morning to you.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Good morning, Bill.

Bill Hemmer: How do you assess those forces in Iraq?

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: I think they're getting better. I think there's hope that the forces can make a very strong contribution to Iraq's security. The question is how soon and how loyal the forces will be, depending on the government and as the US withdrawal starts.

General Wesley Clark on Your World with Neil Cavuto

November 21, 2005
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Neil Cavuto: Even if Zarqawi is not dead, is he as good as dead man walking with Jordanians and now other Muslims turning on him?

Let us ask former Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark. He is also a Fox News military analyst, former presidential candidate as well. General, good to have you.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Good to be with you, Neil.

Neil Cavuto: What if he were dead?
GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Well, I think it would be a help. At least it's a blow publicly against his network. But you'd have to believe that there are back-ups, there are other people, probably who are thirsting with ambition to run it, and they may be as effective as Zarqawi is, and they would take some credit for the actions that are being done. So, I think it's a mistake to count on the fact that a single person can be eliminated and end the problem in Iraq.

November 17, 2005
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Sean Hannity: Joining us now is the host of "Morning in America," Fox News contributor Bill Bennett, and also former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, also a Fox News Contributor General Wesley Clark is with us. You know General, I gotta tell you something, I have had it with members of your party undermining our troops, undermining a Commander-in-Chief while we are at war, calling the Commander-in-Chief a liar, saying that he hyped, saying that he misled. They have done all of this without any evidence or proof. I wa-

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Well, I think there's a lot of proof out there, Sean.

Sean Hannity: Hang on a second. No there's n- You're calling the-

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: And I'll be happy to talk about all of that in the show.

Sean Hannity: You wanna call the- You wanna call- Wait a minute. You wanna call the President a liar?

General Wesley Clark on Fox News Live Sunday
November 13, 2005
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Greg Jarrett: Fox News Alert: It happened a short time ago. This woman, a failed homicide bomber in Amman, Jordan captured by Jordanian police. And then dramatically on Jordanian television, she confessed. She said, "I didn't plan anything. My husband did. We entered the hotel, stood in separate corners." She went on to describe how her husband blew himself up, but her detonator switch apparently didn't work, and she fled, and she confessed to all of it on Jordanian television. She was nabbed today by Jordanian police at a safe house somewhere in Amman, Jordan.

Let's bring into this conversation for reaction former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark, a Fox News analyst. General, always good to see you. Your reaction to this?

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: I think it's terrific that the Jordanian police caught her. Secondly, I'm horrified, just horrified by the crime, and even more horrified that this woman could have walked into a wedding, seeing women and children there, and tried to blow them up. I just can't imagine, but maybe this a kind of instant, now that we've got her, we'll get a better understanding, and certainly it should give us a help in running out the network, but as I've said before, this is a very dangerous indication. He's, Zarqawi, has a network in Jordan with people like this who are willing to murder innocent people.

General Wesley Clark on Your World with Neil Cavuto

Fox news panel discussion
November 10, 2005
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Neil Cavuto: This time it's his own people calling for Zarqawi's head. Is this a tipping point in the war on terror.

With us now my friend, Colonel Oliver North, the host of War Stories and author of "Assassins" ; former Supreme Court- Supreme Commander of NATO forces Wesley Clark, also a Fox News contributor, although he could be a court judge, you never know; former director of Central Intelligence Admiral Stansfield Turner; and here with me my friend, Fox News war correspondent Steve Harrigan.