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4/1/08 - General Wesley Clark on The Verdict with Dan Abrams

General Wesley Clark on Dan Abrams (MSNBC)

April 1, 2008
Transcript by Reg NYC

Dan Abrams: Tonight, Hillary Clinton compares herself to Rocky, saying she's going the distance as the Democratic Party continues its call to end the fight early. And as they keep fighting, a senior advisor to Senator Clinton admits he's warning super delegates about the Reverend Wright effect? And Attorney General Mukasey suggests, 9/11 could've been prevented if wiretap laws had been different. Another edition of our segment Why America Hates Washington." Vedict starts now.

Hi everyone. Welcome to the show. Democratic Party leaders looking to avoid a prolonged fight continue to use coded terms like 'avoiding a bloodbath,' 'timetables' and 'the will of the people' to subtly nudge Hillary Clinton from the race. Despite that push, Clinton today brought up a legendary boxer as she vowed to fight on.

Hillary Clinton (on tape): Well, could you imagine if Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum stairs and said, 'Well, I guess that's about far enough'? (laughter) That's not the way it works. Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common.

Dan Abrams: Never mind that Rocky lost in that movie to his opponent Apollo Creed. It sure feels like the ref, Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, wants to call the fight early, asking the undecided super delegates to make a decision well before the late-August convention.

3/24/08 - General Wesley Clark on Tavis Smiley

General Wesley Clark on Tavis Smiley (PBS)

March 24, 2008
Transcript by Reg NYC

Tavis Smiley: General Wesley Clark served as NATO Supreme Allied Commander from 1997 to 2000 and then went on to seek the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2004. His most recent book is A Time To Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country. He joins us tonight from New York. General Clark, nice to have you back on the program, Sir.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Thank you, Tavis. Nice to be with you.

Tavis Smiley: Let me go right at it. What do you make of the fact that we've been there five years now and as of Easter Sunday, 4000 dead?

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Well, first of all, my heart goes out to the families and to the men and women in uniform who have volunteered and served in this country and done it so courageously. It's just a terrible burden we're putting on the men and women in the Armed Forces and their families, and I think about them first. No one would've believed, Tavis, that if we had said five years ago that five years later we'd have more troops in Iraq then we did to do the invasion AND that we'd have lost 4000 fine young men and women, no one would've believed it. It's been a war we didn't have to fight. It's been a war that's been mismanaged. The- been an excessive and over-reliant on the military, a lack of good policy in the region. We've alienated our friends around the world, and we've served as a cause for Al Qaeda recruiting. And the, the real winner of the war is, so far, has been Iran.

4/3/08 - General Wesley Clark on MSNBC's Morning Joe

General Wesley Clark on MSNBC's Morning Joe

April 3. 2008
Transcript by RegNYC

Joe Scarborough: Let's bring in right now General Wesley Clark. He is of course-

Mika Brzezinski: Aah, Wesley Clark.

Joe Scarborough: -a retired General, MSNBC analyst and a supporter of Hillary Clinton. General, thank you for being with us.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Great to be with you, Joe.

Joe Scarborough: Some interesting developments in Iraq, we find out that John McCain is surprised, and I guess some American Generals probably were too, that the Prime Minister of Iraq decided to take his troops and go South to Basra and launch this counteroffensive without us even knowing about it.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Seems remarkable that we didn't have a better source of information and closer relationships with the Prime Minister and the Iraqi Security Forces, but it is their country. And one of the problems we've had from the very outset is we never quite had the right legal framework to justify the American involvement and to integrate our efforts closely with the Iraqi political system, and we've never quite been able to reach all sides of the Iraqi political system. You know, one of the most disturbing things about it, Joe, is not that Maliki's forces didn't blitz through Basra and destroy all the militias, but in fact the end of the fighting was more or less negotiated by the Iranians as they worked with all the factions there to get them to lay down their arms or put their arms back in hiding at least and stop killing each other. So, that's an, that's a demonstration of where real power lies, and it's quite, it's quite somber when you look at the results there.

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3/17/08 - General Wesley Clark on MSNBC's Morning Joe

General Wesley Clark on MSNBC's Morning Joe

March 17. 2008
Transcript by RegNYC

Joe Scarborough: Hey, welcome back to Morning Joe. Great to have you with us. A beautiful shot-

Mika Brzezinski: Mmm.

Joe Scarborough: -of the Rockefeller Plaza. Right now though, let's bring in General Wesley Clark. He's an MSNBC analyst and also author of A Time To Lead: For Duty, Honor, and Country. General Wesley Clark, thank you for being with us.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Thank you, Joe.

Joe Scarborough: Yesterday, General, of course The New York Times 'Week in Review' talking about the five-year anniversary. Five years is upon us. Tell us, General, five years later. W-what position has the war in Iraq put America in?

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Well, Iran is the big winner. The United States military's done very well. We've taken a heavy beating over there, and the military's awfully tired. L-lot of the expected benefits of the invasion didn't come through. We didn't spark democratic change throughout the region, and Al Qaeda used us in Iraq as a recruiting tool. And in fact, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated. So, it's been a really tough five years, and now we're faced with the prospect of what to do. John McCain was over talking about if we make a pullout, maybe the Al Qaeda will take credit for it and say they ran us out of Iraq. But that's not an adequate reason to stay there indefinitely. The Armed Forces can't do that, and really it, we've given the Iraqis an opportunity. They've got to take it.

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11/12/07 - General Wesley Clark on MSNBC News Live (3 segments)

General Wesley Clark on MSNBC News Live

November 12, 2007 1:45 PM
Transcript by Reg NYC

Kris: Congress is putting the finishing touches on this year's Defense Spending Bill. 8.7 billion dollars will be going to high tech missile defense systems. So, why spend so much cash on conventional weapons while fighting an unconventional war on terror? That's the question for MSNBC military analysts retired Four-Star General Wesley Clark and retired U.S. Army Colonel Jack Jacobs. General Clark let me start with you.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Mm hm.

Kris: Why this renewed focus on these missile defense systems?

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Well, it's not renewed. I mean, we've been focusing for a decade or more on high-altitude air defense, on intercepting missiles in flight. The question was: How high can you intercept them and how long a range missile can you intercept, because the longer range they are the faster they are? So, you have to have better technology. The technology's getting better, and the first systems are being deployed now, and there's discussion of a system of deployment in Europe. So, I think this is part of prudent defense planning. It's gone on for a long time, started in the Clinton administration. It's still moving forward.