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

General Wesley Clark on Dan Abrams (MSNBC)

April 1, 2008
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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
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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.

11/28/07 - General Wesley Clark on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC

 
General Wesley Clark on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC

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General Wesley Clark on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC

November 28, 2007
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Brian Lehrer: How about a Hillary Clinton/Wesley Clark ticket? How about another war in Kosovo. Brian Lehrer on WNYC, good morning everyone. After the news former NATO Commander Wesley Clark. He served under President Clinton, now campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Among other things, he is predicting that President Bush will declare victory in Iraq, complete with a parade, and believe it or not, he calls for sending more U.S. troops to the Balkans now, which he says could again become a major security threat.

General Wesley Clark is with me, the former NATO Commander under President Clinton, who ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2004. This year, he's supporting Hillary Clinton and has been campaigning with her, fueling speculation he could even be her running mate. General, it's so nice to have you with us. Welcome to WNYC.

11/21/07 - General Wesley Clark on Air Talk (KPCC) with Larry Mantle

 
General Wesley Clark on Air Talk (KPCC) with Larry Mantle

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General Wesley Clark on Air Talk (KPCC) with Larry Mantle

November 21, 2007
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Larry Mantle: This is Air Talk. I'm Larry Mantle. Great to be with you. We are joined by General Wesley Clark, Democratic presidential candidate from four years ago. He was a four-star general who led the NATO forces in Europe during the time of Bill Clinton's administration. He is also frequently in southern California, a Senior Fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA and he also is here frequently on behalf of Senator Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign. And General Clark has also just written his autobiography with Tom Carhart – A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country. The book is just out. General Clark, pleasure to have you with us on Air Talk.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Thank you. Great to be with you.

Larry Mantle: First, I'm wondering how you're feeling about this presidential campaign season. Do you have mixed feelings about not being in the race yourself?

11/20/07 - General Wesley Clark on the Stephanie Miller Show

 
General Wesley Clark on the Stephanie Miller Show

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November 20, 2007
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Stephanie Miller: This is a time when people really needed real leaders and not fake photo-op leaders like President Bush. If only there was someone that knew how to lead that could call now.

(phone Rings)

Stephanie Miller: YES! Chris, who is it?

Chris: It's the author of A Time To Lead, General Wesley Clark.

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

General Wesley Clark on MSNBC's Morning Joe

April 3. 2008
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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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