General Wesley Clark on the Mancow Show

April 9, 2008

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.

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.

No Torture, No Exceptions

Washington Monthly | March 2008

orture—the word evokes images of dark, damp dungeons and outlandish punishments and pain. But torture can take many forms, and it lives today. Incredibly, Americans are part of it. And we must put a stop to it.

Torture is illegal, ineffective, and morally wrong. The United States has signed numerous treaties condemning torture and abjuring its practice. Those treaties are the law of the land. And, yes, waterboarding is torture: in the past, we convicted and punished foreign nationals for torture by waterboarding. There are no legal loopholes permitting torture in "exceptional cases." After all, those were the same excuses used by the torturers we once condemned.

The honor of the American man-at-arms is one of our most potent weapons. It is enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. It encourages our enemies to surrender to us on the battlefield. It protects any of our own soldiers who may have been captured. It encourages noncombatants and civilians to trust us and cooperate willingly. And it does not countenance the abuse of captives in our care.

General Wesley Clark on the Alex Bennett Program on Sirius Satellite Radio

November 28, 2007

General Wesley Clark on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC

November 28, 2007
transcript by Reg NYC

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.