1/24/09 - General Wesley Clark on CNN Saturday Morning

General Wesley Clark on CNN Saturday Morning

January 24, 2009
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T.J. Holmes: …President Obama fulfilling one of his campaign promises – shut down the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. He also intends to get into to possibly repeal the ‘Don't ask, don't tell' policy which made President Clinton kind of unpopular with some of the US troops. Could Obama be looking at the same kind of chilly reception? Well, let's bring in retired 4-star general and former NATO Commander Wesley Clark, also former presidential candidate. I'll throw that one in there as well. Sir, let's start with Gitmo. Can you do this? Is this the right thing to do – to say you'll shut it down? To get a date for shutting it down without a plan for what you're going to do with these guys?

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: I think it's absolutely the right thing to do. The detention center at Guantanamo has cause the United States no end of problems. First of all, apparently a lot of the people who were there shouldn't be there. Secondly, it's a non-transparent facility. It's there as an alternative to an established system of justice. Let's use our system of justice. We've got the best system of justice in the world and it can certainly handle bad actors like Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

11/30/07 - General Wesley Clark on Don Siegelman at the Alabama JJ Dinner (Excerpts)


General Wesley Clark on Don Siegelman at the Alabama JJ Dinner (Excerpts)

November 30, 2007 | Commentary at Left in Alabama

Introduction by Ron Sparks

Thank you. It's great to be here with you in Alabama.

We're both Southern states. We both like football. Now there's a rumor going around ... You know, we've been loaning you, over the years, a lot of football coaches down here. You know, the Bear came from Fordyce, Arkansas -- and we never got him back.

And now, some of y'all saying "Roll Tide" -- you might be really happy 'cause the rumor is we might get a guy from Camden back.

I can't announce that. I mean I don't know. But we're really excited about it in Arkansas.

I do feel... It's really great to be here with you. I've got so many friends here and so many good people.

First time I came to Alabama, I was at the ... it was 1993 ... and I was at Montgomery at Maxwell Air Force Base at the Air Command Staff College and I had to take a two week training course that they give to 2 star generals. And so, I was down for the course and my wife was with me and we had nothing to do on Saturday and so we thought, "Well, let's just take a look.... let's just drive around Montgomery. We've never been here before."

100 Year Vision

By Wes Clark


Looking ahead 100 years, the United States will be defined by our environment, both our physical environment and our legal, Constitutional environment. America needs to remain the most desirable country in the world, attracting talent and investment with the best physical and institutional environment in the world. But achieving our goals in these areas means we need to begin now. Environmentally, it means that we must do more to protect our natural resources, enabling us to extend their economic value indefinitely through wise natural resource extraction policies that protect the beauty and diversity of our American ecosystems -- our seacoasts, mountains, wetlands, rain forests, alpine meadows, original timberlands and open prairies. We must balance carefully the short-term needs for commercial exploitation with longer-term respect for the natural gifts our country has received. We may also have to assist market-driven adjustments in urban and rural populations, as we did in the 19th Century with the Homestead Act.

9/29/07 - General Wesley Clark on Voice of America

 
General Wesley Clark on Voice of America

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September 29, 2007
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General Wesley Clark on Voice of America

September 29, 2007
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Voiceover: Press Conference USA on VOA News Now. Newsmakers from American and around the world speak journalists in an unscripted and unrehearsed discussion about the critical issues facing the United States and the world. Here’s your host on this edition of Press Conference USA, Carol Castiel.


Judith Latham: Welcome to Press Conference USA on VOA News Now. I’m Judith Latham, sitting in for Carol Castiel. Joining me on the panel today is VOA Newsroom Correspondent Meredith Buel, former Bureau Chief in Islamabad and Jerusalem who is a specialist in the Middle East and South Asia. The United States today faces the challenge of two simultaneous wars – in Iraq and Afghanistan plus a constant terrorist threat. The results of last year’s congressional election indicated that the American public wants a change in the course set by the current administration. And recent polls suggest that about two-thirds of the US electorate is critical of the conduct of the war in Iraq. In a book published just this month: A Time to Lead: for Duty, Honor and Country, the 4-star general who formerly served as NATO Supreme Allied Commander – Europe, offers the reader his lessons in leadership that works at this critical juncture in his nation’s history.

9/17/07 - General Wesley Clark on the Michael Medved Show

 
General Wesley Clark on the Michael Medved Show

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September 17, 2007
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Voiceover: And now America's number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the Michael Medved Show.

Michael Medved: And another great day in this greatest nation on earth and a great day to get serious about what might be our next war or our next war after that and who better to talk to about that than a 4-star general in the US Army, someone who has actually commanded our troops in a war that uh, at least in purely military terms, was highly successful – the war against Serbia over Kosovo. Wesley Clark was a presidential candidate, he was general and chief of NATO forces. Uh, he is the author of a new book called A Time to Lead, for Duty, Honor and Country, a book that appears at a time when uh, General Clark has just endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States and there's also an endorsement quote from President Bill Clinton, with whom General Clark served that says, "A powerful story of how America empowered a young boy to become a man, a soldier and a hero." General Clark, thanks for agreeing to speak with us.

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Michael, thank you – I'm happy to be here.

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