Wesley Clark
Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr.is a retired General of the United States Army. He graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and the Presidential Medal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth23 December 1944
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.
Here, someone actually shoved me out the way to get to my own fund-raiser, and no it wasn't Al Gore, ... Actually there is only one endorsement I care about, and it's from all of you.
No administration has the right to tell Americans that to dissent is disloyal and to disagree is unpatriotic.
More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, ... They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq - a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate.
When we started after Osama bin Laden, we really decided to go after the Taliban. And we seemed to be content to kick the Taliban out of Kandahar. And then we let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.
We've hit at his power plants because they're essential to running every part of his military machine, ... and this has proven to be effective.
Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey.
We were ... not surprised but disappointed by the very stubborn and obdurate reaction we encountered in Belgrade,
It was a pilot flying somewhere in the area that day who saw something I thought was incredibly powerful as he described it. I saw the whole video tape and we had a picture of the pilot he was pointing it out on the map. I did not want to release it because we had not finished the investigation,
It was a pilot flying somewhere in the area that day,
I've done more with a better plan for jobs here in eight days than this president's done in two and a half years,
It may take another few days because you have ... small pockets of resistance from place to place,
It's essential to have boots and eyes on the ground.
Tammy ... woke up without her legs 10 days after a rocket-propelled grenade exploded in her lap as she flew her helicopter.