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
I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.
Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.
Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan. ... We have a long way to go before victory, or at least some measure of success, is assured.
Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan,
I think what you have to understand about the armed forces, ... it's a competitive bureaucracy. People enter it at the bottom and they come out at the top. There's a lot of gossip. There are some sharp elbows in there,
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.
It is definitely succeeding in putting the pressure on at the strategic and at the tactical level,
My opponents on the inside have said that the American people shouldn't hold them responsible for everything that happens because we don't understand how things work in Washington,
I will strengthen them so that we can solve problems together, so that the use of military force is our last resort, not our first, and if America must act with force we can call on the military, financial, and moral resources of others.
I think it's great if individuals invest in the stock market, but not as a substitute for insuring the solvency of Social Security.
I think the evidence of the mass graves is confirmation of the terrible wrong done here.
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.
He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced. We don't tolerate that in modern American society. We certainly didn't tolerate it in the U.S. Army and we don't tolerate it here. It's wrong.
He's going to run on the idea that he's the commander-in-chief, that it's about his patriotism, that he kept us safe after 9/11, ... The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy.