Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Is Wesley Clark Not All That Smart? [John Podhoretz]
This is a totally serious question. I know Gen. Clark was a Rhodes scholar and was Supreme Commander of NATO, but the once and possibly future Democratic candidate for president just said something on The O'Reilly Factor that might even cause eyes to roll at Daily Kos. He said it was silly to assume we'd be greeted as liberators in Baghdad. O'Reilly said, Well, we went into Kabul and were greeted that way. To which Clark responded, "Yes, but the Afghan people had been oppressed by the Taliban." O'Reilly then said, You mean people weren't oppressed in Iraq? Well, yes, there was unhappiness there, said Clark. Or he might have said there was some happiness there, I couldn't quite tell. Either way, Clark basically just said the people of Iraq weren't really that oppressed by Saddam's rule.
01/10 08:50 PM
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