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General Wesley Clark endorses Hillary for president

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Today, I am proud to announce my endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton as President of the United States.

Senator Hillary Clinton has earned the support of millions of Americans in her campaign for president — and today I am pleased to count myself among them. The world has reached a critical point, and we need a leader in the White House with the courage, intelligence and humility to navigate through many troubling challenges to our security at home and abroad. I believe Senator Clinton is that leader, and I whole-heartedly endorse her for President of the United States. Senator Clinton and I share a worldview in which diplomacy is the best first-strike tool in our arsenal; in today’s complicated global system, the United States should be making more friends than enemies.

Never before have so many Americans had our well-being so closely tied to world events. Our economic and national security has become more complicated than ever before, and we deserve a leader who draws on wisdom, compassion, intelligence and moral courage — in short, we need Hillary Clinton. She is tough but fair, a rock-solid leader equal to the many weighty challenges ahead of us.

He’s not running, by the way.

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      • Hilliary, Obama, Edwards.

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        I think the ticket will contain one combination of those three. But what do I know? I though it’d be impossible for Bush to win a second term.

      • Clark was my second choice in 2004, but he's had a very low profile since then, and I don't see what he brings asa VP nominee.  If you're going that route, just go all out and take Jim Webb. 

        • Perhaps Wesley Clark wasn't lavishing attention on Massachusetts, but he spent 2006 very actively campaigning for Democrats nationwide, particularly in the red states.  (I recall reading that in some deep-red states he was the only nationally known Dem. who would be invited.)  Also, he campaigned, and cut an TV ad, for Ned Lamont in Connecticut.

          • …but for a VP pick you want someone who'll bring people onto the ticket.  Clark hustled in 2006, but I don't think he has the name-weight to pull people toward a Clinton campaign.  As I said, if yo uwant a military man, go with Jim Webb.  Frankly, though, I think Hillary is the toughest to find a VP for.  America being what it is, you pretty much need a white male, sadly, and a Mountain West candidate would be the smart one to take.  First thoughts: Bill Ritter, governor of Colorado, or Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana.

  3. …have more company as Newt Gingrich tries his Hamlet act eve later than Fred Thompson. From The Guardian

    Gingrich plans to criss-cross the country in the next few weeks holding 'workshops' with politicians and fundraisers before assessing his chances of winning the Republican nomination over the leading candidates who have already declared: former New York mayor and narrow favourite Rudy Giuliani, film actor and former senator Fred Thompson, war veteran John McCain and millionaire Mormon Mitt Romney.

    Comedy aside, he may prove interesting if he continues to bash Bush's handling of Iraq. That is if he starts talking to US newspapers.

  4. For allowing those of us that are “differently winged” the opportunity to remind the American Public of the only time that the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of Federal Military Forces in a law enforcement function was done by the Clinton Administration.  Why does your statement remind us of that.  Because you were the General in charge of the operation at Waco Texas in which federal military troops were used to attack private property. 

    For all the attacks on perceived rights that the left has regarding the Patriot Act, the only president and the only General to have disregarded current federal law were Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark. 

    Thanks for the Memory.

    • Prove that US military personel were used at Waco.  You can't.  Several investigations tried to prove tjsut that and they couldn't becuase it didn't happen.  Sure military equipment was laoned out, but not people. 

       

      Have you seen any Black helicopters lately?

      • 15 Active Duty Military Personnel were used directly in the raid, as well as the equipment, according to the US Department of Justice's Report

        Appendix B. List of Military Personnel and Equipment

         

          Active DutyPersonnel            15   Texas National GuardPersonnel            13   EquipmentTrack Vehicles               

              Model #  Quantity   Bradley fighting vehicle  (OMZ)   9   Combat Engineer vehicles    (M728)  5   Tank Retrieval vehicle    (M88)  1   Abrams Tanks    (MlAl)  2       TOTAL  17

         

        Additional Military Equipment

          Equipment            Model  Quantity   Helicopters            UH-1  2   Night Vision Goggles            PVF7B5  100   Tents            GP Medium  4   Generators             3 KW   2   Generators              15KW  1   Cots            NA  66   Sand Bags            NA  1,400   Spotlights (portable)            NA  2   Mine Detectors            PSS11  2   Gas Masks            M17  34   Vehicles            M151A2  2   Search Lights              VSS-Xenon (6 million candlepower)  2

        Nice try though.

        • 15 members of the military overseeing equipment at the Waco site–never engaging in any of the actions–is not even remotely close to violating the Posse Comitatus Act.  If it did, the Republican Congressional hearings would have handed him his ass and his Dem opponents would have destroyed him with it 4 years ago.  Neither happened, because there was only smoke from right-wing nuts and no fire.  EaBo, go join your friends at Moveon and continue your silly attacks of 4 star Generals.

           

    • That Posse Comitatus was revoked last year by the security-minded and republican-led 109th congress.

      Thanks for that wiki link EaBo: 

       

      In early 2006, the 109th Congress passed a controversial bill which grants the President the right to commandeer Federal or even State National Guard Troops and use them inside the United States. This bill, entitled the John Warner Defense Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122.ENR), contains a provision, (Section 1076) which allows the President to:

      “…employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to…

      restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States…, where the President determines that,…domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order; suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy…” [3] Senator Patrick Leahy and others have condemned Section 1076 because it effectively nullifies the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C. 331-335) and gives the President the legal ability to define under what conditions martial law may be declared.

       

        

       

      • Went to the congress to get the law changed.  Bill Clinton disregarded the law and had the military raid private property.  There is a difference no?

    • For allowing those of us that are “differently winged” the opportunity to remind the American Public of the only time that the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of Federal Military Forces in a law enforcement function was done by the Clinton Administration.

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      This sentence makes no sense whatsoever.  The Posse Comitatus Act was passed in 1878, long before Clinton. 

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      Because you were the General in charge of the operation at Waco Texas in which federal military troops were used to attack private property.

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      No, there were no federal military troops used at Waco.  The attack was by the FBI (Dept. Justice) and BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Dept Treasury).  The Posse Comitatus Act applies specifically to the US military and units of the national guard (which are mixed state and federal).

      • 15 active duty military personnel under the command of General Wesley Clark were used.  The DOJ admits that.  So who's wrong here?

        The sentence while a tad long makes perfect sense.  

      • I thought it was pretty clear that Eabo meant to write

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        For allowing those of us that are “differently winged” the opportunity to remind the American Public of the only time that the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of Federal Military Forces in a law enforcement function, was done violated, by the Clinton Administration.

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