September 15, 2003

Run General, Run!

Normally I'd be too much of a pacifist to praise a man trained to destroy and kill for a living. However, after reading Michael Moore's letter to Wesley Clark, I can't help but to agree with him.

The US presidential elections are just over a year away. The guy who stole the presidency in 2000 needs a long vacation back at his ranch. There are no bona fide and realistic third party candidates available, leaving the field open once again only to the Pepsi & Coke crowd. Between the Democrat hopefuls, I'd probably find Dennis Kucinich closest to my own line of thinking, except that realistically he'd never be allowed anywhere near the oval office. The next possibility is Howard Dean, but I just don't think he is capable of beating W (well, maybe if he had Clark as VP, maybe).

Accordingly, like Moore, I am hoping General Wesley Clark would decide to run. I got over my fantasies of working outside the system to try to change it long ago and as a Socialist running in Canada. In my older and wiser days now, I'll take any flight that could get me to Europe, if my ultimate goal is to reach the Far East. So, Run General, Run!

Posted by Pedram at September 15, 2003 09:25 PM
Comments

Interesting post Pedram.

Posted by: Faramin at September 16, 2003 04:53 AM

it's going on!

Posted by: غبارافکار at September 17, 2003 01:31 AM

Your prayers are answered.

Posted by: Kaveh at September 17, 2003 06:59 AM

Did he respond to Moor's call or was there previous aspirations in place that Moorek new about?

Posted by: Jafar at September 17, 2003 01:59 PM

I think many people knew about this, at leat that was the impression I got reading some weblogs.

Posted by: Kaveh Kh. at September 17, 2003 03:29 PM

I liked Clark until Moore endorsed him.

Posted by: stephen at September 18, 2003 06:19 AM

i hope your dreams don't come true!
forgot waco? not informed about yugoslavia? remember haiti and so on ....
http://counterspin.blogspot.com/2003_09_14_counterspin_archive.html#106379711994726685
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen09172003.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/lodge09172003.html

do you think generals don't make wars????? choose another, for gods sake!

Posted by: joe at September 18, 2003 01:47 PM

with clark shamerica is doomed!

Posted by: cyphee at September 18, 2003 02:42 PM

with clark shamerica is doomed!

Posted by: cyphee at September 18, 2003 02:42 PM

I think I might agree with Joe.

After leaving my initial comment here, I received an email from "Fair". basically what the eamil says is that Clark was not anti-war at all. and gives exact refferences of his supporting the war.
the article is called:
"Wesley Clark: The New Anti-War Candidate?
Record Shows Clark Cheered Iraq War as "Right Call"
and it can be viewed at
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-antiwar.html

Posted by: Faramin at September 18, 2003 03:15 PM