... but were afraid to ask!
Who tried to negotiate a pipeline deal with the Taliban AFTER they blew up the buddhas and forced jews to wear stars of David? Who goes and works for Halliburton and the Carlyle Group when they leave office (or continue working for them while in office)? …Who has blocked and prevented any After Action Review as to what happened on 9/11? Who tried to block the creation of a Department of Homeland Security? Who has not fired or brought to accountability a SINGLE PERSON for the intelligence failure that led to 9/11? But the most important question of all - WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT FOR NINE MONTHS PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11TH? … George W. Bush.
[Posted on Dailykos.com, June 21, 2003, 10:29 a.m.]
Who posted the above accusations? None other than Wesley Clark Jr., the general’s kid. The candidate-of-the-moment’s son is a 33-year-old screenwriter, lives in L.A., handsome guy like his dad, shuns the media.
Wow. I knew that he posted at Kos, but I guess I missed the "BUSH KNEW/LIED/ETC." spin he put on it.
"I just don’t want to be that guy in the press," Mr. Clark said, his voice a mix of Arkansas and gravel. "I’m married, I’m having a baby in January, and we just want a quiet, simple life. I’m a writer because I don’t like being all that public."
This was Wes Jr. being public yesterday: "What did we get on the news for this weekend? A speeding ticket in Oklahoma. You gotta be fucking kidding me."
But if you search the bloggy ether, you’ll find some of his musings on Dailykos.com, a salon for liberal wonks. Like many news junkies, he’s got some strong opinions. "I don’t even know where to go on that," Mr. Clark said when asked about Iraq. "I don’t think the country should have gone in there. They weren’t a threat to us!"
Mr. Clark was himself a soldier once and doesn’t consider himself a radical. He said he’s worried that "Bushco"—his shorthand for the Bush administration and its allies at Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc.—has led the U.S. astray. "This country is heading off a cliff. And there’s lot of people who can see we’re heading off a cliff, and there’s everybody else who’s just in complete denial," he said.
Junior's a chip off the old block.
"I honestly think, if anyone’s going to solve the country’s problems, he’s going to do it," Wes Jr. said. "I was pushing him to run stronger than anyone. I said, ‘Look, I served in the Army for four years, you served in the Army for 32 years, how can you not step forward and do this?’ And, you know, maybe I guilt-tripped him into it."
Which is not to say that Wes Jr.’s views have always fallen into neat formation behind his father’s. "I lean farther left than my dad," he said, adding that he voted for Ralph Nader in the 2000 election.
And he's a Nader voter? Stop already!
More:
Until now, Wes Jr.’s name has raised few eyebrows in L.A.. "People out here, they really don’t know anything about the military unless they were in it," he said. "Before, if someone thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that guy’s dad the head of NATO?’, they’d think it was the North American Theaters Association."
But with Dad emerging as the Democratic front-runner, pushed into the limelight by ClintonCo, Wes Jr. may be in for some trying times. For most of his life, he was fairly insulated from his father’s public persona, though he did date a Serbian woman while General Clark was dropping bombs on Belgrade, and that was complicated. "I still can’t quite get a handle on it," he said.
Wow. Now that's stimulating.
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