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Saturday, January 24, 2004
A useful site to know about: the Annenberg Political Fact Check (factcheck.org) dedicated to (what an idea!) checking facts. As more and more FUD gets strewn about, it's nice to know someone is interested in the there that's actually there. A recent sample:Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie has been saying retired Gen. Wesley Clark was really for war in Iraq -- but the record doesn't bear that out.
"Wesley Clark claims to have always been against the war in Iraq. Yet, testimony he gave to the House Armed Services Committee two weeks before Congress passed the Iraq Congressional Resolution says otherwise," Gillespie writes on the RNC website. Gillespie made similar remarks in a speech given Jan. 15, saying of Clark's testimony "There was no stronger case made" for going to war.
But Gillespie gives only selective excerpts of Clark's testimony to the House Armed Services Committee Sept. 26, 2002 . Actually, Clark repeatedly urged patience and diplomacy, criticized the Bush administration for undercutting "friends and allies" and said "I think it's not time yet to use force against Iraq ."
Don't take our word for it: Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a strong supporter of going to war, testified with Clark at the same hearing and said, "I think Gen. Clark doesn't want to see us use military force . . . . The bottom line is he just doesn't want to take action. He wants to wait."
posted by jeev |
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