September 23, 2003
Wes Clark's Honeymoon...
The Weekly Standard is also not impressed with Wesley Clark. The above picture shows Clark trading hats with Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, a now indicted war criminal. Back in 1994, Clark ignored the State Department and wend to meet Mladic anyway, knowing full well Mladic was already under investigation for shelling civilians in Sarajevo and emptying Muslim villages. "What State Department officials said they found especially disturbing was a photograph of Clark and Mladic wearing each other's caps. The picture appeared in several European newspapers, U.S. officials said. Clark accepted as gifts Mladic's hat, a bottle of brandy, and a pistol inscribed in Cyrillic, U.S. officials said. 'It's like cavorting with Hermann Goering,' one U.S. official complained."
Clark is right now on his honeymoon, before the blogosphere picks apart his professional career like Texas prarie vultures on a dead armadillo. This lull will last about one month. Then things will get so hot for Clark that even the New York Times will have to run stories like this, just like Dean got gang-fisked on Vermont's health system and his dismal performance on Meet The Press.
Welcome to the campaign trail, General Clark. Incoming fire has the right-of-way.
P.S. Here's the reaction of one of my non-political friends, who had previously had nothing but good things to say about Clark, upon this revelation:
Me: Oh, BTW, there's a photo of Wesley Clark floating around showing him joking with a bosnian war criminal.
Me: The honeymoon...is over.
Friend: well damnit.
Friend: who am I supposed to vote for now?
Me: Bush?
Me: :-)
Friend: ....
Friend: :-(