Wesley Clark knows how to wage a successful camapign: He's a former top Pentagon war planner and commander of NATO forces in Kosovo. But if teh retired Army four-star general announces next week, as expected, that he will join the field of nine Democrats running for president, he will have to maneuver quickly to survive on the political battlefield. And yet, analysts say, Clark brings a resume that could rattle John Kerry, who has struggled as former Vermont governor Howard Dean has pulled ahead in polls in Iowa and New Hampshire...
Analysts say Clark, a native of Arkansas, could hurt fellow southerners Graham and Edwards. And with a 34-year Army career that includes being wounded in Vietnam, Clark's resume eliminates Kerry's distinction as the only candidate with military experience and the national security credentials to take on Bush.
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