WES CLARK to Keynote "The Real State of the Union 2006" (Steve Clemons)

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

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http://www.newamerica.net/">TWN: The New America Foundation - American Strategy Program:kick:
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The Real State of the Union 2006:
A No-Nonsense Assessment of U.S. Foreign Policy and Call to Action


Special Keynote Speaker

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK:patriot:
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander

During thirty-four years of service in the United States Army Wesley K. Clark rose to the rank of four-star general as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. In his final military command, General Clark commanded Operation Allied Force, NATO's first major combat action, which saved 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. General Clark was also responsible for directing the peacekeeping operation in Bosnia. General Clark was also a Democratic presidential primary candidate in the 2004 elections.

Where:
Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
Monday, January 30th

When: 8:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.; 12:00 – 1:45 p.m.
Host: www.newamerica.net

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:dem:Please Contact C-SPAN!!

Also snipped from Daily Kos w/Poll

Please contact C-SPAN at [e-mail] and urge them to broadcast this important forum, LIVE! Clark has always said that the real war on terror was in Afghanistan, ...going after OBL and AQ. But Bush distracted our war on terror, by fighting an elective war into Iraq and going after Saddam.

The Bush administration is finally confronting the realities of its incompetencies in foreign policy and national security. Our nations faces serious delemmas in security, policy and diplomacy; as it deals with the prospects of a "real" Islamic fundamentalist government in Iraq and a "real" nuclear proliferation program in Iran. As Clark recently said on FOXNews, " Now, it's time to pay our dues...".

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:dem:Crossposted from text at the following blogs:

• TWN: http://thewashingtonnote.com/">TWN: General Wesley Clark to Keynote "Real State of U.S. Foreign Policy Forum"
  
• Daily Kos w/Poll: "WES CLARK gives Keynote on 'The Real State of the Union 2006'
  
• WesPAC-CCN:http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/3997">"WESLEY CLARK - Keynotes 'The Real State of the Union 2006' in DC"

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[Totally Committed]

1. Thanks, Pirate!

This is the SOTU that all of America should hear. Let's hope C-SPAN will cover it, because the MSM will surely not.

TC

[FrenchieCat]

2. The Real State of the Union is Fucked up!

And I am sure that Wes Clark will be able to express that sentiment in much more detail so that even fools can understand!.......


Of course it won't be covered. If it were, it would be a miracle!
The Corporate Media's motto....."never mind the truth!"

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

5. Certainly is,.. but it's really getting Super F--k'd up!

... so let's write C-SPAN in french, I'm sure they'll listen to them.

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

15. HObbes asks,

: "Calvin?..ehm, is that the latest news from Iraq?

.... "Yeah, ..it's modern dance, "The Shia Dance of Democracy", ..COooL! HobbES! did'ja catch that SpIn!"

[loudsue]

3. Wes Clark can speak to ALL of the people about the SOTU.

He's the perfect person to call it like it is. Smooth as a baby's bottom, he is.

:kick:

[davidwparker]

4. Clark - staying in the * administration's face.

I'll send email to c-span too.

[Totally Committed]

6. Geez...

I just went over to Kos to look at the poll referenced in Pirate's OP, and how would anyone be able to make a choice among all those things that Wes might want to talk about? It's ALL important.

TC

On edit, so far this is how the poll stacks up:

What issues should Clark address for the real SOTU?

The Real War on Terror 45%

The Real Threat of Iran's Nuclear Program 6%

The Insurgency and growth of an Islamic State in Iraq 9%

Proper Body Armor for US Troops 0%

The FEMA/Katrina Relief Debacle 9%

The Bush/NSA Scandal Invasion of Privacy 12%

The Rove/Plame CIA Scandal 3%

The $8,000,000,000,000.00 National Debt 6%

Cronyism and The GOP's K-Street Project 0%

The Outsourcing of American Jobs 6%

America's Broken Borders 0%

Dirty Air, Dirty Land, Dirty Water 3%

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/24/19542/7953

[capi888]

7. Totally Awesome....!!! No one better !!!

I hope we get to see it...letter to C-Span coming up!!!

[trillian]

8. Outstanding!

Steve usually films his conferences puts them on his web site. Fingers crossed M!

[robbedvoter]

9. Done. Wrote C-Span

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

10. Corrected Weblog links

:dem:

• The Washington Note:General Wesley Clark to Keynote "Real State of U.S. Foreign Policy Forum"
  
  
• Daily Kos w/Poll:"WES CLARK gives Keynote on 'The Real State of the Union 2006'
  
  
• WesPAC-CCN:"WESLEY CLARK - Keynotes 'The Real State of the Union 2006' in DC"[/ul

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

37. Schedule of Speakers/Topics - The Real State of US Foreign Policy 2006

The Real State of US Foreign Policy 2006


BENCHMARKING SUCCESSES & FAILURES:
PONDERING THE CONDITION OF AMERICA’S GREAT PURPOSES AND EVOLVING 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES

JOHN O’SULLIVAN
Senior Fellow & Director, Center for European Studies, Hudson Institute
Editor-at-Large and former Editor-in-Chief, National Review
Former Editor-in-Chief, United Press International and former Editor, National Journal
Founder & Co-Chairman, New Atlantic Initiative, American Enterprise Institute

STEVEN CLEMONS
Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member, Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com

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GLOBAL OUTLOOKS:
AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY AND WIDENING ARCS OF INSTABILITY

KEVIN G. NEALER
Principal & Partner, The Scowcroft Group

PETER BERGEN
Fellow, New America Foundation
Terrorism Analyst, CNN
Adjunct Professor, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Author, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda’s Leader as well as Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

ANATOL LIEVEN
Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Former Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Author, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism

MICHAEL LIND
Whitehead Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Former Executive Editor, National Interest and former Senior Editor, The New Republic
Author of the forthcoming, The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life

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TAKING STOCK OF THE US NATIONAL INTEREST:
COMMENTS ON POST COLD WAR STRATEGIES THAT ADDRESS TOMORROW’S GLOBAL STRESS POINTS

DIMITRI K. SIMES
President, The Nixon Center
Publisher, The National Interest

THE HON. WENDY R. SHERMAN
Principal, The Albright Group, LLC
Former Counselor to the Secretary of State (Clinton Administration)
Former Special Advisor to the President & Secretary of State on North Korea
Former President & CEO, Fannie Mae Foundation

CLYDE V. PRESTOWITZ, JR.
President, Economic Strategy Institute
Former Counselor to the Secretary of Commerce (Reagan Administration)
Author, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East

SHERLE SCHWENNINGER
Director, Global Middle Class Program, New America Foundation
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute and Founding Editor (1983-1991), World Policy Journal

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Senior Fellow, NYU Center on Law & Security
Former Assistant and Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton
Former Washington Bureau Chief, Salon.com
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The Real State of the Union 2006:

[democrank]

11. Just contacted C-Span.

I would give anything to hear this speech. Wes Clark is so inspiring.

[Adelante]

12. I'll do that, too

Right away.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

13. Done, and excellent!!

FYI, the links except Daily Kos in the OP have an extra http in them, as:

http://www.

which makes them not work as clickable links, at least for me. I can copy and paste and remove the extra http fine.

[tishaLA]

14. Done

K&R

[ArkySue]

16. Yes!

I'll be watching for this!

Come on CSPAN, show it!

[Auntie Bush]

17. Yeaaaaah!

Hops up and down! :bounce:

[incapsulated]

18. I emailed c-span, but..

Their record on airing these things is not very good. Especially Clark.

[wiley]

19. That I could watch

writing C-Span now. Why the * doesn't ABC run it?

[Sparkly]

20. The WesPac link...

...needs a fix.

http://securingamerica.com/node/544

Thanks for posting this, Pirate!

:kick:

[Jai4WKC08]

21. I wrote C-SPAN too n/t

:kick:

[Neil Lisst]

22. Clark has impressed me his last few TV appearances.

He held up well under the typical barrage of bad bullshit from the Fox News talking heads recently. He's getting much more comfortable on TV being interviewed. I felt 2004 was his rookie season as a pol, and he made rookie mistakes. He's looking a lot better now, making good eye contact, not showing body language that implies uncertainty or discomfort.

He's emerging as a name I could welcome on the ticket in 08.

I'm literally an undecided.

[Totally Committed]

23. I wrote C-SPAN, too...

but, if I remember correctly, doesn't Steve Clemmons tape all his events and put them up at Washington Note?

TC

[Jai4WKC08]

35. Not all, I don't think...

He had all, or pretty much all, of the speeches from that big conference on terrorism NAF sponsored last September. Don't know whether he taped 'em, or worked out a deal with C-SPAN to use their videos. I know C-SPAN taped the thing. They even ran it live... until about 15 minutes before Clark spoke. Well, no surprise there, eh? C-SPAN is owned by the corporate media, afterall.

But I've never seen vids of Clemons' other conferences, fora, working groups etc up at his website. I might have missed 'em.

[Doctor_J]

24. If a patriotic stateman speaks in the forest,

but all of the talking heads are lusting after the King, did the statesman really speak?

[Kahuna]

25. Wes and Al Gore are the only warriors in our party. We need them

both front and center.

[imlost]

26. Done

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

27. Wes Clark's appearance today w/ Cavuto (video

Wes Clark's appeared today on FOXNews w/Cavuto



This was one of Clark's more profound interviews, where he discussed the geopolitical pressures surrounding Syria, Iraq and Iran, and the need for more immediate high level diplomacy with these countrys' governments, which this Administration has intentionally neglected.

Note: Video above was recorded by Ruth at CCN: at www.SecuringAmerica.com/ccn; it's 23Mb!

[Clark2008]

33. Sigh...

I'm a very-in-love-with-my-husband newlywed, but Clark still makes my heart patter.

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

38. Thank you for your emails to C-SPAN!! It Worked!!

From The Washington Note

"...C-Span will be covering the entire conference LIVE. However, we have learned that the progam will most likely appear on C-Span 3, which is usually available with many digital television packages -- and also available for live streaming over any PC.

This will be a significant foreign policy discussion -- that I think will have some impact on the journalistic environment just preceding the President's Tuesday night State of the Union address.

So, please join us -- in person or over C-Span -- for a discussion of the "Real State of U.S. Foreign Policy 2006".

My comments will be one of the first two in the conference -- and I'm paired with former National Review editor-in-chief John O'Sullivan.

More soon.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/

[Totally Committed]

28. Big Kick

on a morning when we need some GOOD news to look forward to.

:kick:

TC

[cyberpj]

29. THIS is THE MAN with all the right credentials to WIN disgruntled Repubs

in 2008.

That will never happen if they push Hillary to the front.

WES CLARK, HIS RESUME AND HIS INTELLIGENCE ARE WHAT CAN WIN FOR DEMOCRATS!

[Totally Committed]

31. Here, here! Great post.

I agree 1000%

TC

[AzDar]

30. kick!

[Clark2008]

32. WOW!!!!

What an HONOR!

I just :loveya: Clark so much!

Thanks for posting about this!

[Clark2008]

34. My letter, which I just got confirmation as received:

Dear C-SPAN:

Please consider covering Wes Clark’s speech at the New America Foundation’s, “The Real State of the Union 2006: A No-Nonsense Assessment of U.S. Foreign Policy and Call to Action” meeting on Monday, Jan. 30.

Since most news outlets are now owned by six or seven mega corporations that tend to lean right because of their parent organizations other contracts, it’s difficult for Americans to find clear information regarding real Democratic positions and the solutions to issues that plague the United States. The Democrats do have solutions, but they’re rarely discussed on network and cable news.

By showing Clark’s speech, live, you would be providing a service to Americans who need to look at other points of view regarding our foreign policies and the direction we need to take to ensure both our safety and our domestic growth in employment and infrastructure. There is another way besides the Bush Administration’s way and Americans deserve to see their choices.

Sincerely,

[Dread Pirate KR Read]

36. Great Letter!!

I don't think I was as diplomatic,.. about the Bush way, ...
although I did mention that C-SPAN had a responsibility to awaken Americans,
... , and allow Americans to articulate the real truth about our SUTO.

But I did try to be fair about about my comments of the extreme the right-wingers. ...
...

So thanks, I think your letter is perfect, ... and more productive.