Clark: "We're confused about who we are...

[calteacherguy]

November 9, 2007
General Wesley Clark with Nicole Sandler on AM 940 WINZ, Miami

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We've just confirmed an Attorney General of the United States who can't say that waterboarding is torture. And yet, it is torture. I spent my life in uniform, fighting against regimes and working to protect the United States of America from countries that tortured by using things like water-boarding. And now I find we're doing it and we've got an Attorney General. So, I think with an Attorney General like that, if we don't know who we are as nation, as a nation, we can't lead. This is a time that the world needs American leadership.

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We're not under an existential threat. We need to be concerned about Iran. It is a problem, but in a larger sense, as I explain in, in my book, we have to find a way to back out of this fixation on the Middle East. Terrorism is not an existential threat to the United States. Iran is not an existential threat to the United States. All we have to do to be a great nation and a leading nation is take care of our infrastructure, our education, our healthcare, our own people and stand up for our own values and know who we are as a people. Our values are the values that many people in the world aspire to have. I'm not talking about waterboarding. I'm talking about who we really are as Americans, and if we'll live up to our values, then we will lead and we will be safe.

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[lvx35]

1. I wish I he were running.

This is so right, and so powerful. Who are we??? Its takes $10 a month to feed a child, and people spend $100 a month on anti-depressants to get rid of that "empty" feeling. That's another example beyond torture. when did we start to exalt the infantile?

[ananda]

2. I'm not confused at all.

I know what's right and what's wrong.

It's clear as a bell.

Torture is wrong.
Free trade is evil.
Unaffordable or inaccessible healthcare
for children is unconscionable.
War is horrible and to be avoided at all costs.
Willingness to put corporate profits over
human needs and the urgency to address
pollution, overpopulation, and global warming
should not be tolerated.

As I said, very clear.

[Schema Thing]

3. n/t