Clark rips Bush.

Clark: Bush more concerned with 'political security' than national security

Now that's a headline!

I would have used: "Clark Peels Teflon from Bush -- naked Texan exposed by ALUMINUM MAN!" :)

TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, January 13, 2004
(01-13) 12:05 PST MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Tuesday criticized the timing of an investigation of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and suggested President Bush was more concerned with "political security" than national security.

Campaigning in New Hampshire two weeks before its primary election, Clark called for a full congressional investigation into why the United States went to war in Iraq.

"We don't know what the motivation was. We just don't know. We've spent $180 billion on it, we've lost 480 Americans, we've got 2,500 with life-changing injuries," the retired general told reporters.

Clark contended that Bush was obsessed with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and with establishing a national missile defense, in the months leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- and did not do enough to protect the nation against such an attack.

In a book released Tuesday, O'Neill criticized Bush's leadership style and suggested he planned to go after Saddam even before the attacks... *snip*

...Clark contrasted the speed of the O'Neill investigation with the slow pace of an inquiry into who last summer divulged the name of a CIA official whose husband had criticized the president's Iraq policy.

"They didn't wait 24 hours in initiating an investigation on Paul O'Neill," Clark said. "They're not concerned about national security. But they're really concerned about political security. I think they've got their priorities upside down." more good stuff

Clark really hits a grand slam with this stump speech. He nails the Bush Administration more effectively that I have yet heard or read about. Of course given the CEIP report and O'Neill's bombshells, I expect to see this sort of hard line questioning right up to November.

Clark raises some obvious things that those voted alongside the GOP simply cannot ask.

Clark is asking questions that every American should want to know the answers to. Damn fine set of comparisons as well. NH voters like this sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see how Bush, who can't effectively use the, "I'm the national security guy" bs anymore will spin all of this.

When I used "effectively" in the above sentence, I meant that Bush couldn't use the argument against informed voters. Let's hope the sheep awaken.