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dinsdag, augustus 26, 2003
Crossfire ontvangt generaal
Generaal Wesley Clark, afgestudeerd politicoloog en econoom, wilde in het CNN-programma Crossfire nog steeds niet zeggen of hij zich kandidaat stelt als Democratisch presidentskandidaat. Sterker nog, hij wilde zich nog niet eens binden aan een van de twee partijen. De Republikeinen zijn goed omdat ze een eenheid vormen en veel geld kunnen binnen halen. De Democraten zijn goed omdat ze overstromen van goede ideeën. Maar in de tussentijd haalde de generaal flink uit naar het beleid van Bush:

"Look, we went into Iraq under false pretenses. We've got the Army tied up there. We can't reinforce those forces very well because we don't have enough forces to really roll it over. We've got an emerging nuclear problem in North Korea that hasn't been dealt with. Al Qaeda is apparently seeping in and building its structures inside Iraq, the very thing we supposedly went to war to prevent. And we've never found the weapons of mass destruction."

"There apparently was no imminent nuclear threat. And yet we're now going to have to use our credibility to muster support to go after Iran and prevent them Iran from developing nuclear weapons. So I think there's some enormous challenges in foreign affairs. And, of course, there's the job side. I've got two brothers-in-law and a nephew currently unemployed. That's never happened to our family before."

"And I know millions of other Americans have the same feelings, because we're at 6.2 percent joblessness. We've lost 2.6 million jobs over the last 2 1/2 years."




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