Soldiering on for Wesley Clark

There's an extremely well documented diary by "mariawells" which details General Clark's views on the war in Iraq from the fall of 2002 forward.

It never fails to baffle me how many people in the left-leaning blogoshpere have bought into the right-wing attack on Clark that he somehow waffled or flip-flopped on the war. The argument makes some modicum of sense from a GOP point of view.. If you're Karl Rove and pushing to re-elect a president on the single strength that he's resolute (Republicans like resolute a lot better than smart), it stands to reason your best attack against your opponents (like Clark, Kerry, and indeed all Democrats) is to portray them/us as weak, waffling, unwilling and unable to protect the nation.

And it looks like we got us horse race.

Two polls taken by Research 2000, one for Iowa, the next for NH, both conducted in mid December (before Bayh dropped out, but no factor), both with about a 4% margin of error, and here's what we get:

What's the big hurry?

Why was Saddam Hussein executed so quickly?

Let's see... here was a guy who murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people, who started two wars, one with Iran and one with Kuwait, resulting in the deaths of many hundreds of thousands more (to include at least 148 Americans and maybe more thanks to Gulf War Syndrome), and who provided support and encouragement to Palestinian terrorists responsible for the deaths of.hundreds of Israelis, most frequently targeting children, the elderly, the working poor.

Wouldn't you think it might be worth making him testify publicly about ALL of those crimes? Wouldn't you think ALL of the victims might deserve a day in court? Don't you suppose that those still loyal to Saddam could stand to hear a little more about why so many Iraqis, other Arabs, and people around the world are glad to see him dead?

source: http://www.icasualties.org