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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU SEPT 25, 2003
16:05:37 ET XXXXX
GENERAL CLARK PRAISED CONDI, POWELL, RUMSFELD AND
BUSH: 'WE NEED THEM THERE'
**World Exclusive**
Democratic presidential hopeful General Wesley
Clark offered lavish praise for the Bush Administration and its key players in
a speech to Republicans, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
During extended remarks delivered at the Pulaski
County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 11, 2001, General
Clark declared: "And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men
like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O'Neill -
people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them
there."
Clark praised Reagan for improving the military:
"We were really helped when President Ronald
Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire
and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan."
Clark continued: "That's the kind of
President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it
behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great
American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him,
and tremendously admired him for his great leadership."
Clark on President George Bush: "President
George Bush had the courage and the vision... and we will always be grateful to
President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship."
Clark on American military involvement overseas:
"Do you ever ask why it is that these people
in these other countries can't solve their own problems without the United
States sending its troops over there? And do you ever ask why it is the
Europeans, the people that make the Mercedes and the BMW's that got so much
money can't put some of that money in their own defense programs and they need
us to do their defense for them?"
"And I'll tell you what I've learned from
Europe is that are a lot of people out in the world who really, really love and
admire the United States. Don't you ever believe it when you hear foreign
leaders making nasty comments about us. That's them playing to their domestic
politics as they misread it. Because when you talk to the people out there,
they love us. They love our values. They love what we stand for in the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."
Charles Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
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