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Wes Clark: McCain As Dangerous As Bush
NewsMax | 2/15/08 | NewsMax Staff
Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 11:51:38 PM by melt
If you dont think John McCain is just as dangerous in the White House as George W. Bush, think again.
Thats how retired four-star General Wesley Clark begins a fundraising e-mail sent on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Clark, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2004 race, writes in his e-mail:
McCain will not reverse the foreign policy mistakes of George Bush. He is content to leave us in Iraq, saying itd be fine by me if we were in Iraq for another 100 years. He is rash on using military force with Iran. He overplays the military card and doesnt seem to appreciate that the real strength of the nation lies in our economy and in our values.
In seeking contributions to the DSCC for this years Senate campaign, Clark says: We have to be sure we have a Congress that will support a Democratic president but also one that, in the event of a John McCain presidency, has enough horsepower to ensure he cant continue the policies of George W. Bush.


McCain has been to Georgia three times since 1997 and "this is an issue that he has been involved with for well over a decade," said McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.

McCain's strong condemnation in recent days of Russia's military action against Georgia as "totally, absolutely unacceptable" reflects long-standing ties between McCain and hardline conservatives such as Scheunemann, an aide in the 1990s to then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.

Scheunemann, who also was a foreign policy adviser in McCain's 2000 presidential campaign, has for years traveled the same road as McCain in pushing for regime change in Iraq and promoting NATO membership for Georgia and other former Soviet republics.

While their politics coincide, Russia's invasion of Georgia casts a spotlight on Scheunemann's business interests and McCain's conduct as a senator.

Scheunemann's firm lobbied McCain's office on four bills and resolutions regarding Georgia, with McCain as a co-sponsor or supporter of all of them.

In addition to the 49 contacts with McCain or his staff regarding Georgia, Scheunemann's firm has lobbied the senator or his aides on at least 47 occasions since 2001 on behalf of the governments of Taiwan and Macedonia, which each paid Scheunemann and his partner Mike Mitchell over half a million dollars; Romania, which paid over $400,000; and Latvia, which paid nearly $250,000. Federal law requires Scheunemann to publicly disclose to the Justice Department all his lobbying contacts as an agent of a foreign government.

After contacts with McCain's staff, the senator introduced a resolution saluting the people of Georgia on the first anniversary of the Rose Revolution that brought Mikhail Saakashvili to power.

Four months ago, on the same day that Scheunemann's partner signed the latest $200,000 agreement with Georgia, McCain spoke with Saakashvili by phone. The senator then issued a strong statement saying that "we must not allow Russia to believe it has a free hand to engage in policies that undermine Georgian sovereignty."

Rogers, the McCain campaign spokesman, said the call took place at the request of the embassy of Georgia. And McCain campaign spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace added that the senator has full confidence in Scheunemann. "We're proud of anyone who has worked on the side of angels in fledgling democracies," she said in an interview.

McCain called Saakashvili again on Tuesday. "I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians," McCain told a cheering crowd in York, Pa. McCain's Democratic rival, Barack Obama, had spoken with Saakashvili the day before.

In 2005 and 2006, McCain signed onto a resolution expressing support for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia; introduced a resolution expressing support for a peace plan for Georgia's breakaway province of Ossetia; and co-sponsored a measure supporting admission of four nations including Georgia into NATO.

On Tuesday, McCain told Fox News that "as you know, through the NATO membership, ... if a member nation is attacked, it is viewed as an attack on all."

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[SaveSouthOssetia]

Use your own profile for your Nazi propaganda

[FriendsofGeorgia]

SaveSouthOssetia,

Why did you delete my comments? Shame on you.

It is pretty clear you do not respect someone's opinion. There is no diffrence between you and Russian media:-)

[SaveSouthOssetia]

On August 9, the Georgian Fuhrer gave a 10-minute interview to CNN, which opened an obviously synchronized anti-Russian campaign in the Western media. Since then, the main theme is that Russia used all of its military might against the tiny Georgia. Having such dedicated followers could make Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels happy. As for Saakashvili, he has learned by heart not only Goebbelss notorious commandment A lie repeated 100 times becomes the truth,

[xander7ful]

Excellent video. I wish they had gone into detail about the fact that there were devices into which MIAs could type their "PIN" numbers and be located by. And the fact that the lists of "PIN" numbers for Vietnam soldiers were destroyed by the Pentagon, with McCain's knowledge. This guy betrayed his fellow soldiers & is responsible for MIAs still not being found.

[ronoman88]

Thank You for this piece. McCain was clearly stopping everything to resolve the POW issue.

Why?

[FriendsofGeorgia]

SaveSouthOssetia,

If my pupils have read your comments, they would laugh to death :-) If you believe in Putins Russia, you should be there. Why are you in the West?

[FriendsofGeorgia]

If you have no idea what author, SaveSouthOssetia is trying to say, click more information under SaveSouthOssetia and you will realized what he is trying to say. The bottom line is that he does not like McCain because he is a pro-Russian:-)

[eriqkk]

The guy at 02:20 is right. Why haven't we been allowed access to McCain's documents? Everyone seems to fall all over themselves to praise him as a war hero, yet what do we really know?

Time to come clean, McCain.

[eriqkk]

That's the rule of youtube. If you post a vid, you get to decide about the commentary. There's nothing Russian about that, friend.

[eriqkk]

No, McCain, YOU get a life. You're a complete and hateful jerk, and the majority of the American is on to you. We'll not allow you and your floozy from Alaska to control our great society.