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Old 09-24-2003, 06:17 AM
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Default Newsweek story about General Clark...

I got the magazine in the mail and thought this quote from page 26 was interesting...

( some of the article is at http://www.msnbc.com/news/969659.asp?cp1=1 )


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"To say Clark was unpopular among his fellow officers in the military is an understatement. As he rapidly rose through the ranks, he was widely regarded as a champion brown-noser and know-it-all, a sort of Eddie Haskell in Army green. In conversation with friends, Colin Powell would privately put down General Clark
as "Lt. Col. Clark", i.e. a perpetual eager-beaver wanna-be. Some officers questioned his judgment. Talking to a high-ranking Clinton administration official, Gen. Hugh Shelton, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who engineered Clark's firing, bluntly referred to Clark as a "nut"."

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Very good article with lots of info.

Larry
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