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If you want to be president, it might be helpful to be a general first.
Generals have become president eight times in our history.
And now, while the country is at war, another military man wants to move into the White House.
Wesley Clark is a retired Army four-star general who jumped into the race only two months ago and moved right up to the top of the pack.
We caught up with General Clark this past weekend in Washington in between campaign appearances.
We got a revealing look at the Wesley Clark behind the impressive resume
and learned why he thinks he should be the first General Sins Eisenhower to be president.
If I ask you to say the one thing above all others, this I believe, what would it be?
Oh, this I believe in accountability, responsibility, performance of duty, dedication.
My profession has been a profession of arms and it's been a profession of duty.
Respected for his military expertise, keen intellect, and diplomatic skill.
Wesley Clark was not your average general.
He is an unusual mix of warrior and intellectual, first in his class at West Point and a road scholar.
Clark rose quickly through the ranks to near the top.
He was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a four-star general who dealt with officers and diplomats and led NATO forces to victory in Kosovo.
But even at those heights, he found inspiration from very un-military sources.
And maybe it was Bob Dylan who said it best in his song, Blowing in the Wind.
When he asked how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
Clark quoted that anti-war anthem as he retired in 2000 after a brilliant 34-year military career.
He was a company commander in Vietnam, shot four times in a firefight in 1970.
He was awarded a Silver Star for leading his troops despite his wounds.
After Vietnam, Clark steadily climbed the Pentagon ladder, promotion after promotion to ever more important posts.
But even as a top brass, he was a hands-on commander who seemed to know everything about what his troops were doing and how they did it.
OK, that's that new sniper rifle that you were telling me about, huh? 50 caliber.
Thank you.
Candidate Clark favors gun control, abortion rights, and a constitutional amendment banning flag burning.
He wants to roll back some of President Bush's tax cuts and would use that money to expand health coverage for children.
But Clark's strongest messages are about how President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have handled the war in Iraq.
We went to war on the basis of misleading information. We hadn't exhausted all the diplomatic options.
We didn't have an imminent threat. We didn't even have adequate forces to handle the operation.
The armed forces are way overstretched for what they can reasonably be expected to do, assuming that we continue to maintain a presence in Iraq.
In the history of warfare, it's hard to find anything that was more successful. So what are the chances that Donald Rumsfeld was right?
You have to plan for the aftermath. This plan didn't consider the aftermath.
It didn't work through to the political conditions that were what the war was all about.
If elected president, Clark says he would try to make U.S. troops in Iraq part of a NATO force under American command
and that he would put a non-American in charge of the Iraq reconstruction.
And he argues the war in Iraq has diverted resources from the overall war against terror in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
We have to take the lead in using our scarce resources to focus on what the real problem is with terrorists.
And that real problem is not in Iraq. That problem is still where it was originally, and we didn't finish it.
That's not the first time Clark has differed with the Pentagon.
During the 1999 possible war, he clashed with then Defense Secretary William Cohen and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton.
Even though he led the successful campaign with no American casualties, Clark was relieved of his command and forced into retirement a few months later.
At the time, no one said publicly why he was forced out, but two months ago, Shelton charged Clark was fired over,
character and integrity issues. Shelton has refused to explain his remarks.
Clark says he was fired because he argued that the U.S. should have been more aggressive against ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
Just it turned out that we had differing views about the importance of preventing another round of genocide and how to do it.
And I thought, you know, when you're a senior officer, you have an obligation not just to answer the mail, but to speak up and to speak out until you're told not to any longer, until you're told we're just not going to do it.
So you think this with General Shelton has to do with policy?
Oh, absolutely. We never had anything to do with character and integrity.
And military and foreign policy are what brought Clark into the presidential race, but only after he overcame some opposition on the home front.
Tell me about your wife, Kurt. Did she want you to run?
We've been married for 36 and a half years and we've gone through our full Army career together.
She was my partner, my friend, my advisor, my coach, my love, but she didn't want me to run.
What did she say to you?
Well, she laughed when people called the House in February of 2003 and said, we want to talk to General Clark and ask him to run.
She would snicker. And finally it came down to the anger inside at the way the men and women in the armed forces were being used and abused by the administration.
And I'm here to announce that I intend to seek the presidency of the United States of America.
But Clark discovered he wasn't ready for the political combat of a campaign. He stumbled right out of the gate.
First, he told reporters he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to go to war against Saddam.
Then he said he wasn't sure and then said he would have voted against it.
At the time I made this statement, I was having what I thought was an informal, I wasn't clear whether it was on the record or off the record discussion about the philosophy of sort of entering the presidency and somehow the Iraq question got thrown in.
Well not somehow, you knew that was coming.
No, I actually I didn't. But when it came, it's the kind of, there's no question that it wasn't what I wanted to say.
Now, Clark says, he wouldn't have voted for the resolution that passed, but a different one that Congress never voted on.
Whether it was intended to be on the record, off the record or in background, I think you'd agree if not tell me that on something that is important is whether you would have voted to give the president the authorization to support to go to war or not is a situation where your yay should be yay and your nay should be nay.
I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.
Clark finally got some semblance of a campaign rolling with reinforcements from veterans of Clinton and Gore campaigns.
There's the private jet, the motorcade, the nervous advancement waiting to brief the candidate.
Mr. Wallace Brown is going to be giving your introduction.
The speeches and photo ops and oh yes, the voters.
Still, Clark's campaign schedule always leaves time for a daily swim, something he's been doing for years.
One day last week, there was even time for an impromptu calisthenics lesson for CBS News producer Bonnie Cap.
How many can you do in a row?
Oh, I don't know. I used to do a hundred.
Look like tough pushups to me between chairs.
Well, it's the best way to do them because that way you don't have to get down on the ground and mess up your shoes or get your hands dirty and so forth.
So if you just got a couple of minutes and you can find three chairs that you trust, you put that together and you get a great workout.
Lately, though, there are some signs his campaign is wobbling.
Clark is raising money, but he dropped out of the mid-January Iowa caucuses and is well back in the pack in New Hampshire.
He's strongest in South Carolina, where he has to win, and in other states with primaries on February 3rd.
But as the campaign has heated up, so have the negative comments from former peers in the Army.
Somewhere along the line, Wesley Clark developed a reputation among some others.
Swartzkoff, Shelton, Tommy Franks. Just something about Wesley Clark that tees me off.
Has that been your experience?
Listen, Dan, I don't know if we can ever set aside gossip.
What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.
And all you can do is do your best to be who you are and work through it.
For Clark, the negative talk just broke. Clark plans to testify next month at the war crimes trial of Serb President Slobodan Milosevic.
And he believes strongly, as you'll see in here, that the U.S. should intervene with troops in genocidal civil conflicts.
I want to show you what a policy disputes all about.
This is Bihelina in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
This is what ethnic cleansing is or was in the Balkans.
These are Serbs. These are dead Muslims.
This is the casualness, the pornography of violence against civilians.
And this is not real war. This is war against unarmed people.
I just couldn't bear the thought that the United States would stand by and allow this to happen.
What is the other picture you have marked?
In the summer of 1998, while I was in command, another round of ethnic cleansing started.
Some 300,000 to 400,000 Kosovar Albanians were driven from their homes.
And in the mountains, this is what you saw. This is a five-week-old baby who's died of exposure.
And the family's preparing him for burial.
When you can stop something like this, you should.
When you speak of this, it's the first time I've seen you speak with real emotion.
Deep, seeded emotion. Tell me why that is.
Why? Because you're dealing with people's lives when you're dealing with things like this, Dan.
You know, there were people in this case who said,
We don't have any interest here. I mean, there's no oil.
If there were oil here, we'd stop this.
So we'd rather fight for oil than to save lives.
I don't think so. I don't think that's what this country really believes or what we stand for.
So I do get emotional about this, because when you can do good, you should.
But General Clark does not think the U.S. should have gone to war with Iraq for humanitarian reasons,
as some in the Bush administration argue.
While he acknowledges the brutality of Saddam's regime,
Clark says he doesn't feel the situation justified the American invasion.
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