Clark Supporter Feels Called to Duty

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On Nov. 9, 1999, Massa looked up from his desk to find Clark standing there. Clark told Massa that his wife had called worried about his health.

Clark had arranged another doctor's appointment for Massa, and when Massa protested, Clark gave him the only direct order Massa recalls receiving in four years. "I think we have lost the fundamental relationship between a four-star general and a Navy commander," Clark told him. "You will go to the doctor."

The doctor diagnosed Massa, who had never smoked, with advanced lung cancer and gave him four months to live. Clark cut through red tape to get Massa and his family back to the United States for treatment.

Just before Massa left, Clark convened the staff and tearfully awarded Massa the Legion of Merit medal for his work. Clark had received the same medal in the 1970s when he was a speech writer for the then-supreme allied commander.

It's one of the few times Massa saw Clark cry.

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http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/politics2003/112703clark_guy_2003.shtml

DTH

They've committed more slander against Clark than the Whore Press has!

elitist will never see a dime from me. They just want sit there and put out that crummy bitchy little paper. They lost it long ago. I consider them partly responsible for Bush's selection along with the Greens and Nader.

The Nation is one of the finest political magazines in the country, if not the world.

You wanna see some real trash, check out the New Republic.

George, this is what a real leader looks like.

I don't know if it was the bitterness I feel after running across all the Nation bs today, or whether is a more generalized anger I am feeling because of the spew that knows no end and contains no truth, but this article made me weep.

The Democratic party has been given a gift, a rare candidate at just the right moment, and yet it remains to be seen if they will exchange it for something of much lesser value.

Thanks for posting ATN.

It appears that General Clark has done many things throughout his life to help others. He is a true American! Not a fake made up one!

Also note that the article is the "most popular". Makes sure to go and read it. It's long and well worth the read.

It goes to the essence of the difference between our guys and those of the freeper persuasion.

Should be in GD though.

Background (Washington Monthly, November 2003):
"The outing by senior administration officials of Valerie Plame, an undercover C.I.A. counter-terrorism expert and wife of Bush critic and former ambassador Joseph Wilson, is undoubtedly the signature example of contemporary GOP vindictiveness. But there are others. For instance, there is Eric Massa, until recently on the majority staff of the House Armed Services Committee, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.). Massa was a lifelong Republican whose first taste of politics was serving as a page to candidate Ronald Reagan during the 1976 presidential race. But before joining the committee staff, Massa had served in the armed forces, where, among other things, he was a top aide to Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) during Clark's tenure as NATO supreme commander. The two were close, so when Clark came to Washington in early October to meet with Democratic congressional leaders at a private residence a few blocks from the Capitol, Massa walked over to say hello. But as the former comrades-in-arms greeted each other warmly on the street just outside the event--Massa never went inside, say other attendees--Republican operatives stationed nearby noticed his presence, and reported back to his staff director, Robert Rangel. Soon after, sources tell "Who's Who," Hunter and Rangel repeatedly told Massa that, given his friendship with Clark, he could no longer work at the committee, but when reporters from a few big-name newspapers heard the story and began calling around, Hunter claimed that Massa had never actually been fired. Fed-up, Massa resigned. No one from Hunter's office was available for comment. Contacted by WW, Massa commented, "I don't hold ill will for anybody. This is about issues, and Clark the man, and I'm going to do everything I can to get him elected."
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/