Gen. Wesley Clark Backs Lamont, Slams Lieberman
2006-10-09
Source: NewsMax.com
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rss feedDemocrat Ned Lamont won retired Gen. Wesley Clark's stamp of approval and hammered home the anti-war message that propelled his primary victory.
"He's got loads of courage, common sense and integrity," Clark, the former NATO commander, said at a rally outside the University of Connecticut student union. "Ned Lamont will go to Washington and he will be the key to changing the course for this country."
Clark sharply criticized the Bush administration's handling of the war. He blamed Lamont's opponent, Sen. Joe Lieberman, for supporting Bush's Iraq policies.
Lamont, a Greenwich businessman who has pumped more than $6 million of his own money into the campaign, won the August primary by attacking Lieberman's support of the war. Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, then launched an independent campaign. A Sept. 28 Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters showed Lieberman with a 10-point lead.
Clark and Lieberman were rivals during the 2004 Democratic presidential primary.
"George Bush says stay the course," Clark said. "How can you stay the course when you're in a ditch? Joe Lieberman has been part of that ditch."
He added, "The truth is, (Lieberman) didn't control the steering wheel, but he was sort of supporting the elbow of the guy who drove us into the ditch."
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