Clark is a pathetic left-wing shill with absolutely no credibility.

As the former commander of NATO during the Bosnian conflict, retired Gen. Wesley Clark has taken to calling out John McCain for a variety of alleged shortcomings.

As has been well documented on this site, Clark made quite a few absurd statements during his Sunday appearance on “Face The Nation.”

“In the matters of national security policy making, it’s a matter of understanding risk,” Clark said “It’s a matter of gauging your opponents, and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in his official positions.

If by “gauging your opponent” he means hanging with war criminals like Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, then I guess he’s right, John McCain hasn’t done that.

On Monday, Clark stuck to his guns and refused to apologize for his comments about McCain. He even made a few new points.

“John McCain is running his campaign on his experience and how his experience would benefit him and our nation as president. That experience shows courage and commitment to our country – but it doesn’t include executive experience wrestling with national policy or go-to-war decisions,” Clark said. “And in this area his judgment has been flawed…”

“flawed judgment” are exactly the words that come to mind when I think about Wes Clark enjoying photo ops with war criminals like Ratko Mladic and accepting gifts from him that included a bottle of brandy, his hat, and a pistol.

For those who don’t know about Ratko Mladic, let’s just say he’s the last guy on earth a respectable officer in the United States military would ever accept a gift from.

At least every respectable officer except NATO commander, Gen. Wesley Clark who’s pictured above wearing Mladic’s hat. Yes, that is Clark’s hat with his 4 stars on it sitting atop the war criminals head. Notice the rather unenthusiastic look on the British commanders face as he stands there for that unfortunate picture.

Mladić was indicted on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of around 8,300 Bosnian Muslim men and boys on July 11, 1995 at Srebrenica.

He took a page right out of Hitler’s playbook with that one. The movie “Behind Enemy Lines” with Owen Wilson is partially based on the horrific war crimes perpetrated by Ratko Mladic.

So excuse me while I attempt to control my laughter when Clark lectures John McCain about “flawed judgment.” He’s lecturing a man who had the chance to leave that Hanoi pit of hell he was in after just two years of captivity.

McCain refused and said he wasn’t leaving without the other men, which resulted in his continued imprisonment for another 3 1/2 years much of which was spent in solitary confinement. He was brutally tortured every day and cannot raise his arms above his mid-chest even today as a result of it.

He was hung in the air with his arms behind him for sometimes as long as two days which permanently destroyed his shoulders.

If “judgment” is really what the Obama campaign wants to talk about, Clark is a piss poor surrogate to have that conversation.

(hat tip to Michelle for bringing this to my attention)

Ben Smith over at Politico is reporting that Gen. Wes Clark is now hitting back at John McCain via his Facebook page. After his ridiculous and laughable perfomance on “Face The Nation” yesterday, Clark’s “status” on Facebook says this:

“Wes Clark knows that John McCain is largely untested and untried when it comes to national security matters”

It’s almost as funny now to hear that as it was yesterday on “Face The Nation.” It’s the kind of statement that just begs for a “and Barack Obama is?”

-Chris Jones

Anyone who didn’t see “Face The Nation” this morning really missed out. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark made a total fool out of himself attacking John McCain. He said John McCain doesn’t have the credentials to be President, but Barack Obama does. Not only did he say that, but he said it with a straight face.

Clark dug deeper by saying of McCain, “He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall” as a wartime commander.” Clark is right on that one. McCain never “ordered” bombs to fall, he dropped them himself.

In less there’s a secret double life that Barack Obama has been leading as a grizzled wartime commander, Clark is hallucinating.

When Bob Schieffer interrupted Clark’s incoherent statements by mentioning that McCain was shot down in a fighter jet over Vietnam, Clark said he didn’t think that qualified him to be President.

Right before I kicked my TV over, Schieffer asked what had to be on the minds of millions of Americans at that moment. “What experience does Barack Obama have in that area?”

Still keeping his straight face, Clark explained to an incredulous Bob Schieffer that Obama wasn’t running on that. Obama is running on the “strength of his character” and “good judgement” the misguided General said.

So what Clark is saying is that John McCain’s nearly 30 years of foreign policy experience is meaningless, and while Barack Obama has zero years of foreign policy experience that’s okay since he has “strength of character” and “good judgment.”

I’m assuming the “good judgement” Clark is referring to is the same judgment that kept Barack Obama sitting in front of Rev. Wright’s hate filled diatribes for 20 years.

The same judgement that has allowed him to befriend every radical left-wing thug the South side of Chicago has producted over the last three decades.

There are plenty of legitimate issues that Obama’s surrogates can choose to attack John McCain on, but foreign policy experience is hardly on of them.