General Wesley Clark On Countdown With Keith Olbermann

July 6, 2007
Transcript by Reg NYC


Keith Olbermann: Good evening from New York. It has been thus on every sinking ship from Titanic to the SS Minnow of Gilligan's Island, a few far thinking visionaries try to get off first and get others to leave with them. Then, others begin to file off one by one and after them the deluge. And so it is for the Bush administration's policy in Iraq.

Our fifth story on the Countdown, conservative Republican Senator Pete Domenici yesterday, conservative Republican Congressman John Doolittle today. Hope you can swim boys. This while the top national security officer from the Reagan administration insisting that the only way to protect the troops in Iraq is to get the Bush administration to bring them home, and the only way to do that may be to threaten the President directly with impeachment. The Commander-in-Chief having now supported the troops to a death toll of 3,592 with no end in sight.

Conservative Congressman Doolittle of California, one-time Mormon missionary today joining the others in his party in questioning whether the conflict is worth the loss of any more American lives. His remarks though making the Congressman sound less like a great humanitarian or patriot and rather more like a huge xenophobe: 'I am increasingly convinced,' said Mr. Doolittle, 'that we are never going to succeed in actually ending people dying in Iraq. I think it's going to be a constant conflict, and if that is going to happen, it needs to be the Iraqis dying and not the Americans.'