How do we know that the Democrats will politicize the Iraq War during the general election? Because to them, everything, including war, is political:

Some top Clinton administration officials wanted to end the Kosovo war abruptly in the summer of 1999, at almost any cost, because the presidential campaign of then-Vice President Al Gore was about to begin, former NATO commander Gen. Wesley K. Clark says in his official papers.

"There were those in the White House who said, 'Hey, look, you gotta finish the bombing before the Fourth of July weekend. That's the start of the next presidential campaign season, so stop it. It doesn't matter what you do, just turn it off. You don't have to win this thing, let it lie,' " Clark said in a January 2000 interview with NATO's official historian, four months before leaving the post of supreme allied commander Europe.

...A former senior administration official, however, said Clark might have been referring to a Washington meeting of top policymakers in late spring at which Gore allegedly expressed concern that the war might interfere with his campaign. Gore formally announced his candidacy one week after the war ended, on June 16, 1999.

Gore, through a spokesman, declined to comment directly. Leon Feurth, his national security adviser at the time, said that politics were not discussed at White House national security meetings, and that while Gore opposed preparing for a ground war, he supported continuing the bombing as long as necessary to win. Gore "was prepared to take a political hit" on such issues, Feurth said.

Are these the people we want to lead us in the War on Terror? Who cut and run for political purposes? God, I hope not. Furthermore, what is up with Clark constantly not remembering or knowing things he was directly invloved in?

Update: Clark, Clintonian fashion, denies it:

Clark did not say he was misquoted. Rather, he called the report ``a stream-of-conscious dictation'' with a historian. ``I had to assemble all of my memory and think about what had actually happened. It was such a complex period of time,'' Clark said.

He said he was never given any deadline to end the war and there was no desire by the White House to end bombing in Kosovo.

In a January 2000 interview, Clark told NATO's official historian, ``There were those in the White House who said, 'Hey, look, you gotta finish the bombing before the Fourth of July weekend. That's the start of the next presidential campaign season, so stop it. It doesn't matter what you do, just turn it off. You don't have to win this thing, let it lie.'''

We don't want to upset Bubba now, do we Wes? Bubba upset Hillary though.