Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark insisted Wednesday morning that he's been against the Iraq war going all the way back to the 9/11 attacks - even though he told reporters just four months ago that he "probably" would have voted for the October 2002 Iraq War resolution.
"I was consistently against this since from the time the guys from the Pentagon told me two weeks after 9/11 that we were attacking Iraq," Clark told ABC's "Good Morning America." "It didn't make any sense to me. I've been very, very consistent on this."
Not exactly.
It turns out that as recently as September, the vacillating general was all over the map when it came to questions about attacking Baghdad.
"At the time, I probably would have voted for it, but I
think that's too simple a question," Clark told reporters on Sept. 18.
Later on in the same interview, the former NATO commander shifted gears on the war vote.
"I don't know if I would have [backed the war] or not," he explained, before admitting, "I've said it both ways."
In the next breath Clark turned pro-war once again, telling the same reporters, "What happens is you have
to put yourself in a position. On balance, I probably would have
voted for it."
When pressed during the same session to make up his mind, Clark shouted out to his press secretary, Mary Jacoby: "Mary! Help!"
Private polling by the Clark and Dean campaigns showed Clark rapidly closing a 25-point gap in New Hampshire with the Democratic front-runner in just the last two weeks, the Associated Press said Wednesday.
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