Yet another Clark lie
Lie about Clark, not from Clark. Geez. You think these people are scared of him or something.
Again, “JM quotes Bob Novak”:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0304.html#092203707pm being critical of Clark for meeting with Serbian General Ratko Mladic in August of 1994.
bq. *Novak:* U.S. diplomats warned Clark not to go to Bosnian Serb military headquarters to meet Mladic, considered by U.S. intelligence as the mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre of Muslim civilians (and still at large, sought by NATO peacekeeping forces).
That’s crafty bit of work, that — it kinda makes you think Clark met and made jokes with the mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre. But the comma represents a time-shift: the Srebrenica massacre happened a year after the meeting with Clark. See, the lack of temporal indicators in the sentence makes you *think* the massacre had happened before the meeting, not after.
Sneaky sneaky.
There may be a mark against Clark for meeting with Mladic anyway; but perhaps not. After all, Novak is doing his best to make this event sound worse than it was. Do they have so little faith in their own arguments that they think they have to lie to make them effective?
