DUELING WESLEY CLARKS: Stephen Sachs does a side by side comparison of passages from two Clark statements on the war, and concludes: “Now, it’s possible that Clark’s position in these two pieces is consistent, just highly complex. . . . But I simply don’t see how these two pieces, from April and November, can be read as expressing the same opinion of the war.”

As I said before, Clark seems like a hard guy to pin down.

UPDATE: The lefties at CommonDreams seem to think Clark supported the war.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Mickey Kaus writes: “It’s possible to square Clark’s Congressional testimony with opposition to the war as waged. But it’s impossible to square this London Times article with Clark’s current antiwar criticism.” But Mark Kleiman is trying hard to do just that.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Roger Simon writes: “I am all-too-familiar with Clark, having watched him ad tedium and ad nauseam on CNN both during and after the war, when extracting a definitive opinion from the coy former General about anything, even whether he was a Republican or a Democrat, was like pulling teeth from a rhinoceros.”

MORE: Andrew Sullivan: “He was pro-war until it was politically convenient for him not to be. He was pro-war, depending on what the meaning of ‘pro’ is.”