Wesley Clark in The New York Post

On Homeland Security: Supports School of the Americas

Wesley Clark is a big booster of the controversial "School of the Americas"-which critics charge has history of graduating Latin American soldiers accused of rape, murder and torture. Clark fought for years to keep the school at Fort Benning, Ga., open, even testifying on its behalf in Congress, despite graduates like imprisoned Panamanian ex-strongman Manuel Noriega.

Clark's backing of the school-whose curriculum once included teaching torture, execution, kidnapping & blackmail-puts him at odds with many Democrats and groups like Amnesty International, who want the school closed.In response to complaints, the Pentagon "closed" the school in 2000, but reopened it in 2001 under a new name.

Clark isn't embarrassed about ties to the military installation-his campaign website features a commencement speech he delivered there a few years ago. "There is nothing going on in these institutions that you in the US Congress wouldn't be extraordinarily proud of," Clark once testified to Congress.

Source: Vincent Morris, New York Post Dec 18, 2003

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