He is currently attending and speaking at a major conference in the Gulf Region. Tomorrow, which is today there, he will addressing the assembly about regional strategy and security.

Moderate Arabs remember who put their job on the line to save the lives of Muslims who don't have oil. They like and respect Wes Clark.

Notice that our MSM is not covering a conference that includes leaders, scholars, and members of the U.N. It would seem that 600 people have gathered.

One statement that leaked back via The Washington Note:

This senior policy official stated that he had never seen a Secretary of State as weak, disorganized, and without a plan of any kind than Condoleezza Rice -- and this from someone who strenuously insists that he and many other regional foreign policy officials want to be supportive of her and the U.S.
He stated that American withdrawal from Iraq -- despite the growing clamor for that -- would yield a complete change in the profile and character of nearly every one of the Middle East's 22 countries. He said that several governments in the region -- outside of Iraq -- could very easily "and would probably fall."

The Washinton Note