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Wesley Clark

He may have won the war, but he lost his job. Gen. Wesley Clark, 54, who led the Kosovo military campaign, was asked to retire early from his post as NATO commander last week. The official line: that he stepped aside to make room for Gen. Joseph Ralston, whose term as the No. 2 officer at the Pentagon ends in February.

But the real reason for Clark's ouster may be that the famously political general was impolitic. Pentagon insiders say Clark's frequent and public complaint that politicians had tied his hands during the Kosovo war irked his boss, Defense Secretary William Cohen. Cohen reportedly also was none too pleased that Clark's aides ...

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