AT THE CONGRESIONAL BLACK CAUCUS presidential debate on Sunday, Huel Perkins, an anchor at WJBK TV in Detroit, asked General Wesley Clark a pointed question. How, Perkins wanted to know, can Clark run as a national security candidate when his position on the Iraq war changes so frequently? “I think I’ve been very consistent from the beginning,” Clark said. “I’ve been against this war from the beginning. I was against it last summer, I was against it in the fall, I was against it in the winter, I was against it in the spring. And I’m against it now.”

It’s true that Clark is against the war these days. Or so he says. And he may have been against the war last summer. But the record shows that Clark wasn’t against the war last fall, or last winter, or even last spring. Let’s look back at Clark’s positions on the war, using the seasons that Clark mentioned as benchmarks.