Salon
Wes Clark and the neocon dream
In 2007, the retired General described a necon “policy coup” aimed at toppling the governments of 7 countries
By GLENN GREENWALD
In October, 2007, Gen. Wesley Clark gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco (seven-minute excerpt in the video below) in which he denounced what he called “a policy coup” engineered by neocons in the wake of 9/11. After recounting how a Pentagon source had told him weeks after 9/11 of the Pentagon’s plan to attack Iraq notwithstanding its non-involvement in 9/11, this is how Clark described the aspirations of the “coup” being plotted by Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and what he called “a half dozen other collaborators from the Project for the New American Century”:
Six weeks later, I saw the same officer, and asked: “Why haven’t we attacked Iraq? Are we still going to attack Iraq?”
He said: “Sir, it’s worse than that. He said - he pulled up a piece of paper off his desk - he said: “I just got this memo from the Secretary of Defense’s office. It says we’re going to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years - we’re going to start with Iraq, and then we’re going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.”
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Wesley for all his bluster is a fan of Russia like his good pal Hillary Clinton. They talk tough but that is for looks to get ahead in politics... like Hillary claiming Trump was a Russian asset while her husband Bill was being paid to give speeches in Moscow.