RUSSERT: "By who? Who did that?"
CLARK: "Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.' I said, 'But--I'm willing to say it, but what's your evidence?' And I never got any evidence." ---
He still has yet to name who called him. He is most likely just lying.
As far as Kosovo is concerned, I could go on forever about our mistakes and choosing the wrong side. Clark was a failure, especially when he started supporting the terrorist KLA/UCK Muslims on the ground. Thanks for the blowback, Clark.
Very odd article in a way, no mention of Milosevic. Gen. Clark has a lot of opinions on why and why not we should be in Iraq.
He should tell us again why we went into Yugoslavia's Kosovo. He should be hauled back and court martialed!
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Yugoslavia:
He has said he believes America was founded upon the principles of "progressive taxation" (Plank #2 - Communist Manifesto) and has shared the stage several times with Worker's World, an international Marxist organization devoted to the destruction of capitalism.
That should give you a clue.
Conservatives condemed Clark at the time of the incident and we didn't know if he was a republican or democrat. We just knew that he was a lousy military leader with an uncontroled temper that was extremely dangerous.
The other part, however, is a sort of an elephant in the living room problem which arises from our recently having bombed a totally innocent nation into the stone age for the benefit of narco-terrorists, and to take a credible rape allegation against an impeached president off the front pages of our newspapers.
Aside from the fact that all available evidence indicated that the whole problem in Kosovo was the Albanians and not the Serbs, there is another phenomenon which I notice, and I'm wondering if I'm the only person on the planet who has noticed this. It concerns the manner in which the US military conducts itself when given unreasonable orders, versus its conduct in carrying out reasonable orders.
As near as I could tell during the Kosovo operation, NATO commanders realized that this thing was another episode of dog-wagging which they could not ask pilots to risk their lives over and ordered bombing attacks practically from orbit, and then when they realized they could not harm the Serbian military from 25,000', embarked upon a wholesale campaign of what most people would call war crimes, targetting the Serbian people and their infrastructure hundreds of kilometers from any legitimate military target.
The Geneva conventions of 1947 totally outlaw the kind of warfare which was waged in WW-II and by those conventions as well as every other concept of the laws of war which have existed since WW-II, Wesley Clark is a war criminal. The idea of bombing the petrochemical plant at Pancevo, for instance, was called an act of international terrorism by the Russians and, as far as I am concerned, they're right.
During the Iraq operation on the other hand, American troops clearly saw a just cause and were completely willing to put themselves into harms way for it, and the results were vastly different. Kosovo created a seething cauldren of hatred against the United States which has yet to be dealt with. Iraq has created a reservoir of good will amongst Iraqis, and many middle easterners are having to rethink a number of standardized opinions on account of it.
Aside from every other problem with Kosovo, the precedent which it represents cannot possibly be allowed to stand. If ethnicity is everything and ownership and sovereignty don't mean anything anymore, then what are we going to say when the UN comes here demanding that we hand Texas, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and California over to Mexico on the same perverted basis?
***Sigh***...
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
I'd venture to say he was lying about the call...if he was that much of an insider, he would know about the Commission.
Incredibly this IDIOTIC Clark quote is proudly displayed on the Draft Clark website.
No! Clinton was a Rhodes scholar candidate, but he was too busy committing treason in Moscow by organizing anti-American rallies during a time of war (in which the Soviets were aiding our enemy) to finish his studies. Therefore, he is not a Rhodes scholar, but merely a former candidate.
No! Clinton was a Rhodes scholar candidate, but he was too busy committing treason in Moscow by organizing anti-American rallies during a time of war (in which the Soviets were aiding our enemy) to finish his studies. Therefore, he is not a Rhodes scholar, but merely a former candidate.