General Wesley Clark's warning about the Pentagon's Plan for the Middle East.
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This is an excerpt of Gen. Wesley Clark in a Democracy Now interview with Amy Goodman:
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
AMY GOODMAN: I'm sorry. What did you say his name was?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: I'm not going to give you his name.
AMY GOODMAN: So, go through the countries again.
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, starting with Iraq, then Syria and Lebanon, then Libya, then Somalia and Sudan, and back to Iran.
http://warisacrime.org/node/19200
This is his speech on Oct.3 2007
Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco
He discribes the national Coup and the Pentagon's plan to take out countries in the middle east
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It has been about 7 or 8 years since I last talked with Wes Clark one on one, but at the time he told me he feared that Cheneybush was absolutely going to invade Iran. Although not in the military, I still couldn't see it. Republicans are basically cowards at heart, and they usually don't like to pick hot fights with enemies they know will shoot back. Iraq was already a bad miscalculation (Rumsfeld had said in 2003 that Iraq would take "maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months"
. Even Cheneybush knew that an invasion of Iran would encounter massive Iranian popular resistance and involve tens of thousands of American casualties along with millions of Iranians. But Wes was still convinced, despite all the common sense that argued against it, they were planning to invade Iran. I couldn't figure out what made him so sure and he wouldn't say. Considering his source, no wonder he was so sure that such plans existed. He wasn't just sure. He knew. How lucky we all are that Cheney never got to implement them!
NGO's Overturning governments, and False flag ops to get us into endless wars abound! Now, Who's a conspiracy Nut? eah?
