War Criminal Wesley Clark for President?
1. Links
2. A commentary by Rick Rozoff
3. A commentary by Mitchel Cohen
4. A commentary by Wayne Madsen at counterpunch.org
5. Extracts from http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (with many
interesting links!)
=== 1 ===
LINKS:
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html
(read some extracts below in this posting)
Citizen Clark?
Or, Why Electing a Mass Murderer Is a Really Bad Idea
(by Nebojsa Malic)
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m091803.html
A Clinton by Another Name? (by Lowell Ponte)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9889
The New Anti-War Candidate?
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-antiwar.html
Wesley Clark's Ties To Muslim Terrorists (by Cliff Kincaid)
http://www.aim.org/publications/weekly_column/2003/09/17.html
THE EARLY DEPARTURE - articles about Clark
http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/departure.htm
General in Balkan War Says Pentagon Hampered NATO
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/dao/Curriculum%20Ops/
Leadership%20Lecture%20Series/LLS_00-01/articles/
General%20in%20Balkan%20War%20Says%20Pentagon%20Hampered%20NATO.htm
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. AND NATO GUILTY
http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
By Jim Naureckas
http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html
From Waco to Belgrade: Wesley Clark and America's "Army of the Future"
http://www.brasscheck.com/yugoslavia/clarkatwaco.html
Genocide or Veracicide Will NATO's Lying Ever Stop? by Stephen Gowans
http://www.swans.com/library/art7/gowans02.html
=== 2 ===
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 19:42:16 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Clark For President
The die is cast. An apt expression, as it was coined -
in a political context - by Julius Caesar when, as
Roman commander in Gaul, he decided to cross the
Rubicon River and defy the Senate, signaling the end
of the Republic.
This abhorrent would-be Imperator, a classical Man on
Horseback, is running to the rescue of a very troubled
system, one stretched to the breaking point overseas
and rapidly rotting from within.
So whoever it is who has designated Clark the New
Order's savior (and it's not the clueless Michael
Moore) presents Americans and the world with a
*humanitarian, multilateralist and internationalist*
alternative to a sinking Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime that could be knocked over with a feather at
the moment if anything serious - a genuine peace and
disarmament campaign and candidate - dared challenge
it.
The point of the Clark initiative, however, is not to
challenge the system and its decades' long disastrous,
inhuman policies, but precisely to bail it out with a
'fresh voice in a lackluster campaign season' and all
the other pre-prepared cliches currently abounding in
the establishment press outlets.
Make no mistake. Clark is a life-long militarist,
imperialist and war criminal; baptized in blood in
Indochina; implicated, as US Southern Command head, in
some of the worst death squad brutalities in Colombia
in 1996-97; and, as his culminating enormity,
ruthlessly and with gratuitous recklessness and
savagery commanding the Hitlerian war against the
people of Yugoslavia for 79 days in 1999.
The first unprovoked war, the first relentless
campaign of lethal air power against a European nation
and people since the defeat of the Third Reich some 58
years ago.
To have, as the US now does, a career general and
fellow Vietnam (and Operation Desert Storm) militarist
as foreign minister/Secretary of State is ominous
enough.
To escalate this disturbing trend to the level of
having Wesley Clark making a viable bid for the White
House, whether as chief executive or as shadow
president for a Dean administration - essentially
playing Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld to Dean's
George W. Bush - would broadcast to the world the fact
that the US has dropped all pretense of being a
civilian power and has nakedly announced its intention
to make a final play for world political and military
dominance.
Clark as president - or, more likely, vice-president -
would be no more a 'multilateralist' than he was as US
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe/NATO Commander.
Who outside the increasingly sodden, coopted, suborned
commercial Fourth Estate can believe or expect others
to that Clark 'consulted' with his alleged NATO
partners - Luxemburg, say, or Iceland - before,
increasingly thwarted by both Yugoslavia's military
defense and the spirited opposition of its people, he
abandoned all pretense of targeting military forces
and installations and unleashed a two month long
'targets of opportunity' rampage against power
plants, oil depots, civilian broadcasting facilities,
passenger trains and buses, refugee columns and
religious processions, apartment complexes and
maternity wards, every bridge across the Danube River,
culminating in the devastation of the the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade with the deaths of three Chinese
citizens and warnings by then Russian president Boris
Yeltsin that if such aggression didn't cease 'there
will be war in Europe and possibly a world war'?
A world war, with the world's two major nuclear
powers, the US and Russia, was exactly what was
narrowly averted when British commander Sir Michael
Jackson refused Clark's order to militarily - with
first paratroopers, then with tanks - assault the
Russian troops who had deployed from Bosnia to the
airport in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in June of
1999.
This trademark event epitomizes what could be expected
of a Wesley Clark in the White House.
He already has a record: One of unprecedented
aggressive adventurism and cynical disregard for
international law and even the norms of warfare.
One of contempt for human life and a sociopathic
thrillseeker's obsession with provoking the
unthinkable. He's proven it beyond any doubt.
One of many tragedies unfolding at the moment is that
many otherwise well-motivated Americans, spooked into
moral panic by the Bush administration - which
presents an unquestioned world danger that cannot be
overestimated - have been swept up by the tide of
'anyone but Bush,' which is to say any Democrat but
Bush, and as such are easy prey for the other wing of
the imperial hawk, that which mirrors and echoes in
every genuine particular the arrogant and brute
designs of the Project for the New American Century
cabal that dominates the Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime.
Clark, as alarming and as appalling as he is as an
individual, presents a yet greater danger for the US
and the world: Diabolical cynicism disguised as
altruism and idealism, a doctrine of international
military conquest cloaked in the sheepskin of a peace
candidate, an irreversible capitulation by the
erstwhile peace movement to the most callous form of
Realpolitik.
=== 3 ===
Da: mitchelcohen
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 18:51:28 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] Gen. Wesley Clark --
War Criminal, Don't Be Fooled
Gen. Wesley Clark is a major war criminal.
Please don't be fooled by the
current well-orchestrated push to nominate
Clark as Democratic Party
nominee for president, at trap which
Michael Moore has apparently fallen
into as well as a number of other well-
meaning peace people.
Gen. Wesley Clark was in charge of
refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s
where Haitian refugees who were fleeing
first Baby Doc Duvalier (and later
the new regime installed by the US following
the overthrowal of the elected
Aristide government in the early 1990s),
were packed, under appalling
conditions condemned by the Center for
Constitutional Rights, among many
others. In the 1980s, many Haitian male
refugees incarcerated at Krome (in
Miami), and Fort Allen (in Puerto Rico)
reported a strange condition called
gyneacomastia, a situation in which they
developed full female breasts. Ira
Kurzban, attorney for the Haitian Refugee
Center, managed to pry free
government documents via a lawsuit on
behalf of the refugees. These
contained the startling information that
prison officials had ordered the
refugees sprayed repeatedly with
highly toxic chemicals never designed for
such generic use. The officer in charge
of the refugee camp? None other
than Gen. Wesley Clark, chief of operations
at the US Navy internment camp
at Guantanamo, and later head of NATO
forces bombing Yugoslavia. The
documents go on to say that lengthy
exposure to the particular chemicals
can cause hormonal changes that
induce development of female breasts.
Medical studies of female Haitian
refugees in New York revealed that they
had a much higher rate of cervical
cancer than the rest of the female population.
Half a decade later, Gen Welsey Clark
was supreme NATO commander in
Yugoslavia. He presided over the massive
use of depeleted uranium weapons
there which poisoned Yugoslavia's water
supply and agriculture, leading to
an extremely high rate of miscarriages
and childhood cancers.
Clark was in charge of NATO's "spin" in
the Yugoslavia bombardment. Clark
called the destruction of a Yugoslav train
filled with civilians by a NATO
missile "an uncanny accident." He said
the same each time that NATO bombed
civilian targets, which happened frequently.
Paul Watson reported in the San Francisco
Chronicle that "NATO bombers
scored several direct hits here in Kosovo's
capital yesterday — including a
graveyard, a bus station, and a children's
basketball court." (April 14) A
Spanish pilot flying missions for NATO,
Capt. Martin de la Hoz, stated that
on a number of occasions his supervising
colonel protested to NATO about
their bombing of non-military, civilian
targets. "Once there was a coded
order from the North American military
that we should drop anti-personnel
bombs over Pristina and Nis. All of the
missions that we flew, all and each
one, were planned in detail, including
attacking planes, targets and type
of ammunition, by US high-ranking
military authorities. ... They are
destroying the country," the Spanish
F-18 pilot continued, "bombing it with
novel weapons, toxic nerve gasses,
surface mines dropped by parachute,
bombs containing uranium, black
napalm, sterilization chemicals, sprayings
to poison crops, and weapons of which
even we still know nothing about."
(quoted in "Articulo 20," a Spanish weekly
newspaper, June 14, 1999)
Clark defended all of these bombings, and
was an integral part of the
Clinton team's "spin" operation in Yugoslavia.
- Mitchel Cohen
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http://counterpunch.org/madsen09182003.html
CounterPunch
September 18, 2003
Wesley Clark for President?
Another Con Job from the Neo-Cons
By WAYNE MADSEN
Let it never be said the neo-conservatives are not
persistent. That's why they must be rounded up by the
FBI and charged with violating the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes.
But let's save that issue for another time.
The latest trick of the neo-cons is running retired
General Wesley Clark for President as a Democrat. But
not just any Democrat -- a "New Democrat." The same
bunch that are pushing Joe Lieberman's candidacy are
obviously hedging on their bets and want to have Clark
in the race as a potential vice presidential candidate
(to ensure their continued influence in a future
Democratic administration of Howard Dean, John Kerry,
or Dick Gephardt) or as a "go-to" candidate in the
event that Lieberman stumbles badly in the first few
Democratic primaries next year.
The "New Democrats" (neo-cons) are as much masters at
the perception management (lying) game as their GOP
counterparts (Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald
Rumsfeld). Clark's presidential candidacy announcement
in Little Rock is one warning sign. This city is a
sort of "Mecca" for the neo-con Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC) and its main nurturers, Al From and
Bruce Reed. It was from Little Rock where the DLC
propelled a little known governor named Bill Clinton
into the White House. And although Clinton did not
turn out exactly as conservative as the DLC hoped for,
his support for globalization and selected use of U.S.
military power abroad were neo-con keystone successes.
Now enter "Arkansan" Wesley Clark. Like Hillary
Clinton, Clark is a Chicago transplant to Little Rock.
And he is about as power driven as the former First
Lady. According to Pentagon insiders, when Clark was
Commander of the US Southern Command in Panama from
June 1996 to July 1997, he was fond of "ordering"
Latin American military commanders and defense
ministers to appear before him. Some of the Latin
American officials, particularly those from Brazil,
Argentina, and Chile, refused to be bullied by Clark,
whose personality is said to be acerbic. From his
pro-consul position in Panama, Clark supported with US
military advisers and American mercenaries, continued
warfare against anti-oligarchic movements in Colombia,
Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and Bolivia.
Fast forward to the Kosovo wars when Clark was NATO
commander. Not only did Clark lord over the first
unprovoked aerial bombardment of a major European city
(Belgrade) since Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe pounded
virtually defenseless European cities, but he almost
got into a shooting war with Russian peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo. It was only the intervention of the
British government, Defense Secretary William Cohen,
and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton that
prevented Clark from starting World War III. When
Clark ordered British Lt. Gen. Michael Jackson to
forcibly block Kosovo's Pristina Airport to prevent
Russian planes from landing, the Briton replied, "Sir,
Ia*TMm not starting World War III for you.a** Jackson
was backed up all the way to Number 10 Downing Street.
Clark was forced to back down. Eventually, Cohen fired
Clark as NATO commander three months before his term
was to expire.
Before becoming NATO Commander, Clark was the Director
for Strategic Plans and Policy within the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. From this vantage point, Clark was well
aware of and likely supported the arming of the
Bosnian government by accepting contributions from
various deep-pocketed Muslim countries, including
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Brunei, Jordan, and
Egypt. Via something called the Bosnia Defense Fund,
these countries deposited millions of dollars into
U.S. coffers to buy weapons for the Bosnians and train
them in their use through the use of private military
contractors like Military Professional Resources, Inc.
(MPRI). And when some of the weapons and cash for the
Bosnians became "unaccounted for," where did some of
the guns and cash wind up? In the hands of Al Qaeda
and Iranian Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) units in
Bosnia.
More interestingly is how General Clark's Bosnia
strategy ultimately goes full circle. According to
Washington K Street sources, the law firm that
established the Bosnia Defense Fund was none other
than Feith and Zell, the firm of current Pentagon
official and leading neo-con Douglas Feith. Feith's
operation at Feith and Zell was assisted by his
one-time boss and current member of Rumsfeld's Defense
Policy Board, Richard Perle. Both Feith and Perle
advised the Bosnian delegation during the 1995 Dayton
Peace talks. The chief U.S. military negotiator in
Dayton was Wesley Clark.
A long time ago, the French, tired of war, turned to a
short general named Napoleon to lead them to peace and
prosperity. Instead, Napoleon seized imperial power
and ensured the French would have more war. After four
years of Bush, the neo-con Fifth Column in the
Democratic Party is trying to convince us that Clark
is the "anti-war" candidate. Tell that to the people
of Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro. Tell that to the
coca farmer in Bolivia or Colombia who is trying to
feed his family. Let's not fall for the deception and
tricks of the neo-cons again. If you are tired of
Bush, Cheney, and the neo-cons and their phony wars,
Clark is certainly not the answer. He has been, and
remains part of, the great deception of the American
people.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative
journalist and columnist. He wrote the introduction to
Forbidden Truth. He is the co-author, with John
Stanton, of the forthcoming book, "America's
Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II."
=== 5 ===
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (EXTRACTS)
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
For those in the audience who did not have a flier, I began to explain
the picture [http://www.decani.yunet.com/kla2.html%5d which showed
General Clark in a congratulatory handshake with Hashim Thaci, leader
of the KLA, which under the noses of KFOR had murdered or ethnically
cleansed thousands of Kosovo Serbs and had destroyed more Orthodox
Christian churches and monasteries than were destroyed in 500 years
under the Ottoman Empire. Next to Thaci was Bernard Kouchner, Chief
U.N. administrator in Kosovo, British General Sir Michael Jackson, and
Agim Ceku, who commanded the Croatian Army in "Operation Storm" that
ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Krajina and murdered thousands
and who now commands the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), the thinly
disguised successor to the KLA. It should be noted that the KLA, with
whom we allied ourselves, at one time was designated by the U.S. State
Department as a terrorist organization. Of course, this is the same KLA
about whom Senator Joe Lieberman said: "The United States of America
and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same values and principles
. . . Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
values." (Washington Post, Apr.28, 1999). Clark at Borders bookstore
[http://www.mbruce.addr.com/clarkatborders.htm%5d, Pentagon Center Mall,
17 Jul 2001 by Colonel George Jatras, USAF (Ret.) *
At the beginning of the Kosovo conflict,CounterPunch delved into the
military career of General Wesley Clark
[http://www.counterpunch.org/clark.html%5d and discovered that his
meteoric rise through the ranks derived from the successful
manipulation of appearances: faking the results of combat exercises,
greasing to superiors and other practices common to the general officer
corps. We correctly predicted that the unspinnable realities of a real
war would cause him to become unhinged. Given that Clark attempted to
bomb the CNN bureau in Belgrade and ordered the British General Michael
Jackson to engage Russian troops in combat at the end of the war, we
feel events amply vindicated our forecast. With the end of hostilities
it has become clear even to Clark that most people, apart from some
fanatical members of the war party in the White House and State
Department, consider the general, as one Pentagon official puts it, "a
horse's ass". Defense Secretary William Cohen is known to loathe him,
and has seen to it that the Hammer of the Serbs will be relieved of the
Nato command two months early. Gen. Wesley Clark Fights On and On
[http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38331cb52099.htm%5d
The guy who almost started World War III?
From The Guardian, Tuesday August 3, 1999:
No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians
played a crucial role in ending the west's war against Yugoslavia than
we learn that if Nato's supreme commander, the American General Wesley
Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed
Pristina airport threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis
with Moscow since the end of the cold war.
"I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike
Jackson, commander of the international K-For peacekeeping force, is
reported to have told Gen Clark when he refused to accept an order to
send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the
airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital.
Robertson's plum job in a warring Nato
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,70632,00.html%5d
Mary Robinson, the UN human rights commissioner, said Nato's bombing
campaign had lost its "moral purpose". Referring to the cluster bomb
attack on residential areas and market in the Serbian town of Nis, she
described Nato's range of targets as "very broad" and "almost
unfocused". There were too many mistakes; the bombing of the Serbian
television station in Belgrade - which killed a make-up woman, among
others - was "not acceptable". No blood money
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,69090,00.html%5d by
Richard Norton-Taylor on the moral confusion of Nato, which refuses
compensation to the innocent people it bombed.
NATO justified the bombing of the Belgrade TV station, saying it was a
legitimate military target. "We've struck at his TV stations and
transmitters because they're as much a part of his military machine
prolonging and promoting this conflict as his army and security
forces," U.S. General Wesley Clark explained--"his," of course,
referring to Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic. It wasn't
Milosevic, however, who was killed when the Belgrade studios were
bombed on April 23, but rather 20 journalists, technicians and other
civilians.
Clark's logic is exactly the same as that of the death squad commander
who orders the assassination of a journalist or a publisher whose
opposition newspaper supports the goals of a guerrilla movement. The
targeting of the studio was a war crime, perhaps the most indisputable
of several war crimes committed by NATO in its war against Yugoslavia.
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
[http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html%5d
A panel of 16 judges from 11 countries at a people’s tribunal meeting
in New York June 10 before 500 people found U.S. and NATO political and
military leaders guilty of war crimes against Yugoslavia in the March
24-June 10, 1999 assault on that country. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS
U.S. AND NATO GUILTY [http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm%5d
(...)
ROBERT NOVAK: Members of Congress who, during their spring recess, met
in Brussels with Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander, were
startled by his bellicosity. According to the lawmakers, Clark
suggested the best way to handle Russia's supply of oil to Yugoslavia
would be aerial bombardment of the pipeline that runs through Hungary.
He also proposed bombing Russian warships that enter the battle zone.
The American general was described by the members of the congressional
delegation as waging a personal vendetta against Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic. "I think the general might need a little sleep,"
commented one House member.- Balkan News from The Progressive Review
[http://prorev.com/balkan.htm%5d
"I am a kind of hard-nosed, dusty boots armor man who knows what it
takes to maneuver men," Clark said.
Clark is a longtime friend of Clinton and his current position has more
to do with his political flexibility than his war making prowess. He is
reportedly referred to as the " Supreme Being " by the more earnest
soldiers under his command.
From ... did anyone else notice that Clark was commanding Fort Hood,
Texas during the Waco incident? Most (if not all) of the illegal
military hardware and personnel used against the women and children at
Waco came from Fort Hood, Texas
"Known by those who've served with him as the "Ultimate Perfumed
Prince," he's far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing
political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets
fly and soldiers die." - CLARK AND VIETNAM - DEFENDING AMERICA by David
H. Hackworth, April 20, 1999 [http://www.hackworth.com/20Apr99.html%5d
"He says the basic problem with US armed forces is that selfless grunts
willing to die for their country are being sold out by selfish
"perfumed princes" like Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf with the
blessing of "morally corrupt" political leaders from the president on
down. He says we can have a far more efficient fighting force and still
cut the military budget from US$300 billion to $150 to $200 billion, if
we consolidate our four military services into one, pull out of Korea
and Europe (which can defend themselves), and stop procuring expensive
high-tech weapons systems we don't need. Noise
[http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/netizenaudio/96/46/index3a.html%5d -
Hackworth talks about his new book Hazardous Duty, which he describes
as an attempt to "wake up America" about our urgent need to reform the
military.
Total length: 15 minutes, 17 seconds ... David Hackworth's home page
[http://www.hackworth.com/%5d
"The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general
officer) corps"
What role did Nato's top commander have in the FBI's ill-fated raid on
the Branch Davidians compound outside Waco, Texas? Was Clark at Waco?
[http://www.counterpunch.org/waco.html%5d
Clark was born on 23 December 1944 and grew up in Little Rock,
Arkansas. He is married to the former Gertrude Kingston of Brooklyn,
New York. He and his wife have one son, Wesley, who lives in
California. *
Military Bio for GEN Wesley K. Clark USA
[http://www.eucom.mil/people/clark/bio.htm%5d "... General Wesley K.
Clark, U.S. Army, became the Commander in Chief of the United States
European Command on 10 July 1997....a 1966 graduate of the United
States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated
first in his class. He holds a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics
and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes
Scholar (August 1966-August 1968). He is a graduate of the National War
College, Command and General Staff College, Armor Officer Advanced and
Basic Courses, and Ranger and Airborne schools. General Clark was a
White House Fellow in 1975-1976 and served as a Special Assistant to
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He has also served
as an instructor and later Assistant Professor of Social Science at the
United States Military Academy. Clark grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas"
Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/%5d ... JUN 26 -
NOV 5, 2000 [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/after2.htm%5d Gen. Clark: According
to The Times, former SACEUR Gen. Clark "has fired a bitter parting
shot" at his Pentagon bosses, suggesting that the United States is
being weakened by fear of battlefield casualties. At a ceremony marking
his retirement from the U.S. Army last Friday, Gen. Clark reportedly
unleashed a thinly veiled attack on Washington leaders for shying away
from bold action that could lead to loss of life. "What better to fight
for than what you believe in and value?", he asked at the military
ceremony at Fort Meyer, Washington. The time had come for the army
leadership to develop "a new mentality," he said, adding: "Give us a
mission and send us in." The newspaper notes Gen. Clark is now writing
his memoirs and suggests these are sure to bring him into dispute again
with the Pentagon and his former superiors. The July 3
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000703/3whisplead.htm%5d edition of
U.S. News & World Report notes Gen. Clark has obtained a job analyzing
technology firms for an investment bank in Arkansas and has several
corporate-board offers. But the weekly adds, "the worry in Washington
is whether Clark, said to have railed on Pentagon brass for
micromanaging the (Kosovo conflict), will publicly unload on them."
Interview with General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) on Security Issues -
August 8, 2000
[http://www.speakout.com/activism/interviews/clark_080900.asp%5d -- Gen.
Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army Ret., was the Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe from July 1997 to May 2000. Clark was in overall command of
NATO's military forces in Europe and commanded the alliance's military
response to the Kosovo crisis -- Operation Allied Force. He is now with
the Stephens Group Inc. in venture capital and a senior advisor with
the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
What is Clark doing now?
... joined Little Rock-based Stephens Group Inc. [111 Center Street,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (800) 643-9691, www.stephens.com] as a
corporate consultant to help develop emerging-technology companies. For
Immediate Release [http://www.stephens.com/about/clark_release.asp%5d
June 29, 2000 ... "U.S. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark recently retired
after 34 years of dedicated military service to his country. A native
of Little Rock, Ark., Clark and his wife now reside in Arlington, Va.
Their son, Wesley Jr., is a screenwriter in Los Angeles."
Also a senior adviser at CSIS [http://www.csis.org/%5d - (Center for
Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, N.W. Washington,
D.C. 20006 Fax 202-775-3153 ]
(...)
Among his military decorations are the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal (five awards), Distinguished Service Medal (two awards), Silver
Star, Legion of Merit (four awards), Bronze Star Medal (two awards),
Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards) and the Army
Commendation Medal (two awards), NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to Kosovo, NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
His Foreign awards include the Honorary Knight Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire (United Kingdom); Commander of
the Legion of Honor (France); Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany; Knight Grand Cross in the Order of
Orange-Nassau, with Swords (Netherlands); Grand Officer of the Order of
Merit of the Republic of Italy; Grand Cross of the Medal of Military
Merit (Portugal); The Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit
of Republic of Poland; Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg; Grand Medal of Military Merit (White Band)
(Spain); The Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (Belgium); Cross of
Merit of the Minister of Defense First Class (Czech Republic); Order of
Merit of the Hungarian Republic; Commander's Cross, The Silver Order of
Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia; Madarski Konnik Medal (Bulgaria);
Commemorative Medal of the Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic
First Class (Slovakia); First Class Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke
Gediminas (Lithuania); Order of the Cross of the Eagle (Estonia); The
Skandeberg Medal (Albania); Order of Merit of Morocco; Order of Merit
of Argentina; The Grade of Prince Butmir w/Ribbon and Star (Croatia)
and the Military Service Cross of Canada.
1. Links
2. A commentary by Rick Rozoff
3. A commentary by Mitchel Cohen
4. A commentary by Wayne Madsen at counterpunch.org
5. Extracts from http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (with many
interesting links!)
=== 1 ===
LINKS:
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html
(read some extracts below in this posting)
Citizen Clark?
Or, Why Electing a Mass Murderer Is a Really Bad Idea
(by Nebojsa Malic)
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m091803.html
A Clinton by Another Name? (by Lowell Ponte)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9889
The New Anti-War Candidate?
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-antiwar.html
Wesley Clark's Ties To Muslim Terrorists (by Cliff Kincaid)
http://www.aim.org/publications/weekly_column/2003/09/17.html
THE EARLY DEPARTURE - articles about Clark
http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/departure.htm
General in Balkan War Says Pentagon Hampered NATO
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/dao/Curriculum%20Ops/
Leadership%20Lecture%20Series/LLS_00-01/articles/
General%20in%20Balkan%20War%20Says%20Pentagon%20Hampered%20NATO.htm
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. AND NATO GUILTY
http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
By Jim Naureckas
http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html
From Waco to Belgrade: Wesley Clark and America's "Army of the Future"
http://www.brasscheck.com/yugoslavia/clarkatwaco.html
Genocide or Veracicide Will NATO's Lying Ever Stop? by Stephen Gowans
http://www.swans.com/library/art7/gowans02.html
=== 2 ===
Da: Rick Rozoff
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 19:42:16 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: Clark For President
The die is cast. An apt expression, as it was coined -
in a political context - by Julius Caesar when, as
Roman commander in Gaul, he decided to cross the
Rubicon River and defy the Senate, signaling the end
of the Republic.
This abhorrent would-be Imperator, a classical Man on
Horseback, is running to the rescue of a very troubled
system, one stretched to the breaking point overseas
and rapidly rotting from within.
So whoever it is who has designated Clark the New
Order's savior (and it's not the clueless Michael
Moore) presents Americans and the world with a
*humanitarian, multilateralist and internationalist*
alternative to a sinking Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime that could be knocked over with a feather at
the moment if anything serious - a genuine peace and
disarmament campaign and candidate - dared challenge
it.
The point of the Clark initiative, however, is not to
challenge the system and its decades' long disastrous,
inhuman policies, but precisely to bail it out with a
'fresh voice in a lackluster campaign season' and all
the other pre-prepared cliches currently abounding in
the establishment press outlets.
Make no mistake. Clark is a life-long militarist,
imperialist and war criminal; baptized in blood in
Indochina; implicated, as US Southern Command head, in
some of the worst death squad brutalities in Colombia
in 1996-97; and, as his culminating enormity,
ruthlessly and with gratuitous recklessness and
savagery commanding the Hitlerian war against the
people of Yugoslavia for 79 days in 1999.
The first unprovoked war, the first relentless
campaign of lethal air power against a European nation
and people since the defeat of the Third Reich some 58
years ago.
To have, as the US now does, a career general and
fellow Vietnam (and Operation Desert Storm) militarist
as foreign minister/Secretary of State is ominous
enough.
To escalate this disturbing trend to the level of
having Wesley Clark making a viable bid for the White
House, whether as chief executive or as shadow
president for a Dean administration - essentially
playing Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld to Dean's
George W. Bush - would broadcast to the world the fact
that the US has dropped all pretense of being a
civilian power and has nakedly announced its intention
to make a final play for world political and military
dominance.
Clark as president - or, more likely, vice-president -
would be no more a 'multilateralist' than he was as US
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe/NATO Commander.
Who outside the increasingly sodden, coopted, suborned
commercial Fourth Estate can believe or expect others
to that Clark 'consulted' with his alleged NATO
partners - Luxemburg, say, or Iceland - before,
increasingly thwarted by both Yugoslavia's military
defense and the spirited opposition of its people, he
abandoned all pretense of targeting military forces
and installations and unleashed a two month long
'targets of opportunity' rampage against power
plants, oil depots, civilian broadcasting facilities,
passenger trains and buses, refugee columns and
religious processions, apartment complexes and
maternity wards, every bridge across the Danube River,
culminating in the devastation of the the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade with the deaths of three Chinese
citizens and warnings by then Russian president Boris
Yeltsin that if such aggression didn't cease 'there
will be war in Europe and possibly a world war'?
A world war, with the world's two major nuclear
powers, the US and Russia, was exactly what was
narrowly averted when British commander Sir Michael
Jackson refused Clark's order to militarily - with
first paratroopers, then with tanks - assault the
Russian troops who had deployed from Bosnia to the
airport in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in June of
1999.
This trademark event epitomizes what could be expected
of a Wesley Clark in the White House.
He already has a record: One of unprecedented
aggressive adventurism and cynical disregard for
international law and even the norms of warfare.
One of contempt for human life and a sociopathic
thrillseeker's obsession with provoking the
unthinkable. He's proven it beyond any doubt.
One of many tragedies unfolding at the moment is that
many otherwise well-motivated Americans, spooked into
moral panic by the Bush administration - which
presents an unquestioned world danger that cannot be
overestimated - have been swept up by the tide of
'anyone but Bush,' which is to say any Democrat but
Bush, and as such are easy prey for the other wing of
the imperial hawk, that which mirrors and echoes in
every genuine particular the arrogant and brute
designs of the Project for the New American Century
cabal that dominates the Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
regime.
Clark, as alarming and as appalling as he is as an
individual, presents a yet greater danger for the US
and the world: Diabolical cynicism disguised as
altruism and idealism, a doctrine of international
military conquest cloaked in the sheepskin of a peace
candidate, an irreversible capitulation by the
erstwhile peace movement to the most callous form of
Realpolitik.
=== 3 ===
Da: mitchelcohen
Data: Mar 16 Set 2003 18:51:28 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] Gen. Wesley Clark --
War Criminal, Don't Be Fooled
Gen. Wesley Clark is a major war criminal.
Please don't be fooled by the
current well-orchestrated push to nominate
Clark as Democratic Party
nominee for president, at trap which
Michael Moore has apparently fallen
into as well as a number of other well-
meaning peace people.
Gen. Wesley Clark was in charge of
refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s
where Haitian refugees who were fleeing
first Baby Doc Duvalier (and later
the new regime installed by the US following
the overthrowal of the elected
Aristide government in the early 1990s),
were packed, under appalling
conditions condemned by the Center for
Constitutional Rights, among many
others. In the 1980s, many Haitian male
refugees incarcerated at Krome (in
Miami), and Fort Allen (in Puerto Rico)
reported a strange condition called
gyneacomastia, a situation in which they
developed full female breasts. Ira
Kurzban, attorney for the Haitian Refugee
Center, managed to pry free
government documents via a lawsuit on
behalf of the refugees. These
contained the startling information that
prison officials had ordered the
refugees sprayed repeatedly with
highly toxic chemicals never designed for
such generic use. The officer in charge
of the refugee camp? None other
than Gen. Wesley Clark, chief of operations
at the US Navy internment camp
at Guantanamo, and later head of NATO
forces bombing Yugoslavia. The
documents go on to say that lengthy
exposure to the particular chemicals
can cause hormonal changes that
induce development of female breasts.
Medical studies of female Haitian
refugees in New York revealed that they
had a much higher rate of cervical
cancer than the rest of the female population.
Half a decade later, Gen Welsey Clark
was supreme NATO commander in
Yugoslavia. He presided over the massive
use of depeleted uranium weapons
there which poisoned Yugoslavia's water
supply and agriculture, leading to
an extremely high rate of miscarriages
and childhood cancers.
Clark was in charge of NATO's "spin" in
the Yugoslavia bombardment. Clark
called the destruction of a Yugoslav train
filled with civilians by a NATO
missile "an uncanny accident." He said
the same each time that NATO bombed
civilian targets, which happened frequently.
Paul Watson reported in the San Francisco
Chronicle that "NATO bombers
scored several direct hits here in Kosovo's
capital yesterday — including a
graveyard, a bus station, and a children's
basketball court." (April 14) A
Spanish pilot flying missions for NATO,
Capt. Martin de la Hoz, stated that
on a number of occasions his supervising
colonel protested to NATO about
their bombing of non-military, civilian
targets. "Once there was a coded
order from the North American military
that we should drop anti-personnel
bombs over Pristina and Nis. All of the
missions that we flew, all and each
one, were planned in detail, including
attacking planes, targets and type
of ammunition, by US high-ranking
military authorities. ... They are
destroying the country," the Spanish
F-18 pilot continued, "bombing it with
novel weapons, toxic nerve gasses,
surface mines dropped by parachute,
bombs containing uranium, black
napalm, sterilization chemicals, sprayings
to poison crops, and weapons of which
even we still know nothing about."
(quoted in "Articulo 20," a Spanish weekly
newspaper, June 14, 1999)
Clark defended all of these bombings, and
was an integral part of the
Clinton team's "spin" operation in Yugoslavia.
- Mitchel Cohen
=== 4 ===
http://counterpunch.org/madsen09182003.html
CounterPunch
September 18, 2003
Wesley Clark for President?
Another Con Job from the Neo-Cons
By WAYNE MADSEN
Let it never be said the neo-conservatives are not
persistent. That's why they must be rounded up by the
FBI and charged with violating the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes.
But let's save that issue for another time.
The latest trick of the neo-cons is running retired
General Wesley Clark for President as a Democrat. But
not just any Democrat -- a "New Democrat." The same
bunch that are pushing Joe Lieberman's candidacy are
obviously hedging on their bets and want to have Clark
in the race as a potential vice presidential candidate
(to ensure their continued influence in a future
Democratic administration of Howard Dean, John Kerry,
or Dick Gephardt) or as a "go-to" candidate in the
event that Lieberman stumbles badly in the first few
Democratic primaries next year.
The "New Democrats" (neo-cons) are as much masters at
the perception management (lying) game as their GOP
counterparts (Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald
Rumsfeld). Clark's presidential candidacy announcement
in Little Rock is one warning sign. This city is a
sort of "Mecca" for the neo-con Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC) and its main nurturers, Al From and
Bruce Reed. It was from Little Rock where the DLC
propelled a little known governor named Bill Clinton
into the White House. And although Clinton did not
turn out exactly as conservative as the DLC hoped for,
his support for globalization and selected use of U.S.
military power abroad were neo-con keystone successes.
Now enter "Arkansan" Wesley Clark. Like Hillary
Clinton, Clark is a Chicago transplant to Little Rock.
And he is about as power driven as the former First
Lady. According to Pentagon insiders, when Clark was
Commander of the US Southern Command in Panama from
June 1996 to July 1997, he was fond of "ordering"
Latin American military commanders and defense
ministers to appear before him. Some of the Latin
American officials, particularly those from Brazil,
Argentina, and Chile, refused to be bullied by Clark,
whose personality is said to be acerbic. From his
pro-consul position in Panama, Clark supported with US
military advisers and American mercenaries, continued
warfare against anti-oligarchic movements in Colombia,
Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and Bolivia.
Fast forward to the Kosovo wars when Clark was NATO
commander. Not only did Clark lord over the first
unprovoked aerial bombardment of a major European city
(Belgrade) since Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe pounded
virtually defenseless European cities, but he almost
got into a shooting war with Russian peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo. It was only the intervention of the
British government, Defense Secretary William Cohen,
and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton that
prevented Clark from starting World War III. When
Clark ordered British Lt. Gen. Michael Jackson to
forcibly block Kosovo's Pristina Airport to prevent
Russian planes from landing, the Briton replied, "Sir,
Ia*TMm not starting World War III for you.a** Jackson
was backed up all the way to Number 10 Downing Street.
Clark was forced to back down. Eventually, Cohen fired
Clark as NATO commander three months before his term
was to expire.
Before becoming NATO Commander, Clark was the Director
for Strategic Plans and Policy within the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. From this vantage point, Clark was well
aware of and likely supported the arming of the
Bosnian government by accepting contributions from
various deep-pocketed Muslim countries, including
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Brunei, Jordan, and
Egypt. Via something called the Bosnia Defense Fund,
these countries deposited millions of dollars into
U.S. coffers to buy weapons for the Bosnians and train
them in their use through the use of private military
contractors like Military Professional Resources, Inc.
(MPRI). And when some of the weapons and cash for the
Bosnians became "unaccounted for," where did some of
the guns and cash wind up? In the hands of Al Qaeda
and Iranian Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) units in
Bosnia.
More interestingly is how General Clark's Bosnia
strategy ultimately goes full circle. According to
Washington K Street sources, the law firm that
established the Bosnia Defense Fund was none other
than Feith and Zell, the firm of current Pentagon
official and leading neo-con Douglas Feith. Feith's
operation at Feith and Zell was assisted by his
one-time boss and current member of Rumsfeld's Defense
Policy Board, Richard Perle. Both Feith and Perle
advised the Bosnian delegation during the 1995 Dayton
Peace talks. The chief U.S. military negotiator in
Dayton was Wesley Clark.
A long time ago, the French, tired of war, turned to a
short general named Napoleon to lead them to peace and
prosperity. Instead, Napoleon seized imperial power
and ensured the French would have more war. After four
years of Bush, the neo-con Fifth Column in the
Democratic Party is trying to convince us that Clark
is the "anti-war" candidate. Tell that to the people
of Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro. Tell that to the
coca farmer in Bolivia or Colombia who is trying to
feed his family. Let's not fall for the deception and
tricks of the neo-cons again. If you are tired of
Bush, Cheney, and the neo-cons and their phony wars,
Clark is certainly not the answer. He has been, and
remains part of, the great deception of the American
people.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative
journalist and columnist. He wrote the introduction to
Forbidden Truth. He is the co-author, with John
Stanton, of the forthcoming book, "America's
Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II."
=== 5 ===
http://www.zpub.com/un/clark.html (EXTRACTS)
Wesley Clark - A War Criminal?
For those in the audience who did not have a flier, I began to explain
the picture [http://www.decani.yunet.com/kla2.html%5d which showed
General Clark in a congratulatory handshake with Hashim Thaci, leader
of the KLA, which under the noses of KFOR had murdered or ethnically
cleansed thousands of Kosovo Serbs and had destroyed more Orthodox
Christian churches and monasteries than were destroyed in 500 years
under the Ottoman Empire. Next to Thaci was Bernard Kouchner, Chief
U.N. administrator in Kosovo, British General Sir Michael Jackson, and
Agim Ceku, who commanded the Croatian Army in "Operation Storm" that
ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Krajina and murdered thousands
and who now commands the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), the thinly
disguised successor to the KLA. It should be noted that the KLA, with
whom we allied ourselves, at one time was designated by the U.S. State
Department as a terrorist organization. Of course, this is the same KLA
about whom Senator Joe Lieberman said: "The United States of America
and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same values and principles
. . . Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American
values." (Washington Post, Apr.28, 1999). Clark at Borders bookstore
[http://www.mbruce.addr.com/clarkatborders.htm%5d, Pentagon Center Mall,
17 Jul 2001 by Colonel George Jatras, USAF (Ret.) *
At the beginning of the Kosovo conflict,CounterPunch delved into the
military career of General Wesley Clark
[http://www.counterpunch.org/clark.html%5d and discovered that his
meteoric rise through the ranks derived from the successful
manipulation of appearances: faking the results of combat exercises,
greasing to superiors and other practices common to the general officer
corps. We correctly predicted that the unspinnable realities of a real
war would cause him to become unhinged. Given that Clark attempted to
bomb the CNN bureau in Belgrade and ordered the British General Michael
Jackson to engage Russian troops in combat at the end of the war, we
feel events amply vindicated our forecast. With the end of hostilities
it has become clear even to Clark that most people, apart from some
fanatical members of the war party in the White House and State
Department, consider the general, as one Pentagon official puts it, "a
horse's ass". Defense Secretary William Cohen is known to loathe him,
and has seen to it that the Hammer of the Serbs will be relieved of the
Nato command two months early. Gen. Wesley Clark Fights On and On
[http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38331cb52099.htm%5d
The guy who almost started World War III?
From The Guardian, Tuesday August 3, 1999:
No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians
played a crucial role in ending the west's war against Yugoslavia than
we learn that if Nato's supreme commander, the American General Wesley
Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed
Pristina airport threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis
with Moscow since the end of the cold war.
"I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike
Jackson, commander of the international K-For peacekeeping force, is
reported to have told Gen Clark when he refused to accept an order to
send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the
airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital.
Robertson's plum job in a warring Nato
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,70632,00.html%5d
Mary Robinson, the UN human rights commissioner, said Nato's bombing
campaign had lost its "moral purpose". Referring to the cluster bomb
attack on residential areas and market in the Serbian town of Nis, she
described Nato's range of targets as "very broad" and "almost
unfocused". There were too many mistakes; the bombing of the Serbian
television station in Belgrade - which killed a make-up woman, among
others - was "not acceptable". No blood money
[http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,69090,00.html%5d by
Richard Norton-Taylor on the moral confusion of Nato, which refuses
compensation to the innocent people it bombed.
NATO justified the bombing of the Belgrade TV station, saying it was a
legitimate military target. "We've struck at his TV stations and
transmitters because they're as much a part of his military machine
prolonging and promoting this conflict as his army and security
forces," U.S. General Wesley Clark explained--"his," of course,
referring to Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic. It wasn't
Milosevic, however, who was killed when the Belgrade studios were
bombed on April 23, but rather 20 journalists, technicians and other
civilians.
Clark's logic is exactly the same as that of the death squad commander
who orders the assassination of a journalist or a publisher whose
opposition newspaper supports the goals of a guerrilla movement. The
targeting of the studio was a war crime, perhaps the most indisputable
of several war crimes committed by NATO in its war against Yugoslavia.
Legitimate Targets? How U.S. Media Supported War Crimes in Yugoslavia
[http://www.fair.org/extra/9907/kosovo-crimes.html%5d
A panel of 16 judges from 11 countries at a people’s tribunal meeting
in New York June 10 before 500 people found U.S. and NATO political and
military leaders guilty of war crimes against Yugoslavia in the March
24-June 10, 1999 assault on that country. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS
U.S. AND NATO GUILTY [http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm%5d
(...)
ROBERT NOVAK: Members of Congress who, during their spring recess, met
in Brussels with Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander, were
startled by his bellicosity. According to the lawmakers, Clark
suggested the best way to handle Russia's supply of oil to Yugoslavia
would be aerial bombardment of the pipeline that runs through Hungary.
He also proposed bombing Russian warships that enter the battle zone.
The American general was described by the members of the congressional
delegation as waging a personal vendetta against Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic. "I think the general might need a little sleep,"
commented one House member.- Balkan News from The Progressive Review
[http://prorev.com/balkan.htm%5d
"I am a kind of hard-nosed, dusty boots armor man who knows what it
takes to maneuver men," Clark said.
Clark is a longtime friend of Clinton and his current position has more
to do with his political flexibility than his war making prowess. He is
reportedly referred to as the " Supreme Being " by the more earnest
soldiers under his command.
From ... did anyone else notice that Clark was commanding Fort Hood,
Texas during the Waco incident? Most (if not all) of the illegal
military hardware and personnel used against the women and children at
Waco came from Fort Hood, Texas
"Known by those who've served with him as the "Ultimate Perfumed
Prince," he's far more comfortable in a drawing room discussing
political theories than hunkering down in the trenches where bullets
fly and soldiers die." - CLARK AND VIETNAM - DEFENDING AMERICA by David
H. Hackworth, April 20, 1999 [http://www.hackworth.com/20Apr99.html%5d
"He says the basic problem with US armed forces is that selfless grunts
willing to die for their country are being sold out by selfish
"perfumed princes" like Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf with the
blessing of "morally corrupt" political leaders from the president on
down. He says we can have a far more efficient fighting force and still
cut the military budget from US$300 billion to $150 to $200 billion, if
we consolidate our four military services into one, pull out of Korea
and Europe (which can defend themselves), and stop procuring expensive
high-tech weapons systems we don't need. Noise
[http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/netizenaudio/96/46/index3a.html%5d -
Hackworth talks about his new book Hazardous Duty, which he describes
as an attempt to "wake up America" about our urgent need to reform the
military.
Total length: 15 minutes, 17 seconds ... David Hackworth's home page
[http://www.hackworth.com/%5d
"The poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general
officer) corps"
What role did Nato's top commander have in the FBI's ill-fated raid on
the Branch Davidians compound outside Waco, Texas? Was Clark at Waco?
[http://www.counterpunch.org/waco.html%5d
Clark was born on 23 December 1944 and grew up in Little Rock,
Arkansas. He is married to the former Gertrude Kingston of Brooklyn,
New York. He and his wife have one son, Wesley, who lives in
California. *
Military Bio for GEN Wesley K. Clark USA
[http://www.eucom.mil/people/clark/bio.htm%5d "... General Wesley K.
Clark, U.S. Army, became the Commander in Chief of the United States
European Command on 10 July 1997....a 1966 graduate of the United
States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated
first in his class. He holds a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics
and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes
Scholar (August 1966-August 1968). He is a graduate of the National War
College, Command and General Staff College, Armor Officer Advanced and
Basic Courses, and Ranger and Airborne schools. General Clark was a
White House Fellow in 1975-1976 and served as a Special Assistant to
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He has also served
as an instructor and later Assistant Professor of Social Science at the
United States Military Academy. Clark grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas"
Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/%5d ... JUN 26 -
NOV 5, 2000 [http://wesleyclark.h1.ru/after2.htm%5d Gen. Clark: According
to The Times, former SACEUR Gen. Clark "has fired a bitter parting
shot" at his Pentagon bosses, suggesting that the United States is
being weakened by fear of battlefield casualties. At a ceremony marking
his retirement from the U.S. Army last Friday, Gen. Clark reportedly
unleashed a thinly veiled attack on Washington leaders for shying away
from bold action that could lead to loss of life. "What better to fight
for than what you believe in and value?", he asked at the military
ceremony at Fort Meyer, Washington. The time had come for the army
leadership to develop "a new mentality," he said, adding: "Give us a
mission and send us in." The newspaper notes Gen. Clark is now writing
his memoirs and suggests these are sure to bring him into dispute again
with the Pentagon and his former superiors. The July 3
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000703/3whisplead.htm%5d edition of
U.S. News & World Report notes Gen. Clark has obtained a job analyzing
technology firms for an investment bank in Arkansas and has several
corporate-board offers. But the weekly adds, "the worry in Washington
is whether Clark, said to have railed on Pentagon brass for
micromanaging the (Kosovo conflict), will publicly unload on them."
Interview with General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) on Security Issues -
August 8, 2000
[http://www.speakout.com/activism/interviews/clark_080900.asp%5d -- Gen.
Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army Ret., was the Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe from July 1997 to May 2000. Clark was in overall command of
NATO's military forces in Europe and commanded the alliance's military
response to the Kosovo crisis -- Operation Allied Force. He is now with
the Stephens Group Inc. in venture capital and a senior advisor with
the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
What is Clark doing now?
... joined Little Rock-based Stephens Group Inc. [111 Center Street,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (800) 643-9691, www.stephens.com] as a
corporate consultant to help develop emerging-technology companies. For
Immediate Release [http://www.stephens.com/about/clark_release.asp%5d
June 29, 2000 ... "U.S. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark recently retired
after 34 years of dedicated military service to his country. A native
of Little Rock, Ark., Clark and his wife now reside in Arlington, Va.
Their son, Wesley Jr., is a screenwriter in Los Angeles."
Also a senior adviser at CSIS [http://www.csis.org/%5d - (Center for
Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, N.W. Washington,
D.C. 20006 Fax 202-775-3153 ]
(...)
Among his military decorations are the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal (five awards), Distinguished Service Medal (two awards), Silver
Star, Legion of Merit (four awards), Bronze Star Medal (two awards),
Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards) and the Army
Commendation Medal (two awards), NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to Kosovo, NATO Medal for Service with NATO on
Operations in Relation to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
His Foreign awards include the Honorary Knight Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire (United Kingdom); Commander of
the Legion of Honor (France); Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany; Knight Grand Cross in the Order of
Orange-Nassau, with Swords (Netherlands); Grand Officer of the Order of
Merit of the Republic of Italy; Grand Cross of the Medal of Military
Merit (Portugal); The Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit
of Republic of Poland; Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg; Grand Medal of Military Merit (White Band)
(Spain); The Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (Belgium); Cross of
Merit of the Minister of Defense First Class (Czech Republic); Order of
Merit of the Hungarian Republic; Commander's Cross, The Silver Order of
Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia; Madarski Konnik Medal (Bulgaria);
Commemorative Medal of the Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic
First Class (Slovakia); First Class Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke
Gediminas (Lithuania); Order of the Cross of the Eagle (Estonia); The
Skandeberg Medal (Albania); Order of Merit of Morocco; Order of Merit
of Argentina; The Grade of Prince Butmir w/Ribbon and Star (Croatia)
and the Military Service Cross of Canada.