General Wesley Clark ≡ OilEmpire.us 1 page PDFs podcasts new Mideast map 9/11 & NSA war homeland media elections movies in memoriam site under redesign - Nov. 2023 General Wesley Clark war crimes and drug money a Republican pretending to be a Democrat "he has the perfect resume to continue the job that the Bush gang began, and then botched." - Beyond Bush II, by Michael Ruppert www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles8/DVNS_Wesley-Clark.htm The Awful Truth About Wesley Clark http://prorev.com/clark.htm The Progressive Review - Wesley Clark archives Belgrade, 1999 General Wesley Clark's work www.emperors-clothes.com/1/rem.htm www.counterpunch.org/madsen09182003.html 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." One of Soros' most influential institutions is the International Crisis Group, founded in 1986. ICG is headed by individuals from the very center of political and corporate power. Its board includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, Morton Abramowitz, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe; and Richard Allen, former U.S. National Security Adviser, Allen is noteworthy for quitting Nixon's National Security Council out of disgust with the liberal tendencies of Henry Kissinger; recruiting Oliver North to Reagan's National Security Council, and negotiating missiles for hostages in the Iran-Contra scandal. For these individuals, "containing conflict" boils down to U.S. control over the people and resources of the world.' George Soros: Imperial Wizard/Double Agent by Heather Cottin December 9, 2003 www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/SorosImperialWizardDoubleAgentByHeatherCottin.htm www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/GeorgeSzamuelyOnSorosWorld.htm As the following 8/22/00 New York Press article by George Szamuely indicates, General Wesley Clark has apparently also sat on Billionaire Global Speculator George Soros's International Crisis Group think-tank in recent years — Bob Feldman Soros' World by George Szamuely New York Press 8/22/00 Last week 900 NATO troops, under UN auspices, stormed into a smelting factory at Zvecan in Kosovo and closed the place down. According to the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) chief, Bernard Kouchner, pollution from the plant - part of the vast Trepca mining complex that produces gold, silver, lead, zinc and cadmium - was raising lead levels in the environment to 200 times World Health Organization norms. "I would be a debauched person if I let this threat to the health of children and pregnant women continue operating any longer," he announced. One wonders if the Frenchman managed to keep a straight face as he said this. Kouchner is running the province on behalf of a NATO that littered the place with cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells, that presided over the expulsion of some 200,000 Serbs, that sent bridges crashing into the Danube, that happily released clouds of toxic fumes from bombed-out petrochemical factories into the atmosphere. The residents of this town - particularly the women - showed their usual ingratitude to their benefactors by throwing stones at them. Trepca is the leading employer of Serbs in Kosovo and is Yugoslavia's chief exporter. The protesters got the Los Angeles treatment: tear gas and rubber bullets. The Yugoslav government disputes Kouchner's claims. Yugoslavia's record for telling the truth is considerably better than NATO's. Seizure of Zvecan gives UNMIK control of the Trepca mines. Already an agreement has been signed with a group of major mining companies, ITT Kosovo Consortium, to begin rehabilitation of the complex. Some $16 million is forthcoming from the EU, the United States, France, Italy, Holland and Sweden. UNMIK, needless to say, does not have the right to take over property that belongs to others. The agency was set up by UN Security Council Resolution 1244; strangely enough, it remained silent on the matter of stealing. However, as is the way with NATO, Kouchner simply issued a decree last year: " UNMIK shall administer movable or immovable property, including monies, bank accounts, and other property of, or registered in the name of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or the Republic of Serbia or any of its organs, which is in the territory of Kosovo." Interestingly enough, the seizure of Trepca had been urged on him as long ago as last November by the International Crisis Group (ICG). The ICG, invariably described in the media as an "independent" and "private" think tank, is largely financed and run by the billionaire financier George Soros. Its "independence" can be gauged by the fact that on its board sits Louise Arbour, former chief prosecutor at that travesty of justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; as well as Wesley Clark, loony chief bomber from last year. Financial support also comes from the governments of France, the UK and the U.S. The ICG is a fascinating case study of the way human rights organizations, governments and international corporations work hand in glove these days. " Independent" figures like Soros identify a "crisis" demanding urgent government attention. Governments act on them and then parcel out the lucrative contracts to Soros and his pals. The Trepca report begins with the usual tendentious boilerplate: "The future of Trepca cuts to the heart of the Kosovars' identity. Its great mineral wealth is the basis of the economy of Kosovo, but the complex is badly run-down as a result of under-investment and over-exploitation by governments in Belgrade. Trepca.is Kosovo's Berlin Wall. It has long stood for Kosovar Albanians as the symbol of Serbian oppression and of their own resistance." Therefore, "UNMIK.should implement a rapid and categorical takeover of Trepca complex, including the immediate, total shutdown of the environmentally hazardous facilities at Zvecan." There is no question of turning the mines over to the Kosovar Albanians. And forget about there being lots of jobs for the locals. Trepca is to be rehabilitated and then divided up among foreign investors. The report notes, with pleasure, that the KLA appears to be thoroughly up-to-date on the issue of turning Kosovo over to international financiers. George Soros has littered the world with innumerable think tanks and foundations, all dedicated to promoting his nebulous notions of the "open society." Cut away the pompous verbiage and what his pronouncements amount to is that enlightened businessmen like himself and enlightened governments with the appropriate globalist outlook should help each other out. To hell with national sovereignty. It is an outlook that has been happily in conformity with that of the Clinton administration. And it has gone out of its way to be very helpful to Soros. Last month, Soros Private Funds Management announced that it will invest $50 million of its own equity in the Balkans. The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. will provide a loan guarantee for another $100 million of investments. The Soros investment was chosen over 16 other proposals. Last December the Clinton administration ordered the U.S. Export-Import Bank to delay approval of $500 million in credit guarantees to a Russian company, Tyumen Oil, following complaints by Western investors, including Soros, that they had been swindled. The U.S. Export-Import Bank argued that the loan met all its financial criteria. After talking to Soros, however, it was announced that it was not in the "national interest" to go ahead with the loan "for the time being." Now comes the seizure of Trepca. There is little mystery as to what it is our society is "open" to. This page was last updated on 9.25.03 Wesley Clark: The Guy Who Almost Started World War III by Stella Jatras Antiwar.com, 23 August 2003 Oct 28, 8:06 PM EST Clark Rips Bush for 9-11 Intel Failures By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press Writer Clark praised Bush and his administration for their handling of these foreign policy issues in 2001 and 2002. If elected, Clark said he would repair relations with other nations and use force as a last resort. He said he would be willing to launch a pre-emptive strike against threats to the United States, and promised to seek a legal definition of terrorism from the United Nations to bring offenders to justice under international law. Copyright 2003 Associated Press. http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLARK_TERRORISM?SITE=CODEN&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT www.brasscheck.com/yugoslavia/clarkatwaco.html June 14, 1999 *** Special Brasscheck Report *** - Did the tactics of NATO's commander Wesley Clark in the war against Yugoslavia seem oddly familiar? There's a good reason for that - From Waco To Belgrade: Wesley K. Clark and America's "Army of the Future" www.counterpunch.org/waco.html Was Clark at Waco? www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/politics/5310533.htm Former NATO Commander Wesley Clark has left his job at the Arkansas investment banking firm of Stephens Inc., but any possible political campaign may have to wait. Clark is expected to be a full-time military analyst for CNN if there is a U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The retired general, is thinking about a run for president, has been working as a military analyst for CNN and would probably be sent to Kuwait for Persian Gulf coverage, said CNN spokeswoman Ali Zelenko. Frank Thomas, a spokesman for Stephens, said Clark has worked for Stephens since summer 2000. He was managing director of a division of the bank, working with military clients. Some Democrats have been encouraging the 58-year-old Clark to make a decision soon on a presidential candidacy. Clark has said he has no timetable for a campaign. He eventually plans to open his own business services firm in Little Rock. note: Stephens is the notorious investment firm owned by Jackson Stephens, one of the main financial powers behind Bill Clinton. For more about Stephens, read "Barry and the Boys" by Daniel Hopsicker (about drug smuggler / CIA agent Barry Seal who brought in countless plane loads of drugs to help fund the Contra war for then Vice President George Bush) Stephens also financed the "Waste Technologies, Inc." hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio (and attorney Hillary Rodham Clinton helped file paperwork for it). In 1992, Clinton and Gore promised that this facility - built in the Ohio River floodplain, next to an elementary school, would not be opened if they won the election. It started up two months after they were sworn in. For more on this broken promise, see www.greenpeaceusa.org/wti/ WESLEY CLARK, THE PERFUMED PRINCE JOHN CHUCKMAN YELLOW TIMES - The Perfumed Prince declared himself a Democrat. Many Americans may not recognize the nickname bestowed upon Wesley Clark by British colleagues as he strutted around Serbia with his set of platinum-plated general's stars carefully repositioned each day to a freshly-starched and ironed camouflage cap, wafting a thick vapor trail of cologne. His lack of judgment demonstrated in Serbia -- including an order to clear out Russian forces that British general Sir Michael Jackson had to ignore for fear of starting World War III -- should be enough to utterly disqualify him as a candidate for President. But this is America, land of opportunity. The former general scents, through the mists of his musky cologne, an opportunity for service. Hell, we're at war, and any real general is better than a former male cheerleader from Andover who cross-dresses as a combat pilot. Dreams of being the hero on a white horse beckon. A fatal attraction in the American people to used-up generals is how the country managed to elect some of its worst presidents - Grant, Jackson, and Garfield, for example. http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1559 NY POST PAGE SIX - The last thing the Clintons want is for a Democrat from Arkansas to defeat Bush next year," says our spy about the ex-general who is expected to announce his candidacy next month. . . Our source adds, "The Clinton master plan is for a Hillary candidacy in 2008 and they will subtly sabotage the Democratic candidate in 2004.That's why they insist on keeping their personal operative, Terry McAuliffe, in charge of the Democratic committee." http://www.nypost.com/gossip/40011.htm THE END OF LIBERALISM WASHINGTON MONTHLY RUNS PRO-CLARK PIECE http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0309.sullivan.html [Joining the military fetishists at the American Prospect is the Washington Monthly. Sad to report, however, that once you get past the fact that Clark's a four star general, there isn't all that much more to say on his behalf] WESLEY CLARK ARCHIVES PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, JULY 1999 - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Secret Life Of Bill Clinton writes, "The Branch Davidian siege was clearly on Foster's mind. He was 'drafting a letter involving Waco' on the day of this death, surely a point of some significance. He kept a Waco file in the locked cabinet that was off limits to everybody, including his secretary. His widow mentions Waco twice in her statement to the FBI: 'Toward the end of his life, Foster had no sense of joy or elation at work. The Branch Davidian incident near Waco, Texas, was also causing him a great deal of stress. Lisa Foster believes that he was horrified when the Branch Davidian complex burned. Foster believed that everything was his fault.'" Evans-Pritchard makes no claim that Waco was a cause of Foster's death. After discussing other anomalies, such as his ties to the National Security Agency, the investigative reporter notes, "The point is that Foster was involved in activities that belie the carefully drawn portrait of a bemused country lawyer, and that have clearly been obscured on purpose." These comments are worth reviving because of Counterpunch's revelation that two key Army officers were involved in the Justice Department planning for Waco and that Clinton had abrogated an longtime American principle of not using the military in domestic law enforcement. We now also know that NATO chief Wesley Clark, then Texas-based, at the very least approved the seconding of logistical support from his command. We know that important records in Foster's possession were removed. And we know … truncated (198,795 more characters in archive)