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Our Newest Savior - Wesley Clark
by William Blum
www.globalresearch.ca 25 September 2003
The URL of this article is: globalresearch.ca/articles/309A.html
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In case anyone is still embracing any illusions that General Wesley Clark is
likely the hero who can bring closer to fruition our belief and hope that
Another World Is Possible, here are a few more items about this charming man.
At the start of the 78-day NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, which he oversaw
as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Clark declared: "We are going to
systematically and progressively attack, disrupt, degrade, devastate and
ultimately destroy these forces and their facilities and support unless
President Milosevic complies with the demands of the international
community." (Los Angeles Times, 26 March 1999)
Clark was among 68 leaders charged with war crimes by a group of
international-law professionals from Canada, the United Kingdom, Greece, and
the American Association of Jurists. The group filed its well-documented
complaints with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
in The Hague, Netherlands, charging leaders of NATO countries and officials
of NATO itself with crimes similar to those for which the Tribunal had issued
indictments shortly before against Serbian leaders. Amongst the charges filed
were: "grave violations of international humanitarian law", including "wilful
killing,wilfully causing great suffering and serious injury to body and
health, employment of poisonous weapons and other weapons to cause
unnecessary suffering, wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages,
unlawful attacks on civilian objects, devastation not necessitated by
military objectives, attacks on undefended buildings and dwellings,
destruction and wilful damage done to institutions dedicated to religion,
charity and education, the arts and sciences." At one point in the bombing
campaign it was reported that "[Clark] would rise out of his seat and slap
the table. 'I've got to get the maximum violence out of this campaign