Nasz najnowszy zbawca - Wesley Clark

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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
    • Gość: dEMOCRACYnOW Re: Robert Fisk o generale Clarku. IP: *.NYCMNY83.covad.net 25.09.03, 16:14
      Democracy Now
      Thursday, September 18, 2003.



      Robert Fisk on Wesley Clark & Iraq:What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter
      Every Night of Iraqi People

      AS the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq approaches 300, we go to Baghdad to
      hear from London Independent reporter Robert Fisk on the virtually unreported
      number of Iraqis killed in feuds, looting, revenge killings and raids by U.S.
      troops.

      The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq stands close to 300. While figures of
      U.S. troops killed or wounded in Iraq are widely disclosed, the number of
      Iraqis killed or wounded are unknown.

      In an article last Sunday, Robert Fisk of the London Independent writes:

      In Iraq there are thousands of incidents of violence that never get reported;
      attacks on Americans that cost civilian lives are not even recorded by the
      occupation authority press officers unless they involve loss of life
      among "coalition forces". Go to the mortuaries of Iraq's cities and it's clear
      that a slaughter occurs each night. Occupation powers insist that journalists
      obtain clearance to visit hospitals - it can take a week to get the right
      papers, if at all, so goodbye to statistics - but the figures coming from
      senior doctors tell their own story.
      In Baghdad, up to 70 corpses - of Iraqis killed by gunfire - are brought to the
      mortuaries each day. In Najaf, for example, the cemetery authorities record the
      arrival of the bodies of up to 20 victims of violence a day. Some of the dead
      were killed in family feuds, in looting, or revenge killings. Others have been
      gunned down by US troops at checkpoints or in the increasingly vicious "raids"
      carried out by American forces in the suburbs of Baghdad and the Sunni cities
      to the north.

      Fisk continues:

      "If you count the Najaf dead as typical of just two or three other major
      cities, and if you add on the daily Baghdad death toll and multiply by seven,
      almost 1,000 Iraqi civilians are being killed every week - and that may well be
      a conservative figure."
      Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. Speaking
      from Baghdad.



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      TRANSCRIPT
      AMY GOODMAN: Well, John Hlinko, we have just reached Robert Fisk in Baghdad. We
      want to thank you for being with us, cofounder of the DraftWesleyClark.com
      campaign. Zoltan Grossman, thanks for being with us from the University of
      Wisconsin.

      We're going not to the break right now, which we usually do, but because we
      have Robert Fisk on his satellite phone at this moment we want to go directly
      to him.

      Robert Fisk, we'll get your comment at the beginning, hearing that Wesley Clark
      is now running for president as the antiwar warrior. Then we'd like to get your
      observations of what's happening right now on the ground in Iraq.

      ROBERT FISK: I have to say first of all about General Clark, that I was on the
      ground in Serbia in Kosovo when he ran the war there. He didn't seem to be very
      antiwar at the time. I had as one of my tasks to go out over and over again to
      look at the civilian casualties of that have war.

      At one point NATO bombed the hospital in which Yugoslav soldiers, against the
      rules of war, were hiding along with the patients and almost all the patients
      were killed.

      This was the war, remember, where the first attack was made on a radio station,
      the Serb Radio and Television building. Since then we've had attacks twice on
      the Al Jazeera television station. First of all in Afghanistan in 2001, then
      killing their chief correspondent, and again in Baghdad, this year.
      This was a general who I remember bombed series of bridges, in one of which an
      aircraft bombed the train and after, he'd seen the train and had come to a
      stop, the pilot bombed the bridge again.

      I saw one occasion when a plane came in, bombed a bridge over a river in Serbia
      proper, as we like to call it, and after about 12 minutes when rescuers
      arrived, a bridge too narrow even for tanks, bombed the rescuers.

      I remember General Clark telling us that more than 100 Yugoslav tanks had been
      destroyed in the weeks of that war. And when the war came to an end, we
      discovered number of Yugoslav tanks destroyed were eleven. 100 indeed!

      So this was not a man, frankly whom, if I were an American, would vote for, but
      not being an American, I don't have to.

      AMY GOODMAN: Robert Fisk speaking to us in Iraq. And then you have the time
      that the British general, Michael Jackson, Wesley Clark had told him to get his
      British troops to the airport before the Russians got there, so it wouldn't be
      perceived that the Russians were liberating and General Michael Jackson
      responded to him, 'I'm not going to start World War III'.

      ROBERT FISK: Yes. Jackson did indeed say that. One member of Jackson's staff
      confirmed to me that the quote is true. I think the words
      • Gość: readallaboutit Re: Lista wrogow w/g generala Clarka IP: *.NYCMNY83.covad.net 25.09.03, 16:21


        7 Muslim Countries Were On U.S. War List: Wesley Clark


        "What a mistake! I reflected…as though the terrorism were simply coming from
        these states," Clark wrote

        WASHINGTON, September 22 - U.S. Presidential hopeful Wesley Clark, the former
        general who led NATO forces during the Kosovo campaign, revealed on Monday,
        September 22, that the Bush administration had set-up a five-year plan to
        invade seven Muslim countries after the 9/11 attacks, beginning with Iraq, then
        Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and finally Sudan.

        In his book "The Clark Critique" excerpts of which were published by this
        week's Newsweek edition, the four-star retired general wrote that following the
        September attacks, the U.S. administration became preoccupied with the idea
        of "state sponsorship" and "draining the swamp" of terrorism.

        "In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, many in the Bush
        administration seemed most focused on a prospective move against Iraq. This was
        the old idea of state sponsorship-even though there was no evidence of Iraqi
        sponsorship of 9/11 whatsoever," the anti-Iraqi war Democrat said.

        "But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign
        plan and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then
        Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan."

        The Vietnam veteran said that Washington saw that it would be effective to
        attack a state than "to chase after individuals, nebulous organizations, and
        shadowy associations."

        "…For this was not something I wanted to hear. And it was not something I
        wanted to see moving forward, either," he said.

        'What A Mistake!'

        The decorated general criticized the Bush administration for its narrow-
        mindedness in combating terrorism and neglecting the main swamp of terrorism.

        "What a mistake! I reflected…as though the terrorism were simply coming from
        these states," Clark wrote.

        He also questioned the so-called threats posed by the Iran-backed Hizbullah and
        the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, which, he said, is aided and
        supported by Syria, concluding that "neither Hizbullah nor Hamas were targeting
        Americans."

        Clark blamed as the prime source for terrorism the "repressive policies,
        poverty, corruption and radical ideology" of U.S. allies in the region, naming
        them explicitly as Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

        "And what about the real sources of terrorists-U.S. allies in the region like
        Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia? Wasn’t it the repressive policies of the
        first, and the corruption and poverty of the second, that were generating many
        of the angry young men who became terrorists?" He asked.

        "And what of the radical ideology and direct funding spewing from Saudi Arabia?

        "The way to beat terrorists was to take away their popular support. Target
        their leaders individually, demonstrate their powerlessness, roll up the
        organizations from the bottom," he added.

        U.N. Support

        The former NATO commander further disapproved of the U.S. unilateral action in
        the so-called global war on terror, noting that it should put greater effort
        into broader preventive measures by seeking U.N. and NATO support.

        "And if we wanted to go after states supporting terrorism, why not first go to
        the United Nations, present the evidence against Al Qaeda, set up a tribunal
        for prosecuting international terrorism?

        "What about our NATO allies, whose cities were being used as staging bases and
        planning headquarters? He wondered.

        In paying no heed to the international law, he concluded, the United States
        would "dissipate the huge outpouring of goodwill and sympathy it had received
        in September 2001 by going it largely alone."

        Who Is Clark?

        Like former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Wesley Clark grew up in Arkansas and
        went on to become a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, where he took a
        Master's Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

        But he had set his heart on a military career. He graduated top of his class at
        the West Point military academy, and won a Purple Heart in Vietnam after his
        infantry unit came under fire.

        He worked his way up to the top of the chain of command, and led NATO forces in
        the alliance's first-ever war, in Kosovo in 1999.

        Since leaving the military in May 2000, Wesley Clark has set up a strategy
        consultancy and joined an investment bank based in his home town.

        On September 17, Clark announced his decision to seek the Democratic nomination
        to run against George W. Bush before supporters in his hometown of Little Rock,
        Arkansas.

        Just days after entering the presidential race, Clark has jumped to head of the
        class, according to a new poll that puts him ahead of the nine other Democratic
        contenders and within a few points of Bush.

        The national survey by Newsweek shows Clark winning the support of 14 percent
        of registered Democrats, outpolling former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, who
        came in second with 12 percent.

        Clark has received so far $750,000 in donations to his campaign for the U.S.
        presidency in the first five days since he entered the race.


    • Gość: Globaresearch Re:jak clark pomaga Sorosowi i nawzajem IP: *.NYCMNY83.covad.net 25.09.03, 21:31
      Clark points out that “since the fall of Milosevic, Serbia, under the auspices
      of Soros- backed “reformers”, has become less, not more, free. The recently
      lifted state of emergency saw more than 4,000 people arrested, many of them
      without charge, political parties threatened with bans, and critical newspapers
      closed down” This has been so blatant that it was condemned by the UN
      Commission on Human Rights and the British Helsinki Group

      “Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise ‘open’. In
      Kosovo, for example, he has invested $50 million in an attempt to gain control
      of the Trepca mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead
      and other minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5 billion. He thus
      copied a pattern he has deployed to great effect over the whole of eastern
      Europe of advocating ‘shocking therapy’ and ‘economic reform’, then swooping in
      with his associate to buy valuable state assets at knock-down prices,”
      according to Clark.*

      In Hungary, Soros is the benefactor of the Free Democrats party “which has
      pursued the classic Soros agenda of privatization and economic liberalization---
      leading to a widening gap between rich and poor,” says Clark.

      “The Soros strategy for extending Pax Americana differs from the Bush model,
      particularly in its subtlety. But it is just as ambitious and just as deadly,”
      Clark concludes.

      Of course, in the case of Yugoslavia, ultimately the Soros approach was not
      enough so the overwhelming might of the U.S. military was brought into play.*



    • Gość: Milos Re: Los Jugoslawi IP: *.NYCMNY83.covad.net 26.09.03, 15:08
      The Plight of Yugoslavia.
      On the Day a Tragic Era Started
      by Milos Markovic,
      www.globalresearch.ca 8 April 2003
      The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAR304A.html


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      I am writing these lines at the dawn of 24 March 2003, on the very day when the
      NATO, four years ago, started the destruction of my country, which in the
      meantime has lost even its name. I ask my profession for forgiveness if in this
      text emotions, even traumas, should give it more a character of a confession
      than a critical and analytical review. However, even though various feelings
      overwhelm me, I will not do injustice to facts or to logic resulting from these
      facts. It is not only a memory of commemorative character, but another kind of
      nightmare, an everlasting trauma, pain, insufferable grief. And while I watch
      the destruction of Baghdad by the Americans on the screen, it seems to me that
      each missile hits Belgrade, Serbia, destroying the bridges over the Danube, the
      Ibar, the Morava, striking schools, hospitals, churches.

      As if once again I was suffocating from the smoke in the demolished basement of
      the devastated building of the Television of Serbia, as if I heard the screams
      of my colleagues that night and saw their bewildered eyes. The pictures of
      terror, chaos, catastrophe, death come alive. Between the floors of the
      destroyed building the body of a helpless man hangs upside down, quivering,
      while doctors on firemen's ladders try to save his life. As if now, in my
      mind's eye, I saw parts of the bodies of the killed on the roof of St. Marco's
      church. As if I saw before me the images of the victims. I hear the cries for
      help, weeping, sobbing, screams. It seems to me that I am committing a sin when
      trying to push back such memories and feelings, when trying to calmly,
      collectedly and very rationally make an inventory of those tragic things. It
      seems to me that it would also be a kind of indifference no one is entitled to.
      I cannot agree to that, no matter how much the present government insist on
      ignoring this said anniversary.

      On 24 March, not a single newspaper even mentioned on the front page that
      event, that is tragic not only for this country and its people, but also a
      tragic proclamation that the planet and the human civilization will be governed
      by the most brutal power, the one serving American interests. And all in the
      guise of human rights, freedom, democracy, humanness. What absurdity, what
      hypocrisy, what cynicism, what lies! And the Serbs as victims of the NATO
      bombing, as to date the greatest victims of American hegemony policy, they are
      forced to forget their tragedy! And not only forget it, but forgive and justify
      it as well! They can still, quite conventionally, almost discreetly and rather
      superficially mention it in the last minutes of news programs and back pages of
      the newspapers. Almost all the media in Serbia devoted more attention and time
      and space to the American Academy Awards, to winning Oscars, than to the
      anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombing of our country! What is killed
      in that manner and how the bombing of this people is continued by other means -
      that is hopefully clear to every man capable of though at the level of an
      average teenager!

      How many thousands of victims, how many thousands of missiles, how many
      thousands of kilos of explosive, how many cluster bombs, how many depleted
      uranium bombs, were used on Serbia? How many tens of bridges were destroyed,
      how many thousands of people are there with post-traumatic consequences? How
      many deformed children will be born, not only in Serbia, but in the whole of
      Europe as well? When the NATO protectors of Albanian terrorism came to Kosovo
      and Metohija, almost all of the Serbs were exiled, tens of thousands of their
      homes were burned down, hundreds of their churches and monasteries were
      destroyed. During almost four years of absolute domination of the NATO forces
      in Kosovo and Metohija, the alleged guarantor of the safety for the return to
      their homes, not even one percent of the exiled Serbs could go back to their
      homes! With all those wonders, all those terrible crimes in accordance with the
      American script, only one man was charged and sentenced! Only one!

      The law of Hamurabi, ancient Roman laws, all the codes and legal systems of all
      countries must feel humiliation before this fact. So many killed, so many
      crimes of all kinds - and only one man sentenced!? How will the Minister of
      Justice in Serbian government find a logical, even in a most formal semblance
      of logic, answer that makes even a ghost of justice? This legal absurd, this
      corruption of law can take its place in any anthology of meaninglessness and
      humiliation of law. How is it possible - so many crimes, so many victims, and
      only one man guilty?

      Let us see who that wonder man is, what his crime is, and what justifies the
      verdict and the sentence of the District Court in Belgrade.

      The only one guilty for all the NATO crimes is Dragoljub Milanovic. He was a
      general manager of the Radio Television of Serbia. He held the same position at
      the time of the NATO bombing of the FR Yugoslavia. All the 78 days of
      aggression against our country he stayed in the RTS building until after
      midnight.

      In the night between 22 and 23 April 1999 I was the chief editor on duty in the
      News Department of the RTS. That fact gives me not only the right, but also the
      duty of the highest moral order to say what happened and how it happened. One
      newspaper story is too short for such a delicate story, for such a monstrous
      crime, for such a big tragedy. I am saving all this for the book I am writing,
      and which will hopefully explain through arguments what happened in the night
      the television building was bombed, what had happened before, and what was to
      happen after.

      In the night when the building was hit, manager Milanovic asked me, as the
      chief editor on duty, and in connection with the statement from Moscow
      regarding the talks Milosevic - Chernomyrdin, which were on the previous day
      (22 April 1999) in Belgrade. It was about 1 o'clock after midnight, or a couple
      of minutes to 1. Bearing in mind that the translation of the text was rather
      confusing, I saw right away that this important news would not be ready for the
      news program at 1 o'clock. After checking the translation and some stylistic
      interventions, I went out of Mr. Milanovic's office. The time was about ten
      minutes past one. Milanovic stayed in his office with a man I did not know. The
      said news I prepared for the news program at 2 o'clock. My last editor's action
      of that tragic night was to advise the news presenter Slobodan Kovacevic to
      read the said statement very clearly, since there were some linguistic
      adjustments in the translation.

      Some time before 2 o'clock after midnight I was sitting in the office of the
      Culture Department, where I had spent twenty-five years as a journalist. There
      were Ljuba Vucicevic, in charge that night for the correspondents' network, my
      colleague from the culture department, Dragan Srdanovic, and the secretary,
      Maja Andjelkovic. At 5 or 6 minutes after 2 - it struck! The building shook, we
      fell. There are moments in a great drama that the rational powers in man
      withdraw, and some miraculous instinct for self-preservation takes lead. I was
      trying to keep calm, collected, aware. I wanted to extend it to the others as
      well. I was afraid that panic would overwhelm me, the panic there were so many
      reasons for. All the stumbling, falling, running into the walls of the building
      basement, did not cause any pain, since, it seems to me, the organism in some
      wonderful way - was auto-anesthetized! Many things in those terrible events,
      not even f
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