A Visit to the Future
In A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country, Gen. Wesley Clark , remembers two visits to the Pentagon: the first one, two weeks after 9/11, yielded a bit of gossip from one of his fellow generals, who told him that the invasion of Iraq had already “basically” been decided on. The second visit, six weeks later, revealed more shocking news from the same source. Clark asked if the Iraq invasion plan was still on, and the answer he got was chilling:
“‘Oh, it’s worse than that,’ he said, holding up a memo on his desk. ‘Here’s the paper from the Office of the Secretary of Defense [then Donald Rumsfeld] outlining the strategy. We’re going to take out seven countries in five years.’ And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran.”
Clark doesn’t name the other four countries: any guesses?
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He went down the list for Charles Goyette last week:
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/01/wesley-clark/
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It would have to be the countries thought evil by the Neo-Cons:
Jordan
Lebanon
North Korea
Vatican City
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they were Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, and Sudan.
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Um, did Clark breathe a word of this to anyone, or try to alert anyone about this--oh say SEVEN YEARS AGO when he first found this out???? I don’t seem to recall him making a particularly big point of this tidbit of info back when he was running for prez in ‘04. Or did he try to tell anyone in the corporate-state media, and he was just ignored and denied a forum?
It’s really great that all these elite insiders reveal crucial information years after anyone could have done something about anything.
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Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Sudan doesn’t seem an obvious candidate to me, because of the Chinese oil investments there (and the Security Council vote). And Somalia? Okay Bush sr. started that, but Clinton messed up big time by not coming home earlier.
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here is wesley clarke being interviewd by amy goodman (democracy now).he mentions the countries here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE
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Well, about a month ago, there was a ‘border incident’ with Syria complaining about Israeli planes. Israel said they don’t comment on nonsense. Then they said it was a mistake. Then they said they went in. Then they said they bombed a ‘nuclear facility’.
Isn’t this an act of war?
Are they softening up Syria for more?
Where’s the outrage?
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Where’s the outrage?
Israel’s impeccable.
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there is nothing to be afeared about.listen to what ralph nader says here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA
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The U.S.?
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What happened to Afghanistan? Two weeks after 9/11 we
hadn’t started that war yet. How is Afghanistan not
included?
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I heard Clark relate this same story several years ago. I can’t give a date or citation but it’s not new. Nobody picked up on it.
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7 countries in 5 years, eh? Looks like we got bogged down in Iraq, and won’t be making it any further down the list.
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We should not dismiss the possibility that this is disnimformation meant to confound the “enemy”. The Seven Country List reminds me of Nixon’s classic “Mad-Man Theory”. (See wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory)
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spastic bladder
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wery well, guys
absintheoil
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