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Broadcast on FORA TV on October 3, 2007, General Wesley Clark said America underwent a "policy coup" post-9/11. Hard-liners co-opted power with no public debate or acknowledgement.
Ten days after 9/11, he visited Defense Secretary Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. "No one will tell us where or when to bomb", he said. Military commanders explained Iraq would be attacked.
"I walked out of there pretty upset," said Clark. On a second visit, he was told plans were to "destroy the governments in seven countries." Besides Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran would be attacked.
Today add Pakistan, Yemen, Uganda, and dozens of other countries invaded by US Special Forces death squads. As a result, no one anywhere is safe, including US citizens Obama calls fair game if accused of terrorism or complicity to commit it, with or without evidence.
Hardline officials "took control of the policy of the United States." In 1991, as a one-star general, Clark visited Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon after Operation Desert Storm.
He lamented that "we should have gotten rid of Saddam Hussein....But one thing we did learn," he added. "We can use our military anywhere in the Middle East and the Soviets won't stop us.""And we've got about five or 10 years to clean out those old Soviet client regimes." Among others, he named Syria, Iran, and Iraq. Doing it he said was essential "before the next great superpower comes along to challenge us."
Clark was stunned that top Pentagon officials wanted America's military to "start (unprovoked) wars.". Extremist policy makers then and post-9/11 "wanted to destabilize the Middle East, turn it upside down, (remaking) it under (US) control."
Did Congress debate it? Did presidents explain it? Did America's media report it? "Was there a full-fledged (public discussion) on it? Absolutely not, and there still isn't."
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