I got this in an email from a person I respect. I wondered what DUers would think about it:
We have to stop this lie that Wesley Clark is anything but an ultra-elite
Council on Foreign Relations-member drug trafficking global government
war mongerer right out of the Bill Clinton camp. His administration would
not be "better" than the Bushies, but differently-faced while advancing a
nearly identical big-picture agenda and working for the interests of the
same globally-powerful forces.
Here is journalist Michael Ruppert on Wesley Clark, from Ruppert's piece
"Beyond Bush Part 2"
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102003_beyond_bush_2.html
~adam
Wesley Clark
Wesley Clark has been pounced upon with adoration by progressives and
Democrats as though he were a God of reason and salvation. This
late-comer entered the race in September at the top of the polls. In fact, he
is a reincarnation of the most corrupt and violent aspects of William
Jefferson Clinton. I have great respect for author and filmmaker Michael
Moore, but when I saw him endorse Wesley Clark, I nearly choked. Let's
refresh everyone's memory by looking at the retired NATO Commander's
history. It shows us is that he has the perfect résumé to continue the job
that the Bush gang began, and then botched.
Clark first hit my radar screen way back in 1993, after it was learned that
US Army troops had been dispatched to the Branch Davidian compound
in Waco Texas. At the time, Clark was the commander of the 1st Cavalry
Division at Ft. Hood Texas. As the division commander, Clark was the one
to authorize the release of armored units and - as later disclosed by
filmmaker Michael McNulty - very likely also in command of Delta Force
personnel who operated on his turf, and engaged in a brutal massacre of
unarmed civilians trying to flee the burning compound. Accordingto a
well-documented September 2003 story at www.frontpagemagazine.com
Clark's second in command, Pete Schoomaker, was one of two military
officers to meet with Janet Reno in preparing the plans for the final
assault. That made him Clark's representative.
This is not a good progressive credential.
Clark's real notoriety came in 1999 when, as NATO Commander under
Bill Clinton, he led another US military invasion, which the UN also
refused to sanction, into Bosnia and Kosovo. Clark's aggressive
command nearly resulted in a military confrontation with a Russian
armored column. As it turns out, the reasons for that invasion were as
fabricated as were the reasons for Bush's invasion of Iraq. For weeks, the
American people were bombarded by warnings about mass graves
containing tens of thousands of bodies. In the April 1999 issue of FTW, I
wrote about Kosovo and our allies, the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA:
Has everyone forgotten that the U.S. government referred to the KLA, just a
year ago, as terrorists? Has everyone forgotten, in the current "wag the
dog" propaganda assault, that the Serbs, going back to World War II have
been U.S. allies - that they are Christians and that they are not receiving
military training from countries which sponsor Islamic terror? We hear
reports of mass graves. We hear reports of rape and atrocities. Have we
yet seen any of the victims?
Kosovo is vastly different from the Contra war or from Afghanistan and
Pakistan. Why? Because U.S. air power is overwhelmingly committed at
the outset. Because the "Mighty Wurlitzer" of American media is feeding
on the hapless plight of helpless victims on a scale akin to Wm.
Randolph Hearst's coverage of the sinking of the Maine in Havana
Harbor…
The only difference now is that the quick and cheap capital and funding
mechanism of the drug trade has replaced the much more time
consuming process of investment and extraction of war costs from a
producing economy. The fact is that the entire world economy and political
decision making machinery is now hooked on drugs. To me, that is a
sure sign that the economic models operating at the end of the 20th
century are about as adaptable as the dinosaurs were when the asteroid
hit.
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and there were no
mass graves holding tens of thousands of bodies ever found in Kosovo.
Yet, as we documented in 1999 using reports from Jane's Intelligence
Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor, in the process of conducting
that war Clark made safe the KLA's control over 70% of the heroin
reaching Western Europe.
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/regional/KLA1.html>
Another parallel to the post-9/11 world is that, under US rule, Afghanistan
has again become the number-one producer of opium in the world,
estimated at 75% of world supply, all under CIA control. Afghanistan is the
source of the heroin that is being smuggled through the Balkans into
Western Europe (and all over the world) to this day. And, Osama bin
Laden had Al Qaeda personnel training the KLA with US permission.
As Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa reported in
June 2002 in his publication Global Outlook:
The U.S. Congress has documented in detail, the links of Al Qaeda to
agencies of the U.S. government during the civil war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as in Kosovo.3 More recently in Macedonia,
barely a few months before September 11, U.S. military advisers were
mingling with Mujahideen mercenaries financed by Al Qaeda. Both
groups were fighting under the auspices of the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA), within the same terrorist paramilitary formation.4
It is absurd to think that the Al Qaeda operatives in Kosovo were there
without Clark's knowledge or that he did not control their interactions with
US military.
In June of 2000, I was stunned to see an announcement in the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette that a retiring Wesley Clark was going to go to work for
billionaire investment banker and Presidential kingmaker Jackson
Stephens in Little Rock. This set off alarm bells that Clark was someone
to watch. In his current campaign literature, Clark lists his profession as
an investment banker. And he is still employed by Stephens.
Stephens was the man who gave a down-and-out Bill Clinton a $2 million
loan to jumpstart an ailing presidential campaign in 1992. There is also a
glowing photograph of Stephens with a young George W. Bush in the
brilliant expose of the drug money laundering and covert operations bank
BCCI, False Profits. Several BCCI players, including Saudi banker Khalid
bin Mahfouz, have been directly tied to the financing of Al Qaeda.
A search of the FTW web site shows that I have written about Stephens -
Jimmy Carter's roommate at Annapolis -- six times. Stephens' firm
Systematics, which has since gone through two name changes to
become Axciom, was deeply connected to the PROMIS software scandal,
the Worthen Bank, the Lippo Group, and subsequently through a 2001
FTW investigation to drug money laundering out of the Mena Regional
Intermountain Airport in Arkansas. In that investigation, looking into the
apparent release from US prison of Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos
Lehder, we found that one of Stephens' subsidiaries, Beverly Enterprises,
had been connected to a suspected money laundering operation involving
bearer bonds sold by Bill Clinton's Arkansas Development Financial
Authority, sold by Stephens Inc, and underwritten by the insurance giant
AIG and Goldman Sachs.
Please See:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/gray_money.htmlhttp://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/part_2.htmlOn Oct. 7, Wesley Clark's campaign manager, Donny Fowler, resigned
suddenly -- according to a CNN story the following day -- because his
authority had been usurped by two insiders from Clinton's 1992
campaign. That Bill Clinton would turn up all over the Clark campaign is
no surprise. The day before announcing his candidacy, Clark received an
endorsement from Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel.Rangel, a black
Democrat, is closely tied to the Clinton machine. Clinton maintains an
office in Harlem. That being said, what has Wesley Clark ever done to
endear himself to black voters? What was Rangel thinking?
Bill Clinton is a member of the Bilderberg Group, The Trilateral
Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Clark is a member of
the CFR.
Wesley Clark is also one of two presidential candidates to have
"discovered" his Jewish ancestry in an election year. The September 26
issue of The Jewish Forward revealed that Clark was the son of a Jewish
lawyer from New York named Kanne. After his father's death when Clark
was four, Clark was taken to Arkansas by a Southern Baptist mother and
raised as a Baptist. According to the story, Clark did not discover his
Jewish ancestry until he was in his twenties. The Forward story is the
first-known public disclosure of this ancestry.
And, last but not least, Wesley Clark has a business relationship with
George Soros. According to Heather Cottin's excellent deconstruction of
Soros (above) Clark sits on the board of Soros' International Crisis Group
(ICG) with the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Allen, former
Reagan National Security Advisor.
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