Here's Clark on TPM:
And in an odd replay of the Carter administration, found itself chained to the Iraqi policy -- promoted by the Project for a New American Century -- much the same way that in the Carter administration some of the same people formed the Committee on the Present Danger which cut out from the Carter administration the ability to move forward on SALT II.
TPM: This being the same neo-conservatives that people hear about in the press today?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_09_28.htmland here's PNAC responding:
CLARK EMERGING AS AN OPPONENT OF REAGANISM
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html& Path=NYS/2003/10/02&ID=Ar00100
Candidate Derides Committee That Crafted Cold War Victory
Also, after his book was published, the press noticed the PNAC chapter. here's the Islamic press:
7 Muslim Countries Were On U.S. War List: Wesley Clark
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-09/22/article04.shtml"What a mistake! I reflected...as though the terrorism were simply coming
from these states," Clark wrote
WASHINGTON, September 22 (IslamOnline.net) - 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,
The full-mooners fixated on a think tank called the Project for the New American Century, which has a staff of five and issues memos on foreign policy. To hear these people describe it, PNAC is sort of a Yiddish Trilateral Commission, the nexus of the sprawling neocon tentacles.
We'd sit around the magazine guffawing at the ludicrous stories that kept sprouting, but belief in shadowy neocon influence has now hardened into common knowledge.
Wesley Clark, among others, cannot go a week without bringing it up.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/opinion/06BROO.html?ex=1073970000&en=46d5aea99db879d4&ei=5 062&partner=GOOGLE
Of course, fool-mooners here think that he is PNAC....(kinda like Krugman was accused by wingnutz of having worked for Enron)