General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years
Uploaded on Sep 11, 2011
Originally published in March 2007
General Wesley Clark:
Because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
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Han slog mange tusinde irakere ihjel. Men nogle mener, at han også lagde låg på de etniske og religiøse spændinger i Irak..(..)
30. dec. 2016, 20:08 - tv2 nyheder.dk
Selvom mange nok kan blive enige om, at Saddam Hussein var en diktator, der udsatte sit folk for frygtelige grusomheder, er der nogle, der mener, at Vesten aldrig burde have sat ham fra magten. Blandt dem er den tidligere CIA-officer John Nixon, der var den første til at afhøre Saddam Hussein, efter at han blev fundet i 2003. Han har netop udgivet bogen ”Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein” om sine mange møder med den tidligere diktator.
Nixon mener, at Saddam Hussein var i stand til at holde sammen på Iraks multietniske og multireligiøse samfund, som ingen andre har kunnet siden. Han fortæller, at Hussein under afhøringerne frydede sig over, de problemer, der mødte de amerikanske tropper i Irak.
- I vil finde ud af, at det ikke er let at regere Irak, sagde han til Nixon. Det skriver den tidligere CIA-mand i et indlæg i The Daily Mail.
Og tiden skulle vise, at han fik ret. Irak er i dag hårdt plaget af sekteriske spændinger, terror og ikke mindst terrorbevægelsen Islamisk Stats hærgen. Lige nu er den største militæraktion siden den amerikanske invasion i gang i landet – nemlig tilbageerobringen af storbyen Mosul fra Islamisk Stat.....
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