Wes Clark: Bush Went into Iraq to Cover-Up for 9/11 Failure

[kpete]

Wes Clark: Bush Went into Iraq to Cover-Up for 9/11 Failure

Later, General Clark and Mr. Warner spoke to the donors and other attendees (which you can listen to here http://pages.pomona.edu/~jhs02002/Warner_Clark.wav -- a 21.2 megabyte .wav file), hitting on some of the same themes as the press conference. The most interesting moment from either speech, at least to me, came from Clark roughly 14 minutes, 40 seconds into the file.

"I think they went because 9/11 was a monumental policy failure by the administration and going to Iraq was a cover-up for that failure."

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/4/26/202821/159

[catmandu57]

1. He was going into Iraq

from the start, 11 september just gave him an out to do it.

[babylonsister]

There's a meme you can sink your teeth into! nt

[mdmc]

2. Wes has been a pretty stong hitter against this war.

God Bless Him!

[JNelson6563]

3. 9/11 was to justify war w/Iraq

They needed it to happen, like the fire at the reichstag.

Julie

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. LIHOP.

[DrDebug]

8. MIHOP

Nevertheless he is right that Iraq is also the cover up of the 9/11 scandal.

Then again I had a discussion with somebody THIS YEAR and he still believed the communist Reichstag story and said that I was giving a commie lie. That's how slow the world is...

[robbedvoter]

4. K&R. My new signature!

Clark always provides the greatest soundbites - short, sweet and to the point!

[txindy]

5. Ouch! That'll leave a mark. Nothing cuts like the truth.

Nicely done, General Clark! :applause:

[madfloridian]

7. Bush had planned to go to Iraq from day one. It was the gateway...

to the middle east.

[rman]

9. W's neocon gang wanted to invade Iraq long before 9-11,

as we all very well know.
Though perhaps it is coincidence that the neocons got the "new Pearl Harbor" they figured they'd need in order to pursue their plan for US global dominance.
What do you think, mr Clark?

[neoblues]

10. Almost... He went into IRAQ to Help the 9/11 Cover-Up...

And because he wanted to/wanted to use military force/throw his weight around and settle his vendetta against Saddam (making up for his daddy's failure) while securing the NeoCon dreams of a foothold in the middle east. Three birds with one stone.

[Tim4319]

11. Isn't this called "Wag the Dog"?

The same thing Clinton was accused of to take our minds off of Monica? These seems to be on a whole larger scale! A WHOLE LARGER SCALE. No one died due to Monica.

[PATRICK]

12. In all the secrecy

everyone is entitled to an opinion. IMHO the Bush team was elated by the whole 9/11 opportunity. No subsequent disaster has made them move toward a policy already predestined in their game plan. It only sped them up so as to leave one mess behind them for the next, using the issue of one failure to preoccupy the powerless as they keep grabbing with impunity. 9/11 or no 9/11 they were going into Iraq and any other monstrous failure would merely have been outrageously employed as a stepping stone. EVERYTHING is a stepping stone to their agenda. Until someone understands their grand mad scheme these little reasons(although Clark's is very big and astute) only leave the mask on the perps.

[Festivito]

13. Elated, yes, but then some wanted investigations... oh-oh.

The anthrax did not scare everyone as much as hoped, then it was found to be from Ft. Detrick, YIKES for the Bush admin.

They asked the Dems NOT TO INVESTIGATE. And, Dems did not for a while, then it became inevitable, and so they had to rig it. Another YIKES by the Bushites.

They use their faults as talking points as though those points were their strengths. 9/11 was an achilles heel to Republicans, so they speak of it over and over as their strength, their reason for everything, that it changed everything. That keeps everyone unable to look at anything on a level playing field, keeps people from comparing anything with anything else, keeps everyone in a fog, uncertain of where we are and where the horizon might tell us is up and down and north and south accurately enough to compare positions and past with present.

Oh, Wes is right. It's plausible. It's more than plausible.