Wesley Clark

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Person.png Wesley Clark   Sourcewatch WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(soldier, whistleblower)
Wesley Clark.jpg
Born1944-12-23
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
SpouseGertrude Kingston
ExposedUnited States/Foreign policy
Member ofAtlantic Council/Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, British-North American Committee, Center for American Progress, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, French-American Foundation/Young Leaders/1983, Global Panel Foundation/Board of Advisors, National Endowment for Democracy/Board, Rhodes Scholar/1966

Employment.png Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
July 11, 1997 - May 3, 2000
EmployerNATO
Preceded byGeorge Joulwan
Succeeded byJoseph Ralston
Wesley Clark on Democracy Now! about the Pentagon's decision to invade Iraq.

Opinions

“And what happened in 9/11 is we didn’t have a strategy, we didn’t have bipartisan agreement, we didn’t have American understanding of it and we had instead a policy coup in this country, a coup, a policy coup. Some hardnosed people took over the direction of American policy and they never bothered to inform the rest of us.”
Wesley Clark (2007)  [1]

Overheard in The Pentagon

Wesley Clark reported in 2007 that:

“In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’”
Wesley Clark (2007-03-02)  [2]

 

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