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(20,729 posts)...a tantalizing passage in Wesley Clarks new memoir suggests that another war is part of a long-planned Department of Defense strategy that anticipated regime change by force in no fewer than seven Mideast states. Critics of the war have often voiced suspicions of such imperial schemes, but this is the first time that a high-ranking former military officer has claimed to know that such plans existed...
In A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country, published by Palgrave Macmillan last month, the former four-star general recalls two visits to the Pentagon following the terrorist attacks of September 2001. On the first visit, less than two weeks after Sept. 11, he writes, a senior general told him, Were going to attack Iraq. The decision has basically been made.
Six weeks later, Clark returned to Washington to see the same general and inquired whether the plan to strike Iraq was still under consideration. The generals response was stunning:
Oh, its worse than that, he said, holding up a memo on his desk. Heres the paper from the Office of the Secretary of Defense [then Donald Rumsfeld] outlining the strategy. Were going to take out seven countries in five years. And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran.
http://www.salon.com/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/