Former
NATO commander Wesley Clark told CNN Monday morning that Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan night have blackmailed President Trump
into withdrawing US forces from Syria. The retired U.S. Army general
and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander posed the following
explosive question during a CNN live interview on Monday:
"You
have to ask, why was the decision made? People around the world are
asking this and our allies in the Middle East are asking, did
Erdogan blackmail the president? Was there a payoff or
something? What was it? Why would a guy make a decision like this?"
This
follows a broad Pentagon and deep state backlash in reaction to last
week's sudden White House announcement of a "full" and
"immediate" pullout of the some 2000+ American military
personnel training and advising Kurdish-Arab SDF forces in north-east
Syria (in October the commander of the Special Operations Joint Task
Force Operation Inherent Resolvelet
slip that there were actually 4,000 troops in Syria,
but quickly tried
to walk it back).
Quickly
on the heels of the decision Trump's senior aides noted the decision
was made after
a phone call between Trump and Erdogan on December 14th, and
curiously the U.S. State Department approved the sale of $3.5
billion in patriots missiles the day after.
Ex-NATO Supreme Allied Commander @GeneralClark: "I'm very concerned" about the US withdrawal from Syria because "there doesn't seem to be any strategic rationale for the decision."
"Did Erdogan blackmail the president? Was there a payoff is or something?" http://cnn.it/2Cxf7vp
Gen.
Clark said on CNN's "New Day": “There
doesn’t seem to be any strategic rationale for the decision. And if
there’s no strategic rationale for the decision then you have to
ask, why was the decision made?" And
he followed with: "People around the world are asking this and
some of our friends and our allies in the Middle East are asking, did
Erdogan blackmail the president? Was
there a payoff or something? Why
would a guy make a decision like this? Because all the
recommendations were against it."
President @RT_Erdogan of Turkey has very strongly informed me that he will eradicate whatever is left of ISIS in Syria....and he is a man who can do it plus, Turkey is right “next door.” Our troops are coming home!
Clark
further slammed Trump for weakening relationships with allies around
the world, including with NATO: “What the United States had going
for it [was] the reputation of reliable consistency — that we were
going to be there through thick and thin. The
decision on the spur of the moment as the president made undercuts
all of that,”
Clark said.
He
added further, calling the Syria pullout decision "dangerous":
That
kind of decision sends a message around the world to South Korea, to
our allies at NATO, to Japan. When
the going gets tough, or for whatever reason no one can understand,
suddenly a tweet comes out, the policy has changed. This
is a really dangerous time for the United States and foreign policy
because of this.
Meanwhile,
the current crisscross on interests and recent scandals (most
especially the Kashoggi killing and slow Turkish drip of
information), and the potential for geopolitical blackmail between
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United States just got more interesting
with the following Monday Trump tweet:
Saudi Arabia has now agreed to spend the necessary money needed to help rebuild Syria, instead of the United States. See? Isn’t it nice when immensely wealthy countries help rebuild their neighbors rather than a Great Country, the U.S., that is 5000 miles away. Thanks to Saudi A!
The
White House has long pushed for the Saudis to step up spending on the
coalition mission in Syria, and is now attempting to reassure the
world there will be no power vacuum in eastern Syria once the
Pentagon withdraws.
Did
we just witness a grand bargain for Syria struck based on US exit?
If you think (correctly) that Info Wars tends towards paranoia then just watch the video first.
Gen. Wesley Clark has a strange history of revealing some of the intents of the psychopaths in charge. Clearly he knows his subject quite well - he's one himself!
WESLEY
CLARK CALLS FOR INTERNING “DISLOYAL” AMERICANS
Advocates
life sentence for people who have not committed a crime
Retired
US Army General and the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe for
NATO Wesley Clark advocates rounding up “radicalized” and
“disloyal” Americans and putting them in internment camps for the
“duration” of the war on terror.
“In
World War II if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the
United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him
in a camp, they were prisoners of war,” Clark told MSNBC.
The
difference is that World War II was a war declared under Article I,
Section 8, Clause II of the Constitution whereas the war on terror is
undeclared and thus illegal.
Clark
is in essence advocating a life sentence for people who have not
committed a crime but merely engaged in speech — often
reprehensible, yet constitutionally protected — the government
considers radical and in opposition to its foreign policy.
The
Bush administration declared the war on terror would last a
generation or more. Senior officials with the Obama administration
meanwhile have said — when formulating “disposition matrix” to
determine how terrorism suspects will be disposed of — they had
reached a “broad consensus that such operations are likely to be
extended at least another decade” or more.
The
Edward Snowden “leaks reveal that the war on terror at home
continues to grind on, capturing in its dragnet millions of Americans
and foreigners, many of them innocent of any crime. The war on terror
has become institutionalized, and the domestic costs of this war
continue to mount: privacy is being eroded; communications are being
monitored; and dissent is being cracked down on. The primary targets
of the domestic war on terror continue to be Muslims and Arabs,
though it is now clear that the sweep of the domestic war has
ensnared millions of other Americans. And there is no end in sight to
this domestic juggernaut,” writes Alex Kane.
Clark’s
remarks reveal the mindset of the upper echelon of government. Those
who disagree with the government are now to be rounded up and shut up
indefinitely in political internment camps.
Mass
internment of official enemies on par with Nazi Germany and Stalin’s
Soviet Union is now “on the table” and openly discussed as
suspicious attacks and FBI orchestrated and grandstanded terror plots
continue to grab headlines and build a reactionary consensus as the
designed result of an incessant, decades-long propaganda campaign.
General Wesley
Kanne Clark, Sr.,
former Supreme Allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) during the war against Yugoslavia and
presidential candidate, revealed recently on CNN that the Islamic
State (ISIS) was “funded by our friends and allies in order to
fight Hezbollah.” Although hailed by many as a whistleblower for
this revelation, is it really possible that a man of his stature, who
led NATO in slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent Serbs under
the completely fabricated charges that they were genociding Muslims,
really be telling the American people the truth now, or was this
“leak” a half-truth designed to mislead?
Clarkstated in a recent CNN interview:
“ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies.
Because as people will tell you in the region that if you want
somebody who will fight to the death against Hezbollah, you don’t
put out a recruiting poster saying, ‘sign up for us. We’re gonna
make a better world.’ You go after zealots and you go after these
religious fundamentalists. That’s who fights Hezbollah. It’s like
a Frankenstein.”
This
is not the first time Clark has revealed inside information about the
wars in the Middle East. In
a 2007 interview with “Democracy Now” radio talk show host Amy
Goodman,
Clark made big news by revealing that only days after the 9-11
attacks one of the top generals in the Pentagon had showed him a memo
from then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld outlining long-term U.S.
war plans even before the invasion of Afghanistan had commenced.
According
to Clark, the general had told him, “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.” For many,
this was proof that the wars were planned ahead of time earning Clark
credibility in the antiwar movement.
So
Clark is once again revealing inside information that ISIS is not
simply a homegrown terrorist organization but that it “got started
through funding from our friends and allies” and its purpose is to
fight Hezbollah.
He
doesn’t tell us which friends funded it and we are left to guess
that he probably means Israel, Saudi Arabia and other countries in
the area hostile to Hezbollah and Syrian President Bashar al Assad
such as Qatar and Turkey. But although the general is telling us part
of the truth, he is being somewhat misleading by obscuring both the
real source of the funding and the true purpose of ISIS.
These
Islamic “zealots” Clark is referring to go back to the creation
of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda in Afghanistan in the early 1980s,
funded by the United States in order to fight the Soviet Union.
While
the U.S. officially condemns ISIS, it has routinely been caught
funding them.The
Express Tribune,
an affiliate of The
New York Times,
reported in late January, in an article titled, “Startling
revelations: IS operative confesses to getting funds via U.S.,”
that Pakistani security forces captured an ISIS fighter who has
revealed that he and many fighters alongside him received funds that
were routed through the U.S.
AMERICAN
FREE PRESS published an article in August 2014—“ISIS
a CIA-Mossad Creation?”—stating
that it was revealed through 1.7 million pages of leaked documents by
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden that ISIS is a
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-Mossad-MI6 [Military Intelligence,
Section 6, part of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)]
operation and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been reputed to
be a Mossad-trained operative whose real name is Elliot Shimon, the
son of Jewish parents.
Neocon
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) had repeatedly
been photographed in
Syria with al-Baghdadi and other terrorists in June 2013, several
months before ISIS was officially launched, though this claim has
been disputed by mainstream media outlets. It has also been reported
that the
CIA was involved in training ISIS in
Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government.
Clark’s
claim that ISIS was created simply to fight Hezbollah is also
misleading.
The
Snowden documents contend that British, American and Israeli
intelligence created ISIS as “a terrorist organization capable of
centralizing all extremist actions across the world,” using a
strategy called Hornet’s Nest, designed to “protect Israel.”
According to the documents, “the only solution for the protection
of the Jewish state is to create an enemy near its borders.”
Yet
even this is misleading, as Israel is not exactly a shrinking violet.
It
is Israel’s neighbors who need protection from the Jewish state.
The real purpose of ISIS may not be completely understood yet, but it
seems to play several roles both locally and globally. Surely it is
being used as a backdoor entry into Syria to take down Assad, but its
activities are not confined to Iraq and Syria. We recently saw the 21
beheadings in Libya, whether real or staged, and ISIS
is urging new attackson
the “infidel West” following the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
It
is reputed that ISIS has terrorist cells in many European countries
as well as in the U.S. ISIS is also used to cause problems for
Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Chechnya with its terrorist “Chechen
Legion” as well as supporting Ukrainian-Israeli oligarch Ihor
Kolomoisky’s Dzhokhar’s Dudayev Battalion in Eastern Ukraine
against the pro-Russian rebels.
ISIS
is poised to become a global political-terrorist force used by the
intelligence agencies to destabilize countries, escalate Islamophobia
and justify intervention by the Western military-industrial complex.
Locally, it will help facilitate the Zionist dream of “Greater
Israel” from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Pete
Papaherakles is a writer and political cartoonist for AFP.
Former
4-star U.S General admits to America Foreign Policy Coup
"It
seems that the restoration of a wider conflict is inevitable, and I
hope that the United States will
take all necessary steps to
prevent it," – announced the American general, former
commander of NATO forces in Europe during the war in Kosovo, Wesley
Clark
in his speech
at the Atlantic Council.
According
to the general, Minsk agreements "barely work." Heavy
weapons, which had to be withdrawn according to the agreement, are
hidden near the boundary line. Nevertheless, Russia continues to
supply military equipment to the militants.
Given
these factors, General Clark expects a new offensive by pro-Russian
forces after the Easter holidays, but before May 9.
"If
you look at the previous patterns of operations, it is possible to
predict the next Russian offensive, noting that it is hard to keep
the Donbas without control over the supply of electricity and the
Crimea without proper communication.
Nevertheless, according to the
General, Putin
may postpone the attack, if
European leaders decide not to boycott celebrations in Moscow.
"Putin's
ambitions go beyond military targets. The Russian president wants to
drive a wedge between the US and its European
allies,
and between western and eastern members of NATO to weaken the
countries of Central and Eastern Europe," – announced General
Clark.
Clark
also expressed his belief that the US should change its current
policy and start immediately arming Ukraine.
Earlier,
the former NSDC Secretary Patubiy already mentioned a possibiilty of
an offensive
by the militnats before
May 9.
I
think we need to keep this 2007 interview with Gen Wesley Clark in
mind when we consider what is happening in the Middle East. The big difference is that he says the US is not interested in Africa because it doesn't have oil. Well, it turns out it does, and, yes, the US is finally interested in Africa.
General
Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years
TRANSCRIPT:
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!"”
Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander NATO, testifies in this
2-minute video that the US planned to overthrow seven
countries after 9/11: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
and Iran.
The Pentagon admitted
a strategy to do so (here, here, here):
the
US conducts acts of terrorism in nations they want to control,
the
US continues terrorism to provoke an act of reprisal,
the US labels the
reprisal “terrorism” to justify covert and overt military
operations to overthrow targeted governments.
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