Monday, June 23, 2003

You might have seen this elsewhere, but it needs to be disseminated as widely as possible:

General Wesley Clark had the following exchange -- which somehow was never deemed newsworthy by the mainstream press -- with Tim Russert eight days ago on Meet the Press:

GEN. CLARK: ...I think there was an immediate determination right after 9/11 that Saddam Hussein was one of the keys to winning the war on terror. Whether it was the need just to strike out or whether he was a linchpin in this, there was a concerted effort during the fall of 2001 starting immediately after 9/11 to pin 9/11 and the terrorism problem on Saddam Hussein.
       
MR. RUSSERT: By who? Who did that?
     
GEN. CLARK: Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, “You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.” I said, “But—I’m willing to say it but what’s your evidence?” And I never got any evidence. And these were people who had—Middle East think tanks and people like this and it was a lot of pressure to connect this and there were a lot of assumptions made. But I never personally saw the evidence and didn’t talk to anybody who had the evidence to make that connection


Full transcript here.

(Thanks again to Cursor for the link.)

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