------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 31, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
VERDICT FIRST, EVIDENCE LATER--IF EVER Gen. Wesley Clark, who commanded NATO forces during the Yugoslav war and is now retired from the military, is certainly no man of peace. But he is challenging the Bush administration's conduct of the Iraq war and preparing for a possible bid for the presidency. Here's what he said about the effort to blame 9/11 on Iraq, when questioned by Tim Russert of Meet the Press on June 15: "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.' ... 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. ... I didn't talk to anybody who had evidence." - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe wwnews- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the voice of resistance http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
