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Gen. Wesley Clark is a major war criminal.

Please don't be fooled by the current well-orchestrated push to nominate

Clark as Democratic Party candidate for president, a trap that Michael
Moore has apparently fallen into as well as a number of other
well-meaning
peace people.

Gen. Wesley Clark was in charge of US military-run refugee camps in the
1980s and 1990s where Haitian refugees who were fleeing first Baby Doc
Duvalier -- and later the new regime installed by the US following the
overthrowal of the elected Aristide government -- were packed, under
appalling conditions condemned by the Center for Constitutional Rights,
among many others.

In the 1980s, many Haitian male refugees incarcerated at Krome (in
Miami),
and Fort Allen (in Puerto Rico) reported a strange condition called
gyneacomastia, a situation in which they developed full female breasts.
Ira
Kurzban, attorney for the Haitian Refugee Center, managed to pry free
government documents via a lawsuit on behalf of the refugees. These
contained the startling information that prison officials had ordered
the
refugees sprayed repeatedly with highly toxic chemicals never designed
for
such use. The officer in charge of the refugee camp? None other than
Gen.
Wesley Clark, who became chief of operations at the US Navy internment
camp at Guantanamo, and later head of NATO forces bombing Yugoslavia.

The documents go on to say that lengthy exposure to the particular
chemicals Clark authorized to be sprayed on detainees can cause hormonal

changes that, among other things, induce development of female breasts
in
men. In addition, medical studies of female Haitian refugees in New York

revealed that they had a much higher rate of cervical cancer than the
rest
of the female population.

In Guantanamo, Haitian refugees who had done nothing illegal but who
were
said to be HIV-positive were cruelly incarcerated. They were repeatedly
sprayed, detained for long periods outside in sweltering heat, given
poor
rations, and subjected to repeated physical as well as psychological
abuse,
all under Clark's "oversight". Many died as a result of the conditions
they
were forced to undergo.

Clark became head of the US Southern Command, and winked at some of
the worst death squad brutalities in Colombia in 1996-97 (committed by
right wing forces funded by the US and supported by the US military,
headed there by Clark).

A few years later, Gen Wesley Clark became supreme NATO commander
in Yugoslavia. He presided over the massive use of depleted uranium
weapons there which poisoned Yugoslavia's water supply and agriculture,
leading to an extremely high rate of miscarriages and childhood cancers.

Clark was also in charge of NATO's "spin" in the Yugoslavia bombardment.

Clark called the destruction of a Yugoslav train filled with civilians
by a
NATO missile "an uncanny accident." He said the same each time that
NATO bombed civilian targets, which happened frequently.

Paul Watson reported in the San Francisco Chronicle that "NATO bombers
scored several direct hits here in Kosovo's capital yesterday including
a
graveyard, a bus station, and a children's basketball court." (April 14)
A
Spanish pilot flying missions for NATO, Capt. Martin de la Hoz, stated
that
on a number of occasions his supervising colonel protested to NATO about

their bombing of non-military, civilian targets. "Once there was a coded

order from the North American military that we should drop
anti-personnel
bombs over Pristina and Nis. All of the missions that we flew, all and
each
one, were planned in detail, including attacking planes, targets and
type
of ammunition, by US high-ranking military authorities. ... They are
destroying the country," the Spanish F-18 pilot continued, "bombing it
with
novel weapons, toxic nerve gasses, surface mines dropped by parachute,
bombs containing uranium, black napalm, sterilization chemicals,
sprayings
to poison crops, and weapons of which even we still know nothing about."

(quoted in "Articulo 20," a Spanish weekly newspaper, June 14, 1999)

Clark was in charge of NATO forces and oversaw planning of these
missions.
He defended all of these bombings, and was an integral part of the
Clinton
team's "spin" operation in Yugoslavia.

It now also appears that Clark was "tactical consultant" to US military
forces present at the Waco, Texas massacre on February 28, 1993, when
the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, along with the FBI/Delta Force
launched its disastrous and lethal raid on the Branch Davidian compound,
in
which 82 people were killed. Was Clark the military "genius" that
planned
the assault on the civilian compound? Thus far, the corporate media have

given him a free pass and have not asked him about it, and independent
investigators have not been successful in prying the necessary
documentation from the military's clutches, despite mounting evidence
that
Clark was deeply involved at Waco.

- Mitchel Cohen

Hi. I've been saving these two articles for the day after Clark
announces and the media focuses on a real guy on horseback.
I can't say he's worse than most of the current Democrats
running, but the charges are serious and to be considered
amidst the blather.

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