Don’t Bomb Iran

General Wesley Clark, US warrior, former head of NATO and architect of the Kosovo war, says “I’m worried about the surge [of US troops into Iraq],…But I’m worried about this even more.” Citing pressure from the Israeli lobby on US politicians as evidence of an impending attack on Iran, he said “How can you talk about bombing a country when you won’t even talk to them?” “It’s outrageous. We’re the United States of America; we don’t do that”. [Well, good point, but maybe he forgets the Cambodia bombings]
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Clark was really angry about what he’d read in this column by UPI Editor at Large Arnaud de Borchgrave. In the piece… de Borchgrave details Bibi Netanyahu leading the charge to lobby the Bush administration to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, and paints U.S. air strikes against Iran in 2007/08 as all-but-a-done deal.

“How can you talk about bombing a country when you won’t even talk to them?” said Clark. “It’s outrageous. We’re the United States of America; we don’t do that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the military option is off the table — but diplomacy is not what Jim Baker says it is… When we asked him what made him so sure the Bush administration was headed in this direction, he replied: “You just have to read what’s in the Israeli press. The Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers.”

Reminded that this was on the record and thus may offend the Zionist lobby, the maybe-presidential-candidate, whose family fled European pogroms of Jews, replied:

‘Yes, I know.” For Clark, this is the biggest foreign policy issue facing the U.S. “I’m worried about the surge,” he said. “But I’m worried about this even more.”