Wesley Clark is fourth Democratic candidate touting his Jewish connections
by Ken Francis
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Part I: Descended from the priestly caste of Kohen Part II: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most kosher of them all? Part III: The Clinton Factor Part IV: Calling General Backtrack! Part V: Waco and Kosovo Part VI: coming soon

Part V: Waco and Kosovo
When Retired U.S./NATO General Wesley Kanne Clark announced his candidacy as a Democratic contender for President back in late September, he immediately bolted to the top of the opinion polls, a lead he sustained for over a month . But in recent weeks he fell into a tie for first, and now, according to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey of Democrats, Clark has dropped behind former Vermont Governor and abortion doctor Howard Dean by nine percentage points, 25% to 17%.

While this waning in popularity can be attributed to various causes, the recent flap over what critics say was Clark's involvement in the 2003 fiery deaths of over eighty people at the Branch Davidian religious community in Waco, Texas, probably hasn't helped with the more conservative Democratic voters. Initially, he refused when asked by an Insight magazine correspondent to be interviewed on the subject back in October. As it turned out, this was but opening salvo of what would become a growing assault on Clark's character, stemming from his purported role in what many Americans perceive to be a senseless siege against citizens whose "crimes," in most cases, amounted to no more than being members of a fringe religious group and wanting to be left alone.



Overkill defined The assault on the Branch Davidian religious sect by Federal agents, resulting in the death of over 80 adults and children, is one of the dark moments in U.S. history. The military vehicles used in the raid came from a nearby army base, where they were under the command of General Wesley Clark.


The allegations have continued unabated, principally one of the few bastions of truly free speech left, the Internet. So successful were the various websites and chat rooms in getting out the Clark connection with this sordid page of history that finally some response was deemed necessary. But even then, Clark avoided direct comment, perhaps thinking that to do so would be to open the question at future press conferences and other speaking engagements, a move that could prove costly. In any case, he addressed the issue, as it were, by proxy:

An Army division commanded by Wesley Clark supplied some of the military equipment for the government's 51-day standoff with a religious sect in Waco, Texas, and Clark's deputy, now the Army Chief of Staff, took part in a crucial Justice Department meeting five days before the siege ended in disaster, according to military records.

Clark's involvement in support of the Waco operation a decade ago was indirect and fleeting, according to his former commanding officer. But the assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies by military officers around Clark and soldiers under his command has prompted a flurry of questions to his presidential campaign. (Commanding officer says Clark had no direct role in Waco siege)

In the article, which appeared in some newspapers under headlines seemingly calculated to derail his candidacy, Clark is bailed out by Army Lt. Gen. Horace Grady "Pete" Taylor, who "takes the rap" for him, and campaign spokeswoman Mary Jacoby. Mention, too, is made of the investigation (read whitewash) conducted by President Bill Clinton's Justice Secretary Janet Reno, who has much culpability herself in ordering the Waco inferno.

"But critics," the article notes, "such as documentary filmmaker Michael McNulty say there are many unanswered questions about the deaths at Waco, including the nature of the military equipment that came out of Clark's division and whether it was used." (Another critic of the government's activities, Carol Valentine, who is curator of the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum, believes that McNulty's film, Waco: Rules of Engagement, is itself a false opposition, but that's another issue.) There is considerable evidence, contrary to the protestations of innocence by Taylor and Jacoby, that Wesley Clark did, in deed, aid and abet the the horrific events of a decade ago.


The government attack that brought about the tragic deaths of nearly ninety (estimates vary) men, women and children on April 19, 2003 outside of Waco, is one of the defining moments of the Clinton years and is indelibly seared into the memory of all Americans who old enough to remember it. The siege that caused the fiery destruction of Mount Carmel, the Branch Davidian sect's religious community, has come to epitomize the consequences of the rejection of a fundamental principle upon which our nation was founded: That its citizens are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that no government, without just cause, can ever abridge. (Koresh and the Waco siege)

Death came to the unsuspecting that fateful morning, when with reckless disregard for human life—that's the more charitable view, others call it murderous intent—booms attached to tanks and other combat vehicles smashed through walls, it was contended, to introduce tear gas (never minding, of course, that the very children they supposedly were trying to rescue could have been struck and killed by such acts of vandalism). Whether one chooses to believe the government's version or that of its critics, the bottom line is that none of those people would have perished had the Feds not employed strong arm (overkill in the most literal sense) tactics to arrest one man, Vernon Howell a.k.a. David Koresh, the group's leader—a man who easily could have been arrested, probably without violence, in town weeks before.

Ostensibly, the attack was directed by the FBI and ATF, who acknowledged the "loan" of military vehicles from nearby Fort Hood. But this doesn't accurately tell what happened. For that information, we need to look beyond the controlled media's sanitized version of events. One that brings to into focus the involvement one General Clark, who would later serve as the commander of the NATO forces that battled Yugoslavia's Communist dictator Slobodan Milosevic (this latter engagement, as will be shown in a moment, had much less to do with securing freedom for oppressed people as it did with providing prep work—like the Iraqi invasion—for the "peacekeeping" troops of an emerging world government). Clark enlisted the aid of Yugoslav thugs to carry out his plans in the War in Kosovo.

At www.electwesleyclark.com a biographical sketch of the candidate dryly lists among Wesley Clark's accomplishments how:

As the Commander 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas (August 1992-April 1994), he transitioned the Division into a rapidly deployable force and conducted three emergency deployments to Kuwait.

No mention, of course, of any involvement with the assault at Waco. That is provided in the article "From Waco to Belgrade: Wesley K. Clark and America's 'Army of the Future'," where Ken McCarthy of www.brasscheck.com  writes:

The initial reaction of virtually every person who hears about Clark's involvement in the attack on the Mt. Carmel Center of the Branch Davidians outside of Waco, Texas is surprise and/or disbelief: "I thought it was an ATF/FBI operation that went wrong
and all the military did was lend a few tanks."

Let's start by dispelling that myth. Here is the list of US military personnel and equipment that the US Justice Department admits were used at Mt. Carmel:
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