Robert Novak reports that General (and now presidential candidate) Wesley Clark held a meeting in 1994 in Bosnia with the mass murderer and war criminal Ratko Mladic. General Mladic was just done with killing all the men and boys in Srebrenica, a UN "safe haven."
And he is lecturing Bush on Iraq???
"U.S. diplomats warned Clark not to go to Bosnian Serb military headquarters to meet Mladic, considered by U.S. intelligence as the mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre of Muslim civilians (and still at large, sought by NATO peacekeeping forces). Besides the exchange of hats, they drank wine together, and Mladic gave Clark a bottle of brandy and a pistol.
After such behavior, Clark was never on the promotion list to full general until he appealed to Defense Secretary William Perry and Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He got his fourth star and became commander in chief of the Southern Command. His last post, as NATO supreme commander, found this infantry officer leading an air war against the Serbs over Kosovo. Clark argued with NATO colleagues by insisting on a ground troops option and complaining about the slowly graduated bombing campaign. He was pushed out abruptly by Defense Secretary William Cohen." (via Drudge)
Posted by Kevin Murphy at September 22, 2003 07:57 AM