Clark at ICTY

In today’s article on Wesley Clark’s appearance at the Hague Inquisition, Elaine Sciolino of the New York Times reveals some important information.
Apparently, I’m not the only one wondering why Clark’s testimony came at this stage of the show trial, when the Kosovo phase was supposed to have ended earlier this year. In fact, the Inquisitors’ choice of witnesses towards the end of their allotted time reveals desperation and frustration; having failed to prove anything, they are now hauling in whoever they can drag into the courtroom, in vain hopes they might get lucky.

Sciolino reveals Clark testified in place of Richard Holbrooke, the obnoxious loudmouth and rogue diplomat who in 1995 bullied the Bosnian belligerents into an armistice at Dayton, and tried to get Milosevic to surrender Kosovo without a fight in 1998. Imperial authorities agreed to allow either Clarke or Holbrooke to testify, and apparently Clark was deemed a more useful choice. Why? Because he’s running for President, of course.
Among Sciolino’s revelations is also that Bill Clinton intervened on Clark’s behalf with an urgent fax to the Inquisition, after Milosevic questioned Clark’s character during cross-examination. Clinton sent the fax at the prosecutors’ request. Obviously, the Inquisition still reveres Clinton, though everyone else knows the man is a pathological liar.
There’s other good stuff in Sciolino’s article – for example, how the Inquisition tried to paint Milosevic’s characterization of the KLA as “these murderers, these rapists, these killers of their own kind” (which they were)as “racist ranting,” or how Clark tried to insinuate that because Milosevic was able to influence Bosnian Serbs to agree to NATO occupation in Dayton, he actually had control over them. But what really stands out is how all this appeared to be a well-coordinated effort between the Inquisition, Clark, Clinton, and the foreign policy establishment that ran things a few years back, eager to regain the levers of power. Milosevic’s show trial was just a backdrop, a road to power.
For more on Clark’s appearance at the ICTY, see tomorrow’s Balkan Express.