{"id":353,"date":"2003-12-17T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-17T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T03:22:21","slug":"clark-at-icty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/clark-at-icty\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark at ICTY"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s article on Wesley Clark\u2019s appearance at the Hague Inquisition, Elaine Sciolino of the New York Times <\/a> reveals some important information.
\nApparently, I\u2019m not the only one wondering why Clark\u2019s 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\u2019 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.
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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\u2019s running for President, of course.
\nAmong Sciolino\u2019s revelations is also that Bill Clinton intervened on Clark\u2019s behalf with an urgent fax to the Inquisition, after Milosevic questioned Clark\u2019s character during cross-examination. Clinton sent the fax at the prosecutors\u2019 request. Obviously, the Inquisition still reveres Clinton, though everyone else knows the man is a pathological liar.
\nThere\u2019s other good stuff in Sciolino\u2019s article \u2013 for example, how the Inquisition tried to paint Milosevic\u2019s characterization of the KLA as \u201cthese murderers, these rapists, these killers of their own kind\u201d (which they were)as \u201cracist ranting,\u201d or how Clark tried to insinuate that because Milosevic was able to influence <\/i> Bosnian Serbs to agree to NATO occupation in Dayton, he actually had control<\/i> 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\u2019s show trial was just a backdrop, a road to power.
\nFor more on Clark\u2019s appearance at the ICTY, see tomorrow\u2019s Balkan Express.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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