In article <bk986o$4tj$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu>, Gregory Elich says...

Gen. Wesley Clark -- War Criminal, Don't Be Fooled 
      
Mitchel Cohen
Brooklyn Green Party
September 16, 2003

Gen. Wesley Clark is a major war criminal. Please
don't be fooled by the current well-orchestrated push
to nominate Clark as Democratic Party nominee for
president, at trap which Michael Moore has apparently 
fallen into as well as a number of other well-meaning
peace people.

Gen. Wesley Clark was in charge of refugee camps in
the 1980s and 1990s where Haitian refugees who were
fleeing first Baby Doc Duvalier (and later the new
regime installed by the US following the overthrowal
of the elected Aristide government in the early
1990s), were packed, under appalling conditions
condemned by the Center for Constitutional Rights,
among many others. In the 1980s, many Haitian male
refugees incarcerated at Krome (in Miami), and Fort
Allen (in Puerto Rico) reported a strange condition 
called gyneacomastia, a situation in which they
developed full female breasts. 

Ira Kurzban, attorney for the Haitian Refugee Center,
managed to pry free government documents via a lawsuit
on behalf of the refugees. These contained the
startling information that prison officials had
ordered the refugees sprayed repeatedly with highly
toxic chemicals never designed for such generic use.
The officer in charge of the refugee camp? None other 
than Gen. Wesley Clark, chief of operations at the US
Navy internment camp at Guantanamo, and later head of
NATO forces bombing Yugoslavia. The documents go on to
say that lengthy exposure to the particular 
chemicals can cause hormonal changes that induce
development of female breasts. 
Medical studies of female Haitian refugees in New York
revealed that they had a much higher rate of cervical
cancer than the rest of the female 
population.

Half a decade later, Gen Welsey Clark was supreme NATO
commander in Yugoslavia. He presided over the massive
use of depeleted uranium weapons there which poisoned
Yugoslavia's water supply and agriculture,  
leading to an extremely high rate of miscarriages and
childhood cancers.

Clark was in charge of NATO's "spin" in the Yugoslavia
bombardment. Clark called the destruction of a
Yugoslav train filled with civilians by a 
NATO missile "an uncanny accident." He said the same
each time that NATO bombed civilian targets, which
happened frequently.

Paul Watson reported in the San Francisco Chronicle
that "NATO bombers scored several direct hits here in
Kosovo's capital yesterday - including a graveyard, a
bus station, and a children's basketball court."
(April 14) A Spanish pilot flying missions for NATO,
Capt. Martin de la Hoz, stated that on a number of
occasions his supervising colonel protested to NATO 
about their bombing of non-military, civilian targets.
"Once there was a coded order from the North American
military that we should drop anti-personnel 
bombs over Pristina and Nis. All of the missions that
we flew, all and each one, were planned in detail,
including attacking planes, targets and type of
ammunition, by US high-ranking military authorities.
... They are destroying the country," the Spanish F-18
pilot continued, "bombing it with 
novel weapons, toxic nerve gasses, surface mines
dropped by parachute, bombs containing uranium, black
napalm, sterilization chemicals, sprayings to poison
crops, and weapons of which even we still know nothing
about." (quoted in "Articulo 20," a Spanish weekly
newspaper, June 14, 1999)

Clark defended all of these bombings, and was an
integral part of the Clinton team's "spin" operation
in Yugoslavia.

- Mitchel Cohen