Clark Post During Waco Gets New Attention
Wait...wasn't Wesley Clark on the grassy knoll in Dallas when JFK was assassinated in 1963? Rumor has it he was also in Memphis when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated? And don't CIA records show that he was in Saigon the day that Diem was murdered? Coincidence?? Hmm....
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.
Internet chat rooms and several news stories speculate that Clark played a role in the tactical planning for the operation that ended with the deaths of about 80 followers of the Branch Davidian religious sect and its leader, David Koresh.
Clark's campaign flatly denies any planning role by Clark in Waco. And an investigation by a Justice Department special counsel, former U.S. Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., bears out that assertion. Danforth found no improper actions by anyone in the U.S. military regarding Waco and concluded that the fiery end to the siege resulted from the Davidians setting fires inside the building compound where they were holed up....
Waco "was a civilian operation that the military provided some support to" and "any decisions about where the support came from were my decisions, not General Clark's," Taylor said this week.
"Clark's totally innocent in this regardless of what anybody thinks about him," says Taylor, Clark's former commander. "He played no direct role in this activity nor did any of us."
Regarding Taylor's comments, Clark campaign spokeswoman Mary Jacoby said "this is exactly what we've said all along; Gen. Clark had no involvement."
Sounds like someone was suffering through a slow news days, doesn't it? The next thing you'll be seeing is a picture of Gen. Clark holding the hand of a 12-year boy at Neverland Ranch. That will be followed by rumors he was in Chile during the coup that brought Salvador Allende to power. And didn't he play a crucial role in the Falklands War? Of course, there are those nasty unsubstantiated rumors about his role in supplying the Sandinistas with high-grade cocaine during the 1980's. Oh, and his alleged meeting with Osama bin-Laden in the weeks prior to 9.11....
Sounds like the man has been busy, eh??
