Yikes. Luckily for the world, Bush's Neo-Con-Artists are not as powerful as they once were, and the plans will probably just end up as classified documents in the Bush Presidential Library. How about we impeach him first, and ask questions later?
"A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country" (Wesley K. Clark)
In "A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country," published by Palgrave Macmillan last month, the former four-star general recalls two visits to the Pentagon following the terrorist attacks of September 2001. On the first visit, less than two weeks after Sept. 11, he writes, a "senior general" told him, "We're going to attack Iraq. The decision has basically been made."
Six weeks later, Clark returned to Washington to see the same general and inquired whether the plan to strike Iraq was still under consideration. The general's response was stunning:
"'Oh, it's worse than that,' he said, holding up a memo on his desk. 'Here's the paper from the Office of the Secretary of Defense [then Donald Rumsfeld] outlining the strategy. We're going to take out seven countries in five years.' And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran."
While Clark doesn't name the other four countries, he has mentioned in televised interviews that the hit list included Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan
[Click to read more Joe Conason: Wesley Clark's memoir and the neocon strategy for a wider Mideast war | Salon.com ]
