Former General Wesley Clark was SACEUR, NATO’s Military Commander in Chief, from July 1997 to March 2000. He has served in the White House, Vietnam, Panama, Kuwait and elsewhere. Wesley talks about a meeting in the Pentagon in the days after 9/11. The bombs was at that time already falling in Afghanistan. One of the Generals from the Pentagon, told him; “We have made the decision. We are going to war with Iraq “
After which he picked up a piece of paper and said, “I just got this from above, after meeting with the Secretary of Defense today. This is a note that describes how we are going to Close Down Seven Countries in Five Years. ” Starting with “Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and ending with Iran”