Will We Bomb Iran? Wes Clark Says Follow the (New York) Money
Arianna Huffington says this column has Wes Clark certain that Israeli talk of U.S. strikes against Iran is a good harbinger of what’s to come from the Bush administration. “You just have to read what’s in the Israeli press,” Huffington quotes the former NATO commander and Democratic presidential candidate as saying. “The Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers.”
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