Bush's men tried to gag me, claims Gen Clark [View All]

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General Wesley Clark, the former Nato commander in Bosnia, and a probable presidential contender, has accused White House officials of trying to get him sacked as a CNN military analyst because they feared he would criticise the Iraq war.

Gen Clark is understood to be preparing to announce his candidacy for the Democratic party's nomination to run against President George W Bush in next year's election. Leading Democrats believe Mr Bush is now vulnerable on foreign policy and defence issues.

Gen Clark indicated that White House aides were so worried by him that they attempted to oust him from the cable network as America prepared for war.

"The White House actually back in February apparently tried to get me knocked off CNN and they wanted to do this because they were afraid that I would raise issues with their conduct of the war," he said in a recent radio interview.