Clark's letter in NYT today- The WH didn't call him after 911? [View All]

I would like to correct any possible misunderstanding of my remarks on "Meet the Press," quoted in Paul Krugman's July 15 column, about "people around the White House" seeking to link Sept. 11 to Saddam Hussein.

I received a call from a Middle East think tank outside the country, asking me to link 9/11 to Saddam Hussein. No one from the White House asked me to link Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11. Subsequently, I learned that there was much discussion inside the administration in the days immediately after Sept. 11 trying to use 9/11 to go after Saddam Hussein.

In other words, there were many people, inside and outside the government, who tried to link Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11.

WESLEY K. CLARK
Little Rock, Ark., July 18, 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/opinion/L13CLAR.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fLetters

I thought he told MTP that the WH or the Bush admin called him in the days after 911. Didn't he tell them he'd talk about the Iraq connection on TV if they gave him the evidence? :shrug: