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Clark Says 'Rush to War' Based on Twisted Facts
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: October 4, 2003 by the New York Times. First three paragraphs shown here.

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 3 — Gen. Wesley K. Clark delivered a searing indictment of the Bush administration on Friday, asserting that its "headlong rush to war" was based on twisted facts and had violated the nation's democratic principles "with dire consequences for our security."

General Clark said the administration was governing "against the will of the majority" by being secretive, demonizing critics and retaliating harshly "against anyone who expresses dissent, questions their facts or challenges their logic."

The general, a former supreme Allied commander in Europe for NATO and the most recent entrant into the Democratic presidential race, called for an investigation of the intelligence that led the country into the Iraq war.