I'm surprised this story about Wesley Clark's forthcoming book didn't get more attention when it surfaced a couple of days ago:

Clark wrote that a senior military officer told him on a visit to the Pentagon in November 2001 that the U.S. was planning to go against Iraq but there was more to it. After Iraq, the plan called for targeting Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.

"He said it with reproach -- with disbelief, almost -- at the breadth of the vision," Clark wrote. "I moved the conversation away, for this was not something I wanted to see moving forward either.

"What a mistake! I reflected -- as though the terrorism were simply coming from those states," said Clark....

Now, though, the big Clark story is that there's reportedly a videotape of him praising Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Reagan. If this story is true, he has a lot of explaining to do -- although the the tape is said to have been made pre-9/11 and pre-Iraq quagmire.