Feb 24, 2026
Cenk BATTLES General Clark In Heated Iran Debate
General Wesley Clark battled TYT's Cen Uygur about the potential war in Iran.
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Today.
Jake Yeager went on Piers Morgan's show,
and I am sad to report
that General Wesley Clark, whose son used
to be a colleague of ours here at TYT,
has completely lost his mind.
He seems to be somewhat in favor
of going to war with Iran.
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And so let's start off
with this first video, Jake,
where piers asks General Clark
about the plan to overthrow governments
in the Middle East on behalf of Israel,
because there have been quite a few
governments that have been overthrown with
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US intervention either boots on the ground
or by us literally arming, you know,
al Qaeda terrorists in Syria.
But nonetheless, let's see
how that conversation went down.
There was, of course, this,
this famous Pentagon memo,
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which you saw shortly after nine over 11.
You said it described a plan
to take out seven countries in five years,
beginning with Iraq, ending with Iran.
The other countries were Syria,
Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.
You know, some will look at this and say,
well, this is the fruition of the plan
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and Iran is the last one standing.
Lebanon, of course,
a bit more complicated, but the others
have all gone through regime change.
What would you say
to people that think that?
Well, I'd say that it's, that was over 20
years ago that that memo was written,
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and the US government doesn't
really have plans that extend that far.
That was your that was your point.
Like that was the proof to okay.
So what they're talking about is
something known as the Clean Break memo.
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It was a memo issued to Benjamin Netanyahu
by neocon members of our government
under the Bush administration.
They wrote this memo,
basically a blueprint.
Handed it over
to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
And it was a point by point plan
on which Middle Eastern countries,
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their leaders, would be overthrown,
specifically on behalf of Israel.
The idea was a clean break
from the culture of the Oslo Accords,
meaning trying to find an option
for peace with Palestinians trying
to move toward a two state solution.
It's like, no, no, no, forget that.
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Forget the Palestinians,
but also forget any idea that we wouldn't
pursue the Greater Israel Project.
We are going to pursue
the Greater Israel Project.
But first, we need to weaken
and destabilize
these Middle Eastern countries first.
So the Clean Break memo
starts with Iraq, ends with Iran.
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Go ahead Jake.
Yeah, it was heartbreaking to see General
Clark like that because when it appears
had him on, I didn't know that General
Clark had flipped and is now pro-war.
And so I was expecting him to say,
yeah, this is the exact memo.
This is exactly what they said
we were going to do.
And then we did do it
almost word for word.
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And now we're at the end of it.
There's no question about it.
And instead he was like, I don't know.
It was a long time ago,
but now I'm, you know, I don't know
if he's working for a defense contractor.
Am I impugning your motives?
Yes, I am, I want
to be super clear about that.
Okay.
Because that's not the same General Wesley
Clark I knew before General Wesley Clark
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was against war, okay?
And was not for fighting Israel's wars,
and he was adamant about it.
Now he's flipped.
Maybe.
Maybe we should fight Israel's wars.
It has no. And I challenge him later.
Maybe we get to those clips
to name an American interest in this war
could name a single one.
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Of course, there's no American interest
in this war at all.
So, guys, the there's two groups
of people now, people who have woken up
and realized that our government
is compromised by Israel
and people who are still in the old world,
and they're like, oh, golly gee,
that sounds anti-Semitic.
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I think we should.
I mean, I don't know why we're going
to war with Iran, but if Israel says
something, we should definitely go.
Otherwise, I'm an anti-Semite, right?
Or whatever,
or I'm getting paid or whatever it is.
Right?
But again, in that conversation,
the pulled out two different poles.
One is 70% of Americans
are against this war.
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The second one by YouGov is 85%
of Americans are against this war,
and 50%, I assume, are boomers
who watch television with nonstop
propaganda of we must go to war.
And every piece of that propaganda
is identical to Iraq.
They're not even trying
to change the playbook.
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And I'm watching right wing shows
and mainstream shows getting hooked.
Like, oh yeah, they might have
weapons of mass destruction.
I'm worried about a percentage
of uranium, right?
- Are you kidding me?
- Yeah.
I mean, look, if you're a normie,
you're among my favorite people.
Just.
It pains me to see normal people
get fooled by very obvious propaganda
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that's easily disproven.
So with that in mind,
let's see the very beginning of Jenks
showdown with General Wesley Clark.
I mean, I really respect General Clark.
I don't know what's happened to him.
That letter was very clear. They did.
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The neocons
and Israel first did execute it.
They have knocked out 6 to 7 of those
countries just like they said they would.
They've gone to Iran at the end,
just like they said they would.
If we're talking about a country that is
destabilizing the region and the world
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with endless wars, that country is Israel.
I mean, look,
this whole thing is topsy turvy.
The whole framing of the discussion
is ludicrous.
Israel has attacked seven
of its neighbors, not Iran.
Israel forced us into the Iraq war
and they said it would be easy
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and it was a disaster.
They said they were doing it
for the Iranian people.
And then we wound up killing
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
We lost thousands of our own men.
They the the fake weapons of mass
destruction evidence came
from where it came from, Israel.
They pushed us into the war with Libya.
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Now there's modern day slavery
back in Libya.
I just got to say something about
the laughing hyenas on screen, as Jake is
talking about American soldiers getting
slaughtered, fighting Israel's wars.
That's what they're looking forward to
when it comes to Iran.
Laughing hyenas. Absolutely disgusting.
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Absolutely dismissive of the fact
that we would be risking American lives
to fight this war on behalf of their,
you know, Israeli masters.
Anyway. Go ahead.
They're like, oh, we're going
to get them to fight for Israel.
- We're laughing at you, America.
- That's what it felt like there.
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And so I don't know if they think that
that's going to throw me off my game.
Please do more of that.
Please do more of that
because I want scones.
I want Americans to know
what you really think about them.
- I want them to know.
- Yeah.
So. Look, if the only thing I'm going
to say for now, we got more clips is that.
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Notice my decibel level?
Perfectly normal
until I start getting interrupted, right?
So that is real. First 101 is interrupt.
And so when you see me raise my decibel
level, it's only because someone's come in
and tried to stop what I'm saying because
they don't like what I'm saying at all.
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They thought they could contain it.
And one of the reasons they're most
angry at me and Tucker Carlson and Anna is
because they're like, you're supposed to
shut up when we call you an anti-Semite.
You're supposed to say everything
that Israel wants you to say
on television and on media.
Why are you guys disobeying?
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Well, we're disobeying on behalf
of those 85% of Americans
who don't want any piece of this war.
Let's take a look at how, General Clark
responded to what Jake was saying there.
Every war has cost us trillions.
Hold on, General Clark.
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Hold on.
They have cost us trillions of dollars.
And you know that.
And they have cost us blood and treasure.
And it's Israel doing it. General Clark.
Be a patriot. Be a patriot.
Stand up for America. Not for Israel.
I'm not going to go
to another war for Israel.
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We're not going to spend
trillions more for Israel.
We're not going
to lose America for Israel.
The Israelis have bought 90% of Congress.
The Israelis have bought Donald Trump.
And this is a fact.
And you guys keep obfuscating these facts.
Can we have some respect
for the general, please?
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I think he doesn't deserve to be screamed.
You should have respect for the American
people. 85% of whom do not want to go.
General Clark,
why are you pushing us into this war
when 85% of Americans don't want it?
And you yourself know that the neocons
have wanted this war for 20 years?
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Our interests. What interest?
Yeah.
And, you know, at one point
in the discussion or debate, General
Wesley Clark makes the argument that,
like what the neocons were
in the Bush administration,
then the Bush administration was gone,
Obama came in and the neocons were gone.
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No, no, this is what this is
what is meant by the deep state.
We're talking about
unelected federal operatives
that we don't even know about, right?
We don't elect them.
We don't hear about them.
We don't know exactly what they do.
They work for the intelligence community.
They work for various government agencies.
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They work in the Pentagon.
Those people don't change
from one administration to another.
And those unelected, shadowy figures
behind the scenes are the ones
who make decisions that we have no say on.
So like, again, the idea of like,
oh, yeah, you know, Obama came in
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and everything changed.
No it didn't. No it didn't.
We have continuity
from one administration to another
when it comes to foreign policy.
That's very obvious and clear.
- And that's when.
- I knew that General Clark was gone.
And again, that's just like I was kind
of devastated to see because, look,
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I remember Howard Dean and he was a brave
fighter and progressive populist, etc.
Back in 2004. Then he became a lobbyist.
Then he started going on Morning Joe
and saying,
oh, Big Pharma is right about everything
and corruption is not that big a deal.
And it was just humiliating to see.
So when General Clark said,
oh, you know, those were the neocons that
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we left behind in the Bush administration,
and we've had different.
But see, I know General Clark,
he's really smart.
So it's not like he doesn't know
the Israeli lobby is permanent.
The Israeli lobby
has been here the entire time.
They've given money to 94% of Congress.
And as I was saying,
their number one donor to Trump and Biden,
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Mike Johnson, Kim Jeffries, Chuck Schumer,
it's not like General Clark
doesn't know that for him to go, oh,
golly gee, the neocons and the
and the Israeli lobby, what are they?
I don't know what they are.
Come on, General Clark,
what are you doing?
What are you doing?
No paychecks worth that.
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