Ramsey Clark Defending Hussein
Posted on November 28, 2005
BBC
Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, an outspoken critic of the trial, was seated alongside the defence team.Mr Clark, 77, who flew in from the Jordanian capital Amman on Sunday, said he wanted to protect Saddam Hussein’s rights.
“A fair trial in this case is absolutely imperative for historical truth,” he told Reuters news agency.
The left-wing activist, who held office in the 1960s under President Lyndon Johnson, has previously described the special tribunal as a creation of the US military occupation.
To bolster the challenge, Mr. Hussein’s defense team was joined by Mr. Clark, the former American attorney general, who has a long and controversial history of offering legal advice to toppled foreign leaders, including the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic.NY Times
Mr. Clark doesn’t have that great of a success record, but he has a long history as an international lawyer practicing his favorite pastime, America bashing, and defending America’s enemies. In 1985, the former Chairman of the National Advisory Counsel of the ACLU, filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against his own country while defending Libya’s dictator, Qadaffi. In 1980, in the midst of the Iranian Hostage Crisis Ramsey flew to Tehran not to help the US hostages but to take part in a “Crimes in America” symposium.
There were whispers in Washington that during the Vietnam and Cold Wars, Clark may have leaked classified information to the North Vietnamese and the Soviets, but there was never an investigation conducted into these rumors, in spite of overwhelming evidence that Clark had and continues to have close ties to the Workers World Party, an admitted Stalinist group. Whenever there is genocide or atrocities — real atrocities — Clark is always on the case on behalf of the perpetrators including his work defending militias in Rwanda.
Clark is founder of the International Action Center, an organization linked to communist and socialist organizations throughout the world. He claims his group is the largest antiwar movement in the United States. He’s a vitriolic critic of US military actions around the globe, and he calls government officials “international outlaws,” accusing them of “killing innocent people because we don’t like their leader[s].”
Always there for America’s enemies, Clark has visited Iraq, North Vietnam, Serbia, and other countries to investigate the effects of American bombing and economic sanctions wherever they occur. About the Iraq sanctions, he said, “They’re like the neutron bomb, which is the most inspired of all weapons, because it kills the people and preserves the property, the wealth. So you get the wealth and you don’t have the baggage of the hungry, clamoring poor.” A true giant of liberal intellect, Clark never explained that statement to the unwashed masses. His usual speeches combine hyperbole with fantasy.
After the Gulf War, in 1991, Clark really went off the edge when he initiated a war-crimes tribunal, which tried and found guilty President George H. W. Bush and Generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, among others. Of course, the moron couldn’t figure out how to incarcerate the three defendants since the tribunal was composed of like-minded liberals who’d rather talk than fight — and talk and talk and talk.The Conservative Voice
Meanwhile, a defiant Saddam apparantly still thinks he is in power.
“I want you to order them, not ask them”, Mr. Hussein told the chief judge, Rizgar Mohammed Amin, who had said that he would ask the Americans to be more careful. Mr. Hussein continued, “You are an Iraqi. They are foreigners, and occupiers and invaders, so you must condemn them”.NY Times
After a short session during which the first testimony was read into the record, Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin adjourned the trial until Dec. 5 to allow time to find replacements for two defense lawyers who were slain and another who fled the country after he was wounded.ABC
There isn’t much doubt who will be applying for the position. What can I say about this man besides what a scumbucket he is? Let the record speak for itself. The only thing close to a compliment I can come up with is that he has the guts to say what many liberals are thinking, but are too coward to say. If ever there were a definition in the dictionary of scum and traitor, it should have this man’s photo beside it.
As a matter of fact, just today the U.S. Supreme Court passed up a case on the P.L.O.
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the lawyer for the PLO, told justices in the appeal last month that Ungar relatives have “commenced sweeping national and international efforts” to collect the millions of dollars, including an attempt to seize Palestine’s U.N. Mission building in New York.
Clark said U.S. courts “are marching off to the conflicts of the Middle East and elsewhere carrying with them the integrity of the U.S. judiciary and risking the foreign perception that U.S. courts will extend their jurisdiction globally deciding the most sensitive political questions affecting the foreign policies of the U.S. and other nations as they go.”
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I understand the people who have been murdering Saddam’s other attorneys are trying to kidnap Mr Clark so they can behead him.
Now that would be a shame wouldn’t it?
Okay, has someone bothered to tell Clark that his place in hell is pretty much secure, he doesn’t have to do any last minute crap like this to ensure he goes there?
Another common denominator is the spread of defeatism, since Clarke was a principal in pushing the Vietnam “timetable” and we all remember how well that went.
there is one thing that president bush needs to understand,is that he will never get away with the mass murdering, never will he get away