A recent photo of Ramsey Clark (or is it the late Susan Sontag? All these senile quislings look alike to me.)
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| 2004-12-29 | |
| Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark has joined the team of Jordan-based lawyers defending Saddam Hussein. Mr Clark - who held office in the 1960s under President Lyndon Johnson - said his principal concern was protecting the rights of the former Iraqi leader. Saddam Hussein this month saw a lawyer for the first time since his capture. Left-wing activist Mr Clark described the special tribunal established to try members of the former regime as a creation of the US military occupation. He said it had no authority in law as a criminal court. Mr Clark is joining a panel of about 20 prominent Arab and non-Arab lawyers who have volunteered to defend the former Iraqi leader. He is an outspoken critic of American foreign policy on Iraq and visited Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in February 2003 just before the US-led invasion. After leaving office in 1969, he became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. More recently, he has offered legal advice to numerous figures at odds with the US government including former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 A recent photo of Ramsey Clark (or is it the late Susan Sontag? All these senile quislings look alike to me.) |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-29 12:30:22 PM |
| #5 Why stop at "Rebel"? Why not refer to him as an "insurgent"? |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-12-29 11:04:28 AM |
| #4 Where was Clark then? writhing in ecstacy. Clark has long been a supporter of the worst of the worst. I'll celebrate his death just as I did Sontag's and later, Chomsky and Castro... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-29 9:42:16 AM |
| #3 This is becoming obscene. The number of 'people' rallying to this fiend's defence is unreal. It's very nice of the former AG to be concerned about the rights of that vile PoS, but what about those poor bastards they're still digging up from mass graves. Where was Clark then? I sincerely hope that the Iraqis start his trial early in January, pronounce sentence the day after the election, publicly hang him, burn his body and scatter his ashes on Iranian soil. Then maybe they can draw a line under that period of their history and move forward. DAMN! these vermin that think it's more important to care about a genocidal megalomaniac's 'rights' than the innocents that died under his bloody hand. I'm stopping now before I start using real swear words... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2004-12-29 9:23:57 AM |
| #2 Jeez, how could anybody have possibly seen this coming. I didn't even have to read the story to know who it was. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-12-29 9:10:44 AM |
| #1 Rebel? ROFL!!! BBC is becoming quite funny, as it disintegrates. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-29 9:03:35 AM |