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| Ramsey Clark: executing Saddam will unleash catastrophic violence |
| 2006-10-05 |
| Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general Do you have to keep bringing that up?who is one of Saddam Hussein's lawyers, said that any death sentence against the former Iraqi president would increase violence in the strife-torn country. "It seems clear that a guilty verdict will set off catastrophic violence" and that a death sentence would be even worse, Clark told a Washington press conference. "It's hard to know how many Iraqis, dozens, hundreds, thousands, will die because of the sentence," he said. A date for a verdict in the crimes against humanity trial against Saddam and seven co-accused, which opened in October, 2005, is due to be set soon after the trial resumes on October 16. If Saddam is found guilty and sentenced to death, Iraqi law lays down that he should be executed within 30 days, said Clark. The US attorney general from 1967-69 reaffirmed his belief that the court is illegal because it was set up only to try Saddam. He criticised the judges because they were "selected, trained, paid, protected by the United States." Which is the real reason. He will oppose anything the US supports or does. Saddam and his co-defendants, including a half brother Barzan al-Tikriti, are on trial for a crackdown on a Shiite town of Dujail following an assassination attempt in 1982. He faces a separate trial for genocide against Iraq's Kurdish minority in the 1988 Anfal campaign. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #10 As the doc told my sainted mother when I swallowed the nickles, "This too shall pass." |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-10-05 23:49 |
| #9 My memory is a bit hazy... but there was this place and time where they executed defence lawyers together with their client if they plead innocence and lost their case. It was presumed that the lawyer knew well that the accused is not innocent if the evidence led to a conviction. Or maybe it was doctors in ancient China...if a patient got sick and died of sickness it was considered doctor's fault and the doctor was sent to follow the patient. A doctor was paid when his patients were healthy, not when they were sick. Maybe it was both, lawyers and doctors. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-10-05 23:27 |
| #8 Ramsey Clark needs to be whacked - either by an IED or a "crossfire". He's more of a waste of oxygen consumption than the man that appointed him (JC), and that takes some doing. I regret that either of them are citizens of the United States. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-10-05 23:25 |
| #7 On the other hand, executing Ramsey Clark might unleash catastrophic euphoria. |
| Posted by: Infidel Bob 2006-10-05 23:16 |
| #6 "Ramsey Clark: executing Saddam will unleash catastrophic violence" With any luck, starting with HIM. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-05 23:00 |
| #5 PT, I suppose it's too much to hope for a big flinch and a stray bullet on that day... |
| Posted by: Grunter 2006-10-05 22:55 |
| #4 I thought he was AG in the 77-79 years. Whatever, Ramsey needs to stand by his man at the firing squad day. |
| Posted by: Phineter Thraviger1073 2006-10-05 22:14 |
| #3 So you're reduced to this ploy, eh, Ramsey? Let's face it, Ramsey. You're probably the worst fuckin lawyer on the planet. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-10-05 22:11 |
| #2 So you're reduced to this ploy, eh, Ramsey? Let's face it, Ramsey. You're probably the worst fuckin lawyer on the planet. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-10-05 22:10 |
| #1 Yeah, mebbe, but would anyone complain if someone wacked Ramsey Clark? I know I risk the wrath of AoS, but it's 'sposed to be funny.... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-10-05 21:45 |