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Iraq-Jordan
Demonized Dictator or Demented Defender?
2005-01-07
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark who recently announced he's joining Saddam Hussein's legal team is now explaining his decision, insisting that Americans have demonized Saddam, and "one of the greatest barriers to peace is demonization."
Clark specifically condemns images of Saddam from prison, saying, "The savage presentation of [Saddam], disheveled, with his mouth open, people probing in his mouth, the dehumanization ... this is hardly the road to peace if you want respect for human dignity."
I would have preferred a picture of him hanging by a piano wire, but that's just me.
Clark adds, "In presence [Saddam] is reserved, quiet, thoughtful dignified, you might say, in the old-fashioned sense."
"I'm John F. Kerry, Ramsey Clark supported me, and I approve of this................he said what?."
Posted by:Steve

#11  Clark really was AG under President Johnson. In fact, he was the AG, J. Edgar Hoover's boss, at the time of the original COINTELPRO operation to discredit anti-war activists and when MLK and Robert Kennedy were assasinated in 1968. These are, of course, staples of the Moonbat conspiracy industry.
Clark should by all rights be the prime suspect in these conspiracies, but he is somehow never mentioned.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2005-01-07 11:15:23 PM  

#10  "one of the greatest barriers to peace is demonization."

I would have thought dumping your citizens in mass graves, gassing minorities and warring with your neighbors was a barrier to peace. But what do I know? I'm just a simple American.

Was Ramsey Clark really the Attorney General or is that just a drug-addled remembrance from the 60's?
Posted by: SteveS   2005-01-07 9:23:23 PM  

#9  ..insisting that Americans have demonized Saddam,..

I don't suppose any of the barbarity that occurred on his long watch (not to mention the things that happened with his approval) had anything to do with that......did it?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-01-07 6:53:09 PM  

#8  Oh man I feel so sorry for Ramsey. He will cry like Boxer when they send Saddam to the gallows. Hopefully the trial will last until the mid-term elections so all the LLL politicians can voice their strong opposition to the hanging of the tyrant Saddam. Can you say 70-seat majority?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-01-07 6:28:40 PM  

#7  And sometimes Unca Joe would call up folks and let them know they were safe...... sometimes they were.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-07 5:46:20 PM  

#6  "In presence [Saddam] is reserved, quiet, thoughtful dignified, you might say, in the old-fashioned sense."

Well, in the old fashioned sense of Stalin maybe. Smiling Uncle Joe killed millions in a dignified, quiet kind of way.

Clark, you are an idiot.
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-01-07 5:37:46 PM  

#5  Hanging from a gibbet with crows eating his eyes is my personal favorite vision of Sammy...
Posted by: mojo   2005-01-07 5:20:23 PM  

#4  Go ahead and dig Ramsey - take the whole damn left down with you.
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-07 4:57:12 PM  

#3  Sweet Slogan but it's idealistic BS.

What If I demonized Satan or Hitler, I don't see how I'm stopping peace.
Posted by: Jolulet Jeting8442   2005-01-07 4:55:55 PM  

#2  Reminds me of the Hell-ywood leftists after returning from sucking Castro's, um, cigar...
Posted by: Hyper   2005-01-07 4:54:02 PM  

#1  Believe me, Ramsey, you don't have to explain yourself. It was a foregone conclusion you'd slither on your belly into Baghdad eventually.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-07 4:42:43 PM  

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