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Saddam trial judge ejects Ramsey Clark
Reuters ^ | 11/05/2006 | Reuters

Posted on 11/05/2006 11:44:04 AM PST by JRochelle

BAGHDAD, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others on charges of crimes against humanity ejected former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark from the court on Sunday for insulting the tribunal.

Clark, who heads an international team of lawyers involved in the defence, was ejected at the start of a hearing at which Saddam and two aides were convicted and sentenced to death.

The judge, Raouf Abdul Rahman, ejected Clark because he had sent a memo to Abdul Rahman including the accusation that the tribunal was making "a mockery of justice".

The judge told him in Arabic: "No, you are the mockery ... get him out, out."

Abdul Rahman then shouted in English: "Out! Out!"

"You come from America and ridicule the Iraqi people," he said.

Clark had earlier said the trial was politically influenced, and that if Saddam were sentenced to death, it would be "victors' justice".


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communist; ramseyclark; saddamite; saddamverdict; traitor
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What a pathetic fool he is.
1 posted on 11/05/2006 11:44:05 AM PST by JRochelle
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To: JRochelle

"Nobody... wants... to play with me..." *sniff*

2 posted on 11/05/2006 11:46:03 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: JRochelle

"YOU are the mockery" - Classic.


3 posted on 11/05/2006 11:46:18 AM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: JRochelle

What's the scoop on this guy? He's the son of a supreme court justice - Tom Clark, who agreed to step down in exchange for Ramsey becoming Attorney General during the Johnson administration. Soon after that he went kinda goofy, to say the least.


4 posted on 11/05/2006 11:46:27 AM PST by Freedom4US (u)
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To: JRochelle

The judge should have found the old crackpot in contempt of court and sentenced him to 30 days--and made him spend it in the same cell with Saddamned.


5 posted on 11/05/2006 11:47:02 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: JRochelle

It's hard to believe that old Bolshevik is still alive, but then again, the Devil takes care of his own.


6 posted on 11/05/2006 11:47:08 AM PST by appleharvey
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To: JRochelle

I'd love to see a video of this exchange. Does one exist?

APf


7 posted on 11/05/2006 11:48:21 AM PST by APFel (You too can take Dylan Thomas out of context! Ask me how!)
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To: Caipirabob

I never realized he looks a tad like Randy Quaid.


8 posted on 11/05/2006 11:48:30 AM PST by plain talk
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To: JRochelle

This mornings thread said the Iraqi prosecutor is considering charging Clark for disrupting the court and insulting the judge.


9 posted on 11/05/2006 11:49:34 AM PST by ASA Vet (3.03)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

see #9


10 posted on 11/05/2006 11:50:23 AM PST by ASA Vet (3.03)
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To: JRochelle
"victors' justice".

Is there any other kind? What kind of "justice" is the Justice of the Conquered?

11 posted on 11/05/2006 11:50:39 AM PST by IronJack
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To: JRochelle
Ramsey Clark......Attorney General of the UNITED STATES of America in the Johnson administration......a SOCIALIST, an activist, an EX-Marine, a disgrace, but most of all....

a "DEMOCRAT".

12 posted on 11/05/2006 11:51:03 AM PST by PISANO
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To: JRochelle

--unfortunately, he won't be going to the gallows with Saddam--


13 posted on 11/05/2006 11:51:27 AM PST by rellimpank (-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: Freedom4US

"What's the scoop on this guy? He's the son of a supreme court justice - Tom Clark, who agreed to step down[so Lyndon Johnson could appoint Thurgood Marshall to the supreme court] in exchange for Ramsey becoming Attorney General during the Johnson administration. [He was already around the bend] Soon after that he went kinda goofy, to say the least.


14 posted on 11/05/2006 11:51:34 AM PST by billhilly
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To: JRochelle
[Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman] told him in Arabic: "No, you are the mockery ... get him out, out."

How many judges in America are going, "doh! why didn't I say that?"

15 posted on 11/05/2006 11:52:26 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prayers for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub. Brian, we're all pulling for you!)
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To: Freedom4US

I did not trust him way back then and nothing has changed my opinion since then.


16 posted on 11/05/2006 11:52:32 AM PST by MamaB (mom to an Angel)
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To: JRochelle
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To: Freedom4US; JRochelle; Caipirabob; weegee; MIchaelTArchangel; appleharvey

Clark's pro-tyranny stance has been so consistent over the past 38 years that it actually embarrasses many leftists, though only in private (Lenin forbid that they would break solidarity in public).

Besides his work on behalf of Saddam, Castro, Chavez, and the North Vietnamese, he was Ayatollah Khomeini's personal lawyer during the embassy hostage taking in 1979, and has represented cult freak Lyndon LaRouche.

It has not always been so. During his tenure as LBJ's Attorney General, Clark presided over the original "COINTELPRO" program to harrass anti-war activists and was the legal brain behind many of LBJ's more questionable actions.

Most interestingly, he was AG at the time of the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations in 1968, J. Edgar Hoover's boss for any practical purpose. Left-wing conspiracy theorists have implicated practically everyone who was in government at the time in the assassinations. They have even accused Richard Nixon, who was still a private citizen in 1968.
The notable exception to this avalanche of suspicion is also the most obvious suspect, Clark himself. Why does he get a pass from conspiracy buffs, beyond the simple loyalty of one depraved leftist for another?

This suggests a conspiracy hypothesis of my own: A major leftist, perhaps a journalist, somehow found the smoking gun of Clark's involvement before legitimate investigators did, and decided to use it to blackmail him into supporting "progressive" causes. Clark's u-turn to the far left started almost literally on the day he left office. Remember that many of the most prominent traitors in those days were quite young and they could easily be pulling Clark's strings to this day.
Maybe Clark's stupidly dogmatic anti-Americanism is really a strangled cry for help but the media themselves are too stupid, or complicit, to recognize it.


18 posted on 11/05/2006 11:53:44 AM PST by atomic conspiracy (Death to terrorists, death to traitors, death to (draw the obvious conclusion))
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Contempt of court would have been appropriate for that contemptible old f*rt. He's done nothing but delay the course of justice in this trial.


19 posted on 11/05/2006 11:53:57 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: APFel

Here is a link to some pics by AP.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/052205saddamphotos/im:/061105/ids_photos_wl/r4221082219.jpg;_ylt=AtuY0iBV354OaAVXMDmN9trlWMcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--


20 posted on 11/05/2006 11:53:57 AM PST by JRochelle (Duncan Hunter 2008!)
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To: Freedom4US

About the time time of the VN anti-war movement there was this little drug going around. It was legal then.

It was called Osley after the one of the best producers (Stanley Osley).

Today it is called by the 1st letters of its chemical name - LSD.

Who knows if he tasted the dreams.


21 posted on 11/05/2006 11:54:12 AM PST by Prost1 (Fair and Unbiased as always!)
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To: plain talk

Clark and Quaid combined still don't amount to the iq of a pencil eraser.


22 posted on 11/05/2006 11:54:16 AM PST by el_texicano (Liberals, Socialist, DemocRATS, all touchy, feely, mind numbed robots, useless idiots all)
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To: JRochelle

LOL! That's priceless!


23 posted on 11/05/2006 11:54:26 AM PST by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: JRochelle

Look at the caption - they are calling it a "U.S. sponsored court."


24 posted on 11/05/2006 11:55:29 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: JRochelle
Saddam gets the Rope - Ramsey gets ejected from court.

What better a day could one possibly have?
25 posted on 11/05/2006 11:56:33 AM PST by roaddog727 (BullS##t does not get bridges built)
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To: JRochelle
"You come from America and ridicule the Iraqi people,"

Must be some place on earth he is welcome. Can't think of it right now.

26 posted on 11/05/2006 11:57:55 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA)
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To: JRochelle

27 posted on 11/05/2006 11:59:04 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: billhilly
I don't recall exactly if LBJ used Ramsay Clark to get Marshall on the court, or just wanted to get rid of Thomas Clark. Either way, he knew that if he let it out that he wanted Ramsay Clark for AG, the father would step down so as not to hinder his son's career. It worked for LBJ but Ramsay Clark must have known he was being used, and his own ambition had ended his father's career. His tenure as AG was mediocre and unmemorable. He was predictably weaselly and squishy on crime, and achieved no notable successes. Ever since then he has been a twisted sickie, blending right in with the bulk of leftwing crackpots.
28 posted on 11/05/2006 11:59:21 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: JRochelle

A double hanging on Pay-per-view could sure help the U.S. cover the cost of the Iraq war. Ramsey's demise would be no big loss. It would probably make the world "a better place."


29 posted on 11/05/2006 12:02:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop the DemocRATS' Jihad against America! Vote Republican on November 7th!!!!)
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To: JRochelle

Looking forward to seeing those giant headlines at the NYT.


30 posted on 11/05/2006 12:03:51 PM PST by fish hawk
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To: JRochelle

justice would be finding Ramsey Clarke in a Baghdad ditch


31 posted on 11/05/2006 12:05:10 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69

Justice would be putting razor blades inside the rope so Saddam could be hung and beheaded simultaneously. Ramsey should be left alive until he can't care for himself, then a few years longer.


32 posted on 11/05/2006 12:11:20 PM PST by billhilly
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To: JRochelle

What a idiot


33 posted on 11/05/2006 12:28:26 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Interesting theory- it is quite a departure going from prosecuting the Boston Five (Benjamin Spock, William Sloan Coffin, etc) for anti-war activities to founding A.N.S.W.E.R. .


34 posted on 11/05/2006 12:33:51 PM PST by fat city (What part of cognitive dissonance don't you understand?)
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To: JRochelle

This judge has more moxy than most American journalists who cover Clark, that hatefilled piece of filth.


35 posted on 11/05/2006 12:36:13 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: fish hawk
Looking forward to seeing those giant headlines at the NYT.

In other news, Hell is expected to freeze over soon.

36 posted on 11/05/2006 12:37:28 PM PST by vox humana
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To: atomic conspiracy
I like your theory. If even remotely true, it would
explain alot. Alas, we will probably never know
the truth this side of Glory.
37 posted on 11/05/2006 12:39:31 PM PST by MOX (I don't need no stinkin tagline)
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To: Allegra
All in all this trial is progressing very nicely; Saddam is to be hung and Clark may well be strung up too!

And to think all this happened while I slept peacefully in my bed.

Yawn....
38 posted on 11/05/2006 12:40:34 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: JRochelle
Saddam trial judge ejects Ramsey Clark

The headline I'd like to see:

United States ejects Ramsey Clark

Or...

Human race ejects Ramsey Clark

39 posted on 11/05/2006 12:43:58 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("Don't be a Nancy Boy, Vote Republican!")
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To: Caipirabob

Would ya just look at that tired old marxist ambulance chaser? Crawling off like a whipped dog to his next briefing with Soros.


40 posted on 11/05/2006 12:45:27 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: atomic conspiracy
"J. Edgar Hoover's boss for any practical purpose."

J. Edgar didn't have a boss. That's because he had files on everybody, including Clark.

41 posted on 11/05/2006 12:50:36 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: JRochelle

The fact he was a General in any way,shape,manner, or form,should scare the wits out anyone!With the exception of his well known'Friends'.He had a TOP SECRET clearence also.Very scary person.


42 posted on 11/05/2006 12:51:32 PM PST by xarmydog
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To: Freedom4US

He is an AmerINO.


43 posted on 11/05/2006 12:54:26 PM PST by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: hinckley buzzard

"...former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark..."

I nominate that this standard biographic phrase included in all stories about his repulsive antics be corrected to describe him as

"...Democrat and former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark..."



44 posted on 11/05/2006 12:58:17 PM PST by leftcoaster
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To: PISANO

A man deserving of an unmarked grave...


45 posted on 11/05/2006 1:08:11 PM PST by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: atomic conspiracy
Atomic, you suggested re Ramsey Clark...Maybe Clark's stupidly dogmatic anti-Americanism is really a strangled cry for help...

Respectfully, I disagree.

The more likely case is that he was simply a "sleeper".

It might be more than interesting to read his FBI file, might'nt it?

.

46 posted on 11/05/2006 1:10:27 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Caipirabob

Ramsey Clark is the reason that NO democrat should ever be elected president!

Mark


47 posted on 11/05/2006 1:24:52 PM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: Seaplaner
The more likely case is that he was simply a "sleeper".

It might be more than interesting to read his FBI file, might'nt it?

That's another good possibility. He was definitely a red diaper baby. His father, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, was a noted liberal, leaning toward the far left. Harry Truman is said to have remarked that appointing the elder Clark to the Court was the worst mistake he ever made.

48 posted on 11/05/2006 1:32:33 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (Death to terrorists, death to traitors, death to (draw the obvious conclusion))
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To: JRochelle
What a pathetic fool he is.

Yep former Attorney General too. I guess we are not allowed to mention which party though, wouldn't be appropriate.

49 posted on 11/05/2006 1:56:15 PM PST by itsahoot (If the GOP does not do something about immigration, immigration will do something about the GOP)
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To: JRochelle

If only America could do the same.


50 posted on 11/05/2006 1:59:07 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic is that the Free Clinic knows how to stop a leak.)
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