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In declaring the U.S. could not win in Iraq, DNC chairman Howard Dean also blamed the U.S. invasion for bringing Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to the country, saying, "We need a force in the Middle East, not in Iraq but in a friendly neighboring country to fight Zarqawi, who came to Iraq after this invasion."In fact, Zarqawi has long been understood to have arrived in Iraq nearly a year before the U.S. invasion, where he received treatment for a leg injury sustained in Afghanistan. He is thought to have associated with the Ansar al-Islam terror group in northern...

Take a close look and there is something downright suspicious about former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, now the darling of certain sectors of the radical left. His journey has taken him from the heights of federal power to outer orbits of the political fringe. In the process, he has seemingly transformed from a shill for the most corrupt elements of the US elites to a shill for any foreign despot who claims to oppose the US elites. Who is Ramsey Clark really working for? Dynasty of Mediocrity Ramsey Clark was born to power. In 1945, the Clark family made its...

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived in Baghdad to aid in Saddam's defense. Clark has been advising nearly a dozen international lawyers on Saddam's defense team. Clark contends that since the troops that originally flushed Saddam out of his rat hole failed to read him his Miranda rights, the case against him must be thrown out. Clark further argued that jailers who inspected Saddam for lice conducted an illegal search. “The way in which Saddam has been treated is an affront to civilized standards,” said Clark. “Saddam isn’t the one on trial here. America is.” Clark also cited the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 5 - Amid the wrenching testimony of a survivor who told of the atrocities wrought by Saddam Hussein's secret police, the presence of a former American attorney general on Mr. Hussein's defense team in the trial court on Monday seemed to be one of the day's less bewildering things. Ramsey Clark, one of America's more renowned contrarians, made a mark notable even by his own singular standards on Monday when he delivered a lecture to the judges on the elements essential to a fair trial, including adequate physical protection for the defense lawyers. Earlier, flushed and indignant,...

Saddam Hussein's lawyer, Ramsey Clark, has yet to present his defense against allegations that the Iraqi dictator used gruesome torture techniques and mass executions to keep his people in line. But two years ago, Clark was claiming that brutality charges against the Butcher of Baghdad had simply been made up. Asked about an eyewitness account of the torture death of an Iraqi dissident who was eaten alive by dogs while Saddam watched, Clark told KTTH Seattle radio host Mike Siegel, "That's the most absurd story I've heard in a long time." "Propaganda can be pretty vicious," he warned.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein told the judge at his trial Monday that "I am not afraid of execution" during an unruly court session in which the first witness took the stand and testified that the former president's agents carried out random arrests, torture and killings. The outburst was one of several by Saddam or his co-defendants at the trial that also saw a brief walkout by his defense lawyers. At one point, Saddam appeared to threaten the judge, saying: "When the revolution of the heroic Iraq arrives, you will be held accountable." Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin replied: "This...

Click for video BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's defense team staged a brief walkout Monday, the former president railed at the judge, and the first witness took the stand to testify that Saddam's agents carried out random arrests, torture and killings in an Iraqi village as the unruly trial resumed. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who is helping represent Saddam, spoke on behalf of the deposed president, saying he needed only two minutes to present his argument. But Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin at first said only Saddam's chief lawyer could speak. Amin said the defense should submit...

ALARM - the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein begins again in Baghdad BAGHDAD - the lawsuit of Iraqi president deposed Saddam Hussein and seven of her lieutenants for the massacre of villager Shiites took again Monday in front of a court of Baghdad, noted a journalist of AFP.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's defense team walked out of the courtroom Monday shortly after the former leader's trial resumed because the judge refused to allow former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to challenge the tribunal's legitimacy in an address to the court. After the lawyers walked out, Saddam told the judge: "You are imposing lawyers on us. They are imposed lawyers. The court is imposed by itself. We reject that." Clark said he needed only two minutes to present his argument. But Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin said the tribunal had been established under the law by an...

A FORMER American attorney-general advising Saddam Hussein’s legal team has helped to map out a defence strategy that includes prolonging the ousted dictator’s trial. Ramsey Clark, 77, who has pursued a career as a human rights lawyer since serving under President Lyndon Johnson from 1967-69, met Saddam last week. They discussed stalling the proceedings by inviting a new international lawyer to take part or by challenging the legitimacy of prosecution witnesses, many of whom have insisted on anonymity and will be screened off from the court. Khalil al-Duleimi, Saddam’s top lawyer, said the meeting took place on Monday after Clark...

International Law: Everyone has the right to an attorney. But as Ramsey Clark rushes to the side of Saddam Hussein, this may be a case where both the defendant and his counsel can plead insanity...."Clark has been using and aiding mass murders and other American enemies for the last 30 years," conservative pundit David Horowitz said in 2003 of a Clark trip in Iraq. "He should give it a rest." But that is unlikely. ...Clark has defended the who's who of mass murderers — not just Milosevic, but also Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, also accused of war crimes, as...

All must agree that Saddam Hussein is entitled to the best legal defense team, and that it is a very special responsibility of the Coalition authorities to provide cast-iron protection to those who undertake the task. (This remains true even if, as is strongly implied in a Nov. 29 article by John Burns in the New York Times, Saddam and his lawyers have been caught hinting at involuntary changes in the composition of the prosecution team.) But the phrase "best defense" and the name "Ramsey Clark" do not have the same apposition as, say, peaches and cream. Clark used to...

The media is buzzing about Ramsey Clark going to Iraq to serve on the defense team of Saddam Hussein. Every article called Clark “the former US Attorney General” and played up his role in the administration of an American President. Reuters called Clark a “U.S. civil rights lawyer”. The BBC called Clark “an outspoken critic of the trial” and a “left wing activist”. The New York Times did make mention of Ramsey Clark’s penchant for “offering legal advice to toppled foreign leaders”. According to the AP, Clark was just a “consultant” on Milosevic’s trial. Ramsey Clark is so much more...

AMMAN, Jordan - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Tuesday he met with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and found him in "extremely good spirits" even though the former president is isolated from friends and family. ADVERTISEMENT Clark said he was having lunch Monday in Baghdad, where he attended Saddam's resumed trial for alleged crimes against humanity, when he was told he could meet Saddam. He was alone with Saddam for a while before two soldiers joined them for the remainder of their meeting, which lasted about an hour. Clark declined to say who offered the meeting with Saddam,...

When former Attorney General Ramsey Clark isn’t defending Saddam Hussein, or giving speeches for the crypto-Stalinist International ANSWER, he’s acting as counsel for the Palestine Liberation Organization, trying to prevent families of murdered Jews from collecting on judgments against the PLO. Today he lost:... WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn a $116 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization in the deaths of a Jewish couple near the West Bank. The PLO, and its governmental entity, had been sued in federal court in Rhode Island over the 1996 drive-by shooting of Yaron Ungar, an American citizen, and...

The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed after a five-week recess granted to give Saddam's lawyers a chance to prepare his defense. When the trial reconvened, sitting at the defense table were Saddam's lawyers, former Qatari Justice Minister Najib al-Nueimi and the newest member of the defense team, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Saddam is charged with crimes against humanity. Iraqi prosecutors decided to begin with the 1982 killing of 140 Shi'ites rounded up and murdered at Saddam's personal direction following an assassination attempt against him. Neither Clark nor al-Nueimi has been officially recognized by the court as legal counsel....

Really all that anyone needs to know about Ramsey Clark’s mindset in dashing off to Iraq to defend Saddam Hussein can be summed up by one sentence written as part of a profile of the former attorney general of the United States of America: “After a failed bid for the Senate in 1976, Clark abandoned government service and set out to provide legal defense to victims of oppression.” Since that time, Mr. Clark has been outspoken in his belief that the United States government is a force for terror, oppression and murder. He has shown up at anti-war and anti-American...

ALARM - Beginning of the audience in the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein BAGHDAD - the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein and her seven co-defendants took again Monday in front of the High Iraqi penal court in Baghdad, after five weeks of suspension, noted a journalist of AFP.

NEWS ANALYSIS Ramsey Clark to the Rescue in Iraq: Maybe By Jim Kouri Nov 27, 2005 Ramsey Clark never met an enemy of America he didn't like. As the world prepares for the war crimes trial of the Butcher of Baghdad, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, none other than Ramsey "America is Evil" Clark is on the case -- at least he hopes he'll be on the case. Clark wants to join the legions of attorneys trying to save one of history's most brutal and vicious dictators. The hero of the American left rides again, this time into Iraq. To be...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants resumes in a fortified Baghdad courtroom on Monday with former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark joining the team defending Iraq's overthrown president. Clark, a controversial figure who was the top U.S. attorney in the late 1960s before becoming an anti-Vietnam war activist and a defender of figures including Slobodan Milosevic, said he hoped to strengthen Saddam's defense. "Our plan is to go to court in Baghdad on Monday morning representing the defense counsel as defense support," Clark told Reuters in Amman on Sunday before flying to the Iraqi capital...

Clark Arrives to Assist Saddam Defense Iraqi police arrested eight Sunni Arabs in the northern city of Kirkuk for allegedly plotting to assassinate the investigating judge who prepared the case against Saddam Hussein, a senior police commander said Sunday. The announcement came as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived in Baghdad, airport officials said, apparently to aid in Saddam's defense. Meanwhile, an Iraqi police commander said four aid workers, including two Canadians and a Briton, were kidnapped. Brig. Hussein Kamal, the deputy interior minister for intelligence, refused to discuss any details. Clark has been advising nearly a dozen international...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi police arrested eight Sunni Arabs in the northern city of Kirkuk for allegedly plotting to assassinate the investigating judge who prepared the case against Saddam Hussein, a senior police commander said Sunday. The announcement came as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived in Baghdad, airport officials said, apparently to aid in Saddam's defense. Clark has been advising nearly a dozen international lawyers on Saddam's defense team. He has contended that Saddam's rights have been violated in the legal process following his capture. But a U.S. government official close to the court said the defense...

MIDI - TICKET TO RIDE Hello, our friend, Ramsey Clark...how are you today? Saddam is needing your help...I think right away We'll buy your ticket to fly-y We'll buy your ticket to fly-y-y We'll buy your ticket to fly...do not delay It seems another defense attorney's been whacked Saddam is pleading to you...it's time to come back We'll buy your ticket to fly-y We'll buy your ticket to fly-y-y We'll buy your ticket to fly...do not delay We know he's a mass-murdering slime But there are rules...he gets a chance to be heard For you to just sit home...

Thousands of protesters staged rallies on Wednesday across the United States against the policies of President George W. Bush, including the war in Iraq and response to Hurricane Katrina. The World Can't Wait organization, a coalition of groups formed recently to stage the rallies, used the anniversary of Bush's re-election to call for his resignation in protests that took place in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago. In New York, students walked out of schools and colleges and joined other supporters as thousands rallied in Union Square before marching nearly 2 miles to Times Square...

Hot off the digital camera, pictures of the action today at Union Square. A communist front organization, The World Can't Wait, sponsored and organized today's protest. The theme was RESIST OR DIE: DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME. There were a few of us there counter-protesting as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesofperfection/sets/1279186/ Also here are pictures from the Support our Troops and their Mission weekend in DC in September.

In its e-mail endorsing the antiwar rally held in Washington, D.C. over the weekend, Moveon.org took the unusual step of notifying its 3.5 million members that though it wanted people to attend the event, it had “disagreements on a range of issues” with the organizers. What the e-mail left curiously unanswered was what exactly constitutes the “range of issues” with which they disagree. Could it be spearheading the cause of Nazi war criminals? Or playing defense for the likes of other war criminals, including Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein? Or serving as defense attorney for one of bin Laden’s top...

Stop the war. Impeach Bush. Destroy Israel. Remember Katrina. And don’t forget Florida and Ohio... Ramsey Clark, the attorney general of the United States from 1967 to 1969, was talking about the old days. Standing backstage at the antiwar rally held in Washington Saturday, Clark said images of National Guard troops trying to impose order in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina reminded him of the problems the Justice Department faced handling rioters in Detroit, and Watts, and other cities in the '60s. "There were looters," Clark said of those riots. "People wanted to shoot looters. At that time, we said,...

The phony peaceniks who protested in Washington Saturday's demonstration in Washington, in favor of immediate withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq, was the product of an opportunistic alliance between two other very disparate "coalitions." Here is how the New York Times (after a front-page and an inside headline, one of them reading "Speaking Up Against War" and one of them reading "Antiwar Rallies Staged in Washington and Other Cities") described the two constituenciess of the event: The protests were largely sponsored by two groups, the Answer Coalition, which embodies a wide range of progressive political objectives, and United for Peace...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ramsey Clark, Attorney General in the LBJ administration from 1967 to 1969, addressing an anti-war rally in the Capitol today, called for the replacement of President George W. Bush by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the deposed President of Haiti. Saying Aristide would be a better President of the United States than Bush, Clark called for the impeachment of President Bush.

"Iraqi resistance earns world's respect" [DATED SEPT. 22]... http://www.workers.org/2005/world/resistance-0929/ SEPT. 24TH Images from "anti-war" should read "anti-American" demonstrations... http://www.aim.org/images/protest_sept_24_1.jpg http://www.aim.org/images/protest_sept_24_2.jpg I WATCHED C-SPAN'S COVERAGE OF YESTERDAY'S PROTEST AND LISTENED TO MOST OF THE SPEAKERS. RAMSEY CLARK, JESSICA LANGE AND CINDY SHEEHAN WERE ABOUT THE ONLY ANGLICAN-AMERICANS, THE REST WERE MUSLIM-AMERICANS, AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND OTHERS. THEIR COMMON THEME WAS ANTI-AMERICAN, CALLING ALL OF US RACIST, IMPERIALISTS AND UNCARING CAPITALISTS. THEY EMPHASIZED THEIR "SUPPORT THE TROOPS," BUT NOT "THE WAR ON TERROR." THEIR MOST VOCAL DISPLAY OF HATRED, PUNCTUATED WITH PROFANITY, WAS TOWARD OUR PRESIDENT AND HIS SUPPORTERS, CALLING ALL OF US, INCLUDING...

The groups gathering in Washington this weekend to protest President Bush and the war in Iraq have ties to radical left-wing groups and communist organizations and have enjoyed the support of the left's biggest financial supporter, George Soros. United for Peace and Justice (UPJ) and International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) are the two main organizers of the weekend of events -- the first major public protest allowed to surround the White House in more than 10 years -- and expect 100,000 people from dozens of smaller left-wing and liberal organizations. A highlight of Saturday, the...

Tracking Down A Fifth Column FrontBy Edward ImmlerFrontPageMagazine.com | September 18, 2002 Vietnam-era anti-war protestors continue their demonstrating today, most recently in San Francisco against a potential Iraq war, but the sponsorship, partnerships, and funding of these groups raise questions about their real purpose. They are very organized, have a significant Internet presence, and actively raise large amounts of money. This all started when I saw the name of a protest group listed in an AP wire story. I wondered a bit about this and tried to find out about this group via the Internet. I found that I could...

Wife and daughters of Tariq Aziz in tears as they tell our correspondent of their first prison reunion IT WAS their first meeting in 28 months, and the family of Tariq Aziz, 69, wept as they described their reunion in an American prison outside Baghdad this week with the man who served for more than a decade as the public face of Saddam Hussein’s regime. “He looked like he had turned 80,” his wife, Violette, told The Times. “He was frail and too tired to walk, even inside the small meeting room. He had to lean against his American military...

SFSU Hosts a TerroristBy Lee KaplanFrontPageMagazine.com | May 2, 2005 Lynne Stewart “Why can’t we get anyone but criminals to come here to SFSU and speak?” Robert Journey, treasurer of San Francisco State University College Republicans asked rhetorically as five members of the campus club met to attend a lecture by Lynne Stewart. The terrorist lawyer, who billed herself as a “Civil Rights Lawyer and Political Prisoner,” was recently convicted of conspiracy and for passing along fatwas (Islamic religious edicts) from Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to his terrorist followers in Egypt’s Islamic Group. Rahman is the blind sheikh responsible for...

Are there any legal minds here who can clearly explain why the USA-hating left wing Ramsey Clark is allowed to defend Hussein and why he is not charged with treason or sedition? Is he a US citizen? Does he still reside in America? Anyone up to date on this man's activities?

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA

AMMAN, Jordan - Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer quit the Iraqi dictator's legal team, saying Thursday some of the team's American members were trying to run the defense and soft-pedal the U.S. occupation of the country. Ziad al-Khasawneh also told The Associated Press that Saddam's eldest daughter, Raghad, favors the Americans and non-Arabs on the defense team "because she thinks they will win the case and free her father." Al-Khasawneh said he tendered his resignation in a telephone call Tuesday to Saddam's wife, Sajida, who is believed to be in Yemen. "I told her I was resigning because some American lawyers...

Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general has given a limited endorsement of Judge Harry A. Blackmun, President Nixon's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. "I've seen nothing to this point to indicate that he is not qualified," Mr. Clark said last night in a statement.

WASHINGTON -- Our war against terror is in trouble now. Lawyers from some of our most prestigious law firms are trundling down to Guantanamo Bay to represent detainees. If any group in America can bring a project to foozle it would be a group of American lawyers intent on humanitarian service. It is only a matter of time before a new Ramsey Clark Jr. emerges to fill American courts with bogus legal charges to stoke international anti-Americanism. Then accomplished poseurs such as the Clintons and Jean-Francois Kerry can chirp up about how the whole world is increasingly hostile to us....

Help Hold the Bush Administration Accountable for Their Crimes: PeopleJudgeBush.org Only a Peoples' Movement Can Stop this Criminal War! Global Condemnatation of a Criminal Regime U.S. violations of international law have become so outrageous and widespread that even mainstream organizations, including Amnesty International, International Comittee of the Red Cross, and Physicians for Human Rights have issued statements condemning the Bush Administration's lawlessness. In addition, representatives of the media worldwide, including CNN, BBC, the Newspaper Guild, and widely respected organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have spoken out against the military's attempt to silence coverage...

THE MYSTERIOUS RAMSEY CLARK: STALINIST DUPE OR RULING-CLASS SPOOK? By Manny Goldstein Take a close look and there is something downright suspicious about former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, now the darling of certain sectors of the radical left. His journey has taken him from the heights of federal power to outer orbits of the political fringe. In the process, he has seemingly transformed from a shill for the most corrupt elements of the US elites to a shill for any foreign despot who claims to oppose the US elites. Who is Ramsey Clark really working for? Dynasty of Mediocrity Ramsey...

FORT STEWART, Ga. - A soldier who said he refused to return to duty because he opposes the war in Iraq left his unit as its job became more dangerous, his commanding officer testified Thursday. Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, an infantryman with the Florida National Guard, is charged with desertion after failing to return to his unit in Iraq after a two-week furlough in October. He said his experiences in Iraq turned him against the war, and he claims he deserted his unit partly to avoid orders to abuse Iraqi prisoners. Capt. A.J. Balbo, the lead prosecutor, said in his...

Ricardo Juarez, of the Woodbridge Workers Commitee and key spokesman and member of the Day Laborer Task Force, established by Prince William Board of County Supervisors to create a workforce center for day laborers in Woodbridge, will join Saddam Hussien's defense lawyer, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark at a rally to denounce America on May 7, 2005 sponsored by Ramsey's hate America group -A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism).

With freedom on the move across the Middle East and beyond, aggrieved anti-war protesters here in the United States have nothing better to do this weekend than what they have always done: stand in the way. The most unhinged of left-wing activists, from breast-exposing pacifists to the conspiracy-mongers of MoveOn.org, will descend on New York, Washington and other major media markets to "mark the two-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq." They will do so by clogging the streets, tying up police resources and leaving behind a trail of anti-Bush propaganda litter. Who says the left doesn't...

Help build the movement to stop the war: 1) Endorse - http://troopsoutnow.org/endorse.html 2) Organize transportation from your area http://troopsoutnow.org/orgcents.html 3) Forward this update to your lists 4) Donate http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.html Plans for the March 19, 2005, March and Rally in Central Park, NYC are drawing support from antiwar groups across the country. Saturday, March 19, the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, is a world-wide day of protest. In New York City, a broad coalition of antiwar, community, solidarity, and labor organizations will march from Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem to Central Park's East Meadow to demand the immediate,...

BC-APNewsAlert,40 NEW YORK (AP) - Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart has been convicted of helping an imprisoned radical sheik communicate with his terrorist followers on the outside. AP-NY-02-10-05 1525EST

Idiot alert! The defender of Saddam is now blubbering.

NO TO VICTOR'S JUSTICE In defense of Saddam Hussein Iraqi dictator has been demonized In late December, I traveled to Amman, Jordan, and met with the family and lawyers of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. I told them that I would help in his defense in any way I could.The news, when it found its way back to the United States, caused something of a stir. A few news reports were inquisitive — and some were skeptical — but most were simply dismissive or derogatory. "There goes Ramsey Clark again," they seemed to say. "Isn't it a shame? He used...

>Excerpts from the New York Times >Friday, January 21, 2005 > >Never before had the Park Service granted a protest group dedicated space for the inaugural parade, organizers said ... Ramsey Clark, an antiwar figure who served as attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson, appeared early and told the crowd that the Bush administration had "made the world a more dangerous place. It's because of what we've done and what we're doing right now," Mr. Clark said, adding, "Impeachment now is essential to the integrity of the U.S. government and the people of the United States." > >* *...