Ex-U.S. Attorney General Ready To Defend Saddam

IslamOnline.net ^ | Dec. 15 2003 | Mustafa Abdel-Halim

[Senator Pardek]

CAIRO, December 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsy Clarke expressed readiness Sunday, December 14, to act as defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, with western analysts suspecting the captured leader would be given fair trial.

"Certainly, why not. I am ready to act in his defense," Clarke told IslamOnline.net shortly after the U.S. confirmed the detention of Saddam near Tikrit.

Clarke, currently in Cairo to attend a two-day international anti-occupation conference, stressed that Saddam – however brutal – should be give a "fair, objective and impartial trial".

"Saddam must be domestically prosecuted first and - if this fails - he should be referred to an international court," said the former American official, known for his staunch opposition to the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

He doubted, however, that the ousted Iraqi president would be given such a fair trial.

Clarke averred that neither the U.S.-installed Interim Governing Council (IGC) nor the occupation forces is eligible to try the overthrown president.

"The IGC does not represent Iraq. It is Bush's council," said the former U.S. attorney general.

He noted that the Iraqi body was quick to say that DNA test proved the captured man was Saddam.

"Do you think that they can take the test themselves. They are puppets," Clarke maintained.

For the occupation forces to take over the trial, he dismissed this as a would-be ridiculous proposal.

"Occupation of Iraq is in itself an international crime" and runs counter to common decency and moral integrity.

Asked if Saddam could be taken to the International Criminal Court, the former U.S. attorney general whimsically ruled out the suggestion, noting Washington does not even recognize the court.

[Bob]

Clarke: "Occupation of Iraq is in itself an international crime" and runs counter to common decency and moral integrity.

While allowing a brutal dictator to run people through shredders is just fine. Barf.

[armymarinemom]

I've been telling my hubby for two days that he was going to do this.

[Howlin]

[doug from upland]

I think the photo is from about 4-6 years ago.

[NYC GOP Chick]

John Adams defended the British Soldiers for the Boston Massacre. If we don't supply Saddam with a fair trial, we are no better than he was while he was in power. I thought the President hit the nail on the head yesterday. He said that Saddam would be treated fairly unlike he treated the people in Iraq.

Sure, but this ass clown is actively rooting for Hussein and against us. He's not offering to do it out of some sense of obligation and love of the law, but out of a loathing of the United States of America.

[MEG33]

I believe in a fair trial.It's the old Free Mumia promoter,Castro hugger,Ramsey Clark who I'm against.

[Lady In Blue]

As a Roman Catholic, I resent very much your anti-Catholic remarks. Let me guess, I assume you're a foundamentalist? In any event, the Vatican was not in favor of the war, but saying that, it's a long way from being against the war to being for Saddam! It's slander to say that they are for Saddam. Take your bigotry some where else.

[McGavin999]

Now why am I not surprised? The only surprising thing about this is that none of us Freepers even thought about old Ramsey the commie.

[VeniVidiVici]

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsy Clarke ...

Wrong! It should be: Former DEMOCRAT U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clarke...

Every one of these boneheads should be tagged with their RAT affiliation. If the "mainstream" press won't do it we will.

[prairiebreeze]

OH FER CRYIN' OUT LOUD!

Prairie

[deport]

Interesting first paragraph here:

Interesting photo from the article:

Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified
on what he called "extensive destruction ...
of civilian life" in Iraq.

[CFC__VRWC]

If Ramsey Clark wants to defend Saddam, I say more power to him! I watched him on C-Span speaking at the last ANSWER rally in DC (a few weeks ago), and he was rambling, confused and all but incoherent. If Ramsey Clark defends murderous thugs like he speaks in public, Saddam ought to be pushing up daisies in no time.

[dighton]

Good find, Howlin.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Mohamed al-'Owhali, convicted in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, relied on the words of two former U.S. Cabinet officials Monday in mounting his defense against the death penalty.

Al-'Owhali's lawyers played a television interview with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and produced former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a witness, both attesting to the detrimental impact sanctions and bombings have had on Iraqi civilians during and since the Gulf War.

Continued ...

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"Rather and CBS went to no little trouble snagging this interview with the Big Fish. When has CBS ever permitted an American president to control the cameras? They reportedly permitted that privilege to Saddam's men. There may have been other ground rules as well. And CBS does not deny that it enlisted the good offices of none other than Ramsey Clark, who took time away from his busy schedule indicting the United States for war crimes (which he has done in Libya, North Korea, Iran, Vietnam and Panama, to name just a few) to put in a word for Rather with his friend Saddam.

The Ramsey Clark endorsement set the tone for the whole interview, because it was all about personality -- Dan Rather's mostly, but also Saddam's. And while Rather claims, in response to White House criticism, that everything was placed in its proper context, that's not quite true."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/mc20030228.shtml

[Tempest]

Truly frigtening stuff workshops for extremism. geesh. I'm begginging to see the core of the new liberal revolution and it's uglier than they were the last time.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

It wasn't anti Catholic. It was very pro Catholic because it supports and repeats what the Vaticans stance was. If you're upset, take it up with them.

Saddam had the support of the Pope. Deal with it.

[Dionysius]

Somebody said (I wish I could remember who) something like, "Sooner or later, everyone gets the face he deserves to have". Well Ramsey sure got his.

[Carolinamom]

Why is it that donations to Ramsey's IAC are tax deductible?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"ANSWER is an outgrowth of the International Action Center, a San Francisco group showcasing the work of former attorney general and all-around America-loather Ramsey Clark. As York tells it: "Both Answer and the International Action Center are closely allied with a small but energetic Marxist-Leninist organization known as the Workers World Party, which ... supported the Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Chinese government's crackdown in Tienanmen Square. Today, the WWP devotes much of its energy to supporting the regimes in Iraq and North Korea.""

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/mc20030124.shtml

[squidly]

Adams didn't make a career out of defending and consorting with mass murdering scum, as Clark does.