Posted on 12/29/2004 5:57:22 AM PST by Ginifer
AMMAN - Former US attorney general and left-wing activist Ramsey Clark is to join the defence team of Saddam Hussein, a spokesman for the toppled Iraqi president’s lawyers said on Wednesday.
Clark, who held the office of attorney general under US president Lyndon B. Johnson, “is one of the members of the defence team of president Saddam Hussein,” Ziad Khassawneh said. “This honours and inspires us.”
The former top US justice official, who arrived Tuesday in Jordan where the defence team is based, has become known as a left-wing lawyer and firm critic of US foreign policy since leaving office.
He visited Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in February 2003 just before the US-lead invasion and has also been involved with the defence of former Yugoslav leader Solbodan Milosevic, on trial for war crimes at a UN court in the Hague.
Clark told reporters in the Jordanian capital that his principle concern was protecting the rights of Saddam, who only saw a lawyer for the first time this month, a year after his capture.
“In international law, anyone accused of crime has the right to be tried by a confident, independent and impartial court, and there can be no fair trail without those qualities,” said Clark.
“The special court in Iraq was created by the Iraqi governing council, which is nothing more than a creation of the US military occupation and has no authority in law as a criminal court,” he said.
The Iraq Special Tribunal was established by the US-led coalition last December to try members of the former regime of Saddam.
Clark also said the United States itself must be tried for the November assault on Fallujah, destruction of houses, torture in prisons and its role in the deaths of thousands of Iraqis in the war.
Another has-been liberal weenie trying to get his pusmug back into the public eye. His daddy should have used a condom.
Saddamn is getting the lawyers he deserves.
There's gotta be a way that this twinkle-toed communist
can be stripped of his US citizenship!
Isn't there an obscure clause in Iraqi law that extends the death penalty to the legal team representing convicted ex-dictators?
So the looney left sends its favorite lawyer to defend Saddam. While not suprising, it sure gives us some nice hard evidence that the left is on Saddam's side and against the US. Should make for some nice talking points. I hope the RNC plays this up.
ouch
FYI
I would have been shocked if Ramsey Clark HADN'T joined Saddam's defense team- his entire theme in life is anti-American.
Some who hate America rise very high in our government.
Ramsey Clark. CEO of Hate America First, Inc.
Ramsey Clarke had absolutely no qualification to be appointed Attorney General. He was appointed for the sole purpose of forcing his father to resign from the Supreme Court.
Just reading the title of this article, you know who it is...
It figures, this bum is as anti-American as one could get. This mutt should be investigated and tried for treason. He has been giving aid and comfort to the enemys of our nation for years.
He's obviously quite insane and no longer in possession of his faculties... What about a glue factory?
As do I, but don't count on it. They hardly played up Fn's Senate career, for Gods sake.
How hard is it to put together sedition charges against this clown anyway?
NOT!
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