Posted on 12/29/2004 8:17:02 AM PST by areafiftyone
Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark has joined the team of Jordan-based lawyers defending Saddam Hussein.
Mr Clark - who held office in the 1960s under President Lyndon Johnson - said his principal concern was protecting the rights of the former Iraqi leader.
Saddam Hussein this month saw a lawyer for the first time since his capture.
Left-wing activist Mr Clark described the special tribunal established to try members of the former regime as a creation of the US military occupation.
He said it had no authority in law as a criminal court.
Mr Clark is joining a panel of about 20 prominent Arab and non-Arab lawyers who have volunteered to defend the former Iraqi leader.
He is an outspoken critic of American foreign policy on Iraq and visited Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in February 2003 just before the US-led invasion.
After leaving office in 1969, he became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. More recently, he has offered legal advice to numerous figures at odds with the US government including former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
As I say, when we're talking about Ramsey, it's not like he was all that clueful in the first place.
I will throw a party when Clark croaks.
ramsey clark would want to "represent" satan when the time comes for him to once again stand before GOD.
will someone please clarify for me exactly what the Constitution defines as, "Treason." At what point are citizenships revoked and charges brought? This place called America s/b viewed as a priviledge...I say revoke his citizenship and let him stay in Iraq or France or Palestine.
Deport him or give him the death penalty as befits a traitor.
Please, invite me. I'll bring chips and dip.
Doesn't everyone, even Saddam, deserve a fair trial and a lawyer?
" I can't wait for this idiot to die so I can take a hot steaming crap on his grave! Scumbag traitor!"
I love it! Clark is traitorous commie scum. I would also be happy to attend his funeral and piss on his grave in front of the assembled liberals paying tribute to their commie hero.
He is not a "rebel", he is a communist traitor to the United States, as is Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda and John Kerry. They gave aid and comfort to our enemies and should have been executed for treason.
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands he and his sons killed!
Where was their lawyers?
Jeff, do you really think Saddam will make it to trial? He knows a lot of sensitive information and he's in really poor health.
Remember that Saddam Hussein is not a Muslim fundamentalist, but a Ba'athist, that is, a member of a nationalist and socialist party with strong ties to the old Soviet bloc. Ba'athist ideology is an amalgam of Nazism and Stalinism, dressed up in pan-Arab and Muslim rhetoric. Clark is defending a socialist "brother."
Because of that need, it is more likely that the terrorists themselves could try and have him killed, and then blame it on the US.
Please oh please someone tell me that when Clark dies he's not eligible to be buried at Arlington..............
Lets get a message to the Terrorists that if they Grab Ramsey Clark, and Saw his head off, we would leave their country Right away.
Just Kidding....Heh Heh Heh!
Thats a good one..I was just thinking that when I got to your post.
Sounds about the right job for him. No surprise there.
Yeah who was that bald headded guy that went to prison who had alot of data on Bill Clinton? He died in jail.
The problem with that idea is that they would be motivated to work even harder to free Saddam.
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