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US REBEL (RAMSEY CLARK) JOINS SADDAM LEGAL TEAM
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| 12/29/04
Posted on 12/29/2004 8:17:02 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: conserv13
Doesn't everyone, even Saddam, deserve a fair trial and a lawyer?He already had lawyers on his defense team. Clark joining the team and making the comment about trying the U.S. just seems so traiterous.
To: conserv13
Doesn't everyone, even Saddam, deserve a fair trial and a lawyer?He already had lawyers on his defense team. Clark joining the team and making the comment about trying the U.S. just seems so traiterous.
To: areafiftyone
Once a communist member always a communist. This is the ongoing attack on Democarcy from the Kerry-Clinton left.
OPs4 God BLess America!
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posted on
12/29/2004 9:41:26 AM PST
by
OPS4
(worth repeating)
To: areafiftyone
A traitor to the human race. Keep in mind that what we are about to see is similar to what would have happened if Hitler would have been on trial. One thing Saddam has going for him is that today's left wing media is sympathetic to him because of the anyone but bush mentality.
To: OXENinFLA
Ramsey Clark has been a known traitor to the United States for a long, long time.
The time and cause is now ripe to charge this RAT with sedition!
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posted on
12/29/2004 9:51:44 AM PST
by
Smartass
(BUSH & CHENEY to 2008 Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
To: GunnyHartman
He's got my vote for the DNC chair.He's got my vote for the electric chair.
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posted on
12/29/2004 10:20:26 AM PST
by
Anti-MSM
(The war on terror....NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!)
To: badbass
I think the Iraqi's should institute a policy that, if you are one of Saddam's lawyers, and he loses in the trial, you will be executed along with him.
I fully understand your sentiment, but disagree utterly.
Saddam needs to have the best trial available, the fullness of the evidence against him needs to be presented, tested, and broadcast on al Jazeera.
He needs to have a strong defence team, challenging things at every stage.
That said, this guy sounds ghastly. I haen't come across him before, but his views show him to be the worst sort of imperialist (the sort that does not acknowledge his own imperialism). From the article: "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".
The Iraqi Government set up the tribunal system on the grounds that justice delayed is justice denied; there needs to be a swift movement to punish those who have done wrong, and the exhonerate those who merely kept their heads down and went along with Ba'athism. Most importantly the Iraqis have to try them, not the Americans, nor the co-alition, nor indeed the U.N. but the Iraqis. Patronising asses such as Mr. Clark appears to be merely impede that process.
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posted on
12/29/2004 10:23:25 AM PST
by
tjwmason
("For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman!")
To: OXENinFLA
Hmm. When the evidence is brought forth at trial, numbers in mass graves, chemical weapons, testimony, rape and torture room evidence etc. how will John Francois Kerry distance himself from his old ex-VVAW buddy who is defending the person responsible for 4 million Iraqi deaths?
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posted on
12/29/2004 10:44:40 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(The MSM becomes more marginalized and less significant by the minute.)
To: prairiebreeze
how will John Francois Kerry distance himself from his old ex-VVAW buddy who is defending the person responsible for 4 million Iraqi deaths? I'm sure his response will be nuanced and most likely in French.....
To: Anti-MSM
"He's got my vote for the electric chair."
Agreed, but first let's let him drive the final nail into the DemonRatic Party's coffin.
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posted on
12/29/2004 10:51:57 AM PST
by
GunnyHartman
(Allah is allah outta virgins.)
To: OXENinFLA
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posted on
12/29/2004 10:52:22 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(The MSM becomes more marginalized and less significant by the minute.)
To: areafiftyone
The Al Jizz take is worse:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/11388BFC-9290-4141-B0E1-BEA75A1B20F8.htm
Ramsey Clarke to defend Saddam
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Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:53 AM GMT
Ramsey Clark said Washington should also be put on trial
Former US attorney-general Ramsey Clark is to join Saddam Hussein's defence team, a spokesman for the ousted Iraqi president's lawyers says.
Ziad Khasawna said on Wednesday that Clark, who held the office of attorney-general under US president Lyndon Johnson, had "honoured and inspired" the legal team by agreeing to help defend Saddam.
The former top US justice official, who arrived on 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 in Baghdad in February 2003 just before the US-lead invasion and has also been involved with the defence of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, on trial for war crimes at a UN court in The Hague.
Clark comment
Clark said in the Jordanian capital Amman that his principle concern was protecting the former president's rights, 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," he said.
"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 administration in Iraq last December to try members of the former government.
Clark also said the US itself must be tried for the November assault on Falluja, destruction of houses, torture in prisons and its role in the deaths of thousands of Iraqis in the war.
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posted on
12/29/2004 11:22:28 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: areafiftyone
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posted on
12/29/2004 11:22:56 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: BikerNYC
Saddam is entitled to a lawyer. Agree and he has a "team of lawyers" who can adequately defend him without Clark.
This is no different than John Adams defending British soldiers who killed Americans during at the Boston Massacre.
Please don't compare John Adams to this traitor whose agenda is quite clear. Ramsey Clark said Washington should also be put on trial
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posted on
12/29/2004 11:35:53 AM PST
by
StarFan
To: StarFan
Agree and he has a "team of lawyers" who can adequately defend him without Clark.
Says you. Usually the client gets to decide these things.
Ramsey Clark said Washington should also be put on trial.
Of course he said that. If I were on the legal team I would probably say the same thing. Any lawyer representing Saddam would most likely be committing malpractice if he didn't bring our government's actions into the mix.
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posted on
12/29/2004 11:44:25 AM PST
by
BikerNYC
To: BikerNYC
Usually the client gets to decide these things. He did decide, and hired a well known French attorney to represent him.
Any lawyer representing Saddam would most likely be committing malpractice if he didn't bring our government's actions into the mix.
His practice has been to condemn the US without discretion. Look at how Aljazeera described our Mr. Clark: "The former top US justice official, who arrived on 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".
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posted on
12/29/2004 12:06:17 PM PST
by
StarFan
To: StarFan
Well, if Saddam doesn't want him, Saddam won't get him.
I have not followed the life work of Ramsey Clark. All I know is that a lawyer who is zealously and conscientiously representing Saddam should, by any standard of legal prudence, attempt to put this country's actions at issue at Saddam's trial.
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posted on
12/29/2004 12:12:51 PM PST
by
BikerNYC
To: areafiftyone; Neets
My my. He's back.....
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posted on
12/29/2004 12:14:43 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?)
To: OXENinFLA
To be honest ... I'm not surprised with this news
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posted on
12/29/2004 12:19:58 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: areafiftyone
"And do not forget to transmit my consideration to George Gallaway who did everything to defend Iraq, to
Ramsee Clark, Mahatir Mohamed, Nelson Mandela and all the free Arabs."~ Saddam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309801/posts
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posted on
12/29/2004 12:56:38 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(America, bless God!)
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