is that Mr. Molly Ivins on the left? YIKES!
Posted on 12/29/2004 11:58:07 AM PST by Kaslin
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.
If Ramsey Clark were grabbed by some Jihadists and shown (blindfolded) on film while a bunch of masked towelheads stood around him...would anyone care?
I wouldn't.
When Saddam is found guilty, will he complain he did not have competent legal counsel?
Revoke citizenship ASAP.
I probably would party
Maybe he'll grab a cab in Baghdad, driven by an imminent martyr...one can only hope....
I hope when he is found guilty the Iraqis don't even give him a chance to complain and hang him right away
Who pays this traitor?
There is no doubt in my mind that Clark was the go between John Kerry and the North Vietnamese. I think he was actually part of the strategy...
If there was anyone who in my opinion is the poster child for Treason it's him.
nikos1121
I agree, but unfortunately he is a native born citizen
Is this guy still living?!
Sad-damn should be STRIPPED of his ill gotten gains. If there was any justice in this world, he'd be declared destitute and treated accordingly!
Hey,
He defended Milosevic, Charles Taylor and PLO leaders named in a lawsuit by the family of Leon Klinghoffer.
I have a difficult time calling him an American.
And he needs to be tried as a traitor and shot, or sentenced to prison for 1000 years
They should put him up for treason.
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