Posted on 11/27/2005 7:55:18 PM PST by smoothsailing
NEWS ANALYSIS
Ramsey Clark to the Rescue in Iraq: Maybe
By Jim Kouri
Nov 27, 2005
Ramsey Clark never met an enemy of America he didn't like. As the world prepares for the war crimes trial of the Butcher of Baghdad, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, none other than Ramsey "America is Evil" Clark is on the case -- at least he hopes he'll be on the case. Clark wants to join the legions of attorneys trying to save one of history's most brutal and vicious dictators. The hero of the American left rides again, this time into Iraq.
To be sure, Ramsey Clark is not known as an effective and successful lawyer -- he wins few cases -- but he always manages to find a platform on which he can indulge in his favorite activity: bashing the United States of America. Colonel David Hunt, a Fox News Channel military analyst, called Clark simply "a loser...a stupid man."
But not everyone is familiar with this former Democrat Party hack other than perhaps the fact he's a former attorney general. Many who knew him, or knew of him, would say that he was to the office of US Attorney General what Jimmy Carter was to the Presidency -- a man without a clue who can't shut his mouth now that he's out of office.
Clark's father was attorney general during the Roosevelt Administration before being appointed Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. Ramsey, a law school graduate from the University of Chicago was appointed assistant attorney general by John F. Kennedy and eventually became attorney general under Lyndon Johnson.
Clark was an avowed enemy of American cops in his position as AG. He often accused police officers of misconduct even before a preliminary investigation was completed. For instance, after the Los Angeles riots, he was more interested in attempting to indict cops and National Guard troops for allegations of excessive force than in arresting and indicting rioters who burned, looted and assaulted on the streets of LA. He also opposed the death penalty, yet defended some of society's worst killers including Sheik Omar El-Rahman -- the so-called Blind Sheik -- who masterminded the first World Trade Center terrorist attack in 1993. He also defended Leonard Peltier, a Native-American activist who murdered two FBI agents.
In 1980, in the midst of the Iranian Hostage Crisis Ramsey flew to Tehran not to help the US hostages but to take part in a "Crimes in America" symposium. He also supported Libya's dictator Col. Qadaffi after Reagan bombed Tripoli. There was also an anti-Semitic side to Clark when he defended pro-bono the Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the ocean liner the Achille Lauro and murdered a wheelchair bound Leon Klinghoffer, whom they threw into the ocean, wheelchair and all. He's also defended former Nazis against extradition to Israel and Russia. His anti-Semitism stems from his close relationship with Lyndon Larouche, the political madman, whom Clark defended during Larouche's trial on charges of bilking his supporters out of millions dollars. Some of Clark's rhetoric sounds eerily similar to Larouche's.
There were whispers in Washington that during the Vietnam and Cold Wars, Clark may have leaked classified information to the North Vietnamese and the Soviets, but there was never an investigation conducted into these rumors, in spite of overwhelming evidence that Clark had and continues to have close ties to the Workers World Party, an admitted Stalinist group. Whenever there is genocide or atrocities -- real atrocities -- Clark is always on the case on behalf of the perpetrators including his work defending militias in Rwanda.
Clark is founder of the International Action Center, an organization linked to communist and socialist organizations throughout the world. He claims his group is the largest antiwar movement in the United States. He's a vitriolic critic of US military actions around the globe, and he calls government officials "international outlaws," accusing them of "killing innocent people because we don't like their leader[s]."
Always there for America's enemies, Clark has visited Iraq, North Vietnam, Serbia, and other countries to investigate the effects of American bombing and economic sanctions wherever they occur. About the Iraq sanctions, he said, "They're like the neutron bomb, which is the most inspired of all weapons, because it kills the people and preserves the property, the wealth. So you get the wealth and you don't have the baggage of the hungry, clamoring poor." A true giant of liberal intellect, Clark never explained that statement to the unwashed masses. His usual speeches combine hyperbole with fantasy.
After the Gulf War, in 1991, Clark really went off the edge when he initiated a war-crimes tribunal, which tried and found guilty President George H. W. Bush and Generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, among others. Of course, the moron couldn't figure out how to incarcerate the three defendants since the tribunal was composed of like-minded liberals who'd rather talk than fight -- and talk and talk and talk.
One decorated Marine, Sid Francis, laughed and said Clark would have been slapped silly if he ever tried to strong-arm Powell or Schwartzkopf. "Powell would have b*tch slapped Clark if he even attempted to fulfill his "Fantasy Island" conviction."
Clark's non-bestselling book The Fire This Time -- ironically published by Thunder's Mouth Press -- described the crimes he claims were committed by US and NATO forces during the Gulf War. Of course, he failed to address the atrocities Saddam's hordes inflicted on the people of Kuwait. And again, his book was filled with hearsay.
When asked during an interview why he focuses on the alleged crimes of his own country (allegations he himself makes up), instead of those committed by Iraq, Clark says that we, as citizens, need to announce our principles and "force our government to adhere to them. When you see your government violating those principles, you have the highest obligation to correct what your government does, not point the finger at someone else." Well said. However, Clark is expected -- if he is allowed to join Saddam's "dream team" -- to do exactly the opposite of his comment about fingerpointing. He will attempt to make the trial about US actions and about President Bush and General Tommy Franks.
Clark's allegations are and were always based on hearsay and conjecture. If someone tells him an Iraqi soldier committed an atrocity, he demands proof beyond of shadow of a doubt. If an American soldier is accused, Clark unleashes his vitriol about how evil the US military conducts itself in a war. Of course, Clark was never a member of the military. He was never a cop. He's the pampered son of a Supreme Court justice whose one pursuit of elected office ended in disaster. If one must say something complimentary about Ramsey Clark, it would have to be that Clark openly says what many liberals in America believe but can't say or they wouldn't be elected to office. Senator Dick Durbin's recent outburst on the floor of the US Senate -- when he compared US soldiers to Nazis -- is a perfect example. Durbin offered a tepid apology. Ramsey Clark apologizes to no one.
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Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police
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Ramsey Clark is another reason to dislike LBJ.
Be prepared for a barrage of Slime media articles
based on spun facts which will rehabilitate Saddam in the eyes of the US public. This will be designed to show
a) Saddam had no WMD
b) that the French , Russians and Germans were not complicit in the WMD , nor was there a linkage between the UN Oil for Food program and cash for WMD research.
c) that the Russian trucks hi-tailing it to the Syrian border were full of oil exploration equipment, not French , German, and Russian WMD supplies traded for oil options.
You see, Ramsey Clark doesn't want to defend Saddam so much as to make sure that the truth about France, Germany and Russiam does not make it into the light of day. The game that Saddam's previous defense team was playing was to say: put Saddam on trial and he we will make sure he sings like a bird. That is why all of the Socialist Wing Nut Amnesty International lawyers in the world wanted on board, and why Saddams family wanted the A - Team dismissed, BECAUSE NONE OF THIS IS ABOUT DEFENDING SADDAM, ITS ABOUT THE TRUTH COMING OUT ABOUT THE COMPLICTY OF FRANCE RUSSIA AND GERMANY WITH THE UN TO VIOLATE THE PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE:
THis is the last thing that the WING NUT SOCIALISTS WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN, BECAUSE IT WILL PROVE PRESIDENT BUSH CORRECT AND THE DIMS, AND THE 5TH COLUMN OF THE CIA ( PLAME WILSON ET AL) WRONG!
Wow. This guy sounds like a real jerk.
I hope he can get to know the real taste of insurgency in Iraq
LMAO!
That middle name is accurate, and shared by not a small number of maggots in the Johnson, Carter, and Clinton administrations.
we can only hope that those who are picking off Saddam's other lawyers will get lucky...
At least not to me. :)
Ping
Well, maybe he'll be in the wrong place at the wrong time and get done, a long time deserved outcome; one can hope.
Ramsey Clark is a turdball. Maybe he'll meet the same end as some of Saddam's previous lawyers have. One can only hope.
Sorry for yelling. I get frustrated when the issues are not defined well. I will curb the VOICE in future!
Ramsey Clark is a Saddamite.
He helped coordinate the Dan Rather interview with Saddam on the eve of the war.
He was the conduit to the media when the soldier's family wanted to release the images from Abu Ghraib.
That Ramsey Clark would attack America for "offenses" at AG and defend Saddam's regime (which did things ten thousand times worse, such as disembowelings and cutting off hands, not to mention Saddam's rape rooms) should totally discredit this vile man.
I wouldn't want to see him assassinated by Islamonazis even in public (as Van Gogh was) because there would STILL be conspiracy theories as to who "really" silenced this critic of the war. There are barking moonbats who insist that Hunter T. Thompson's suicide was not by his hand.
I guess whoever offed Vince Foster must have been itching to kill again.
I agree with what you say, but it isn't really about defending a man everyone knows is a genocidal maniac. Its about covering up those who sided with the homicidal maniac: France ( liberal wing nut heaven 1) , Germany ( liberal wing nut heaven 2) Russia ( liberal wing nut
heaven in development), and the United nations Oil for Food ( liberal wing nut cash cow) and who all didn't give a flying fig for world peace.
Thats what makes Ramsey Clark the biggest liberal boofer of all time , potentially. We shouldn't allow him to pull it off.
Let him go and show America what a true leftist does for a living.
People like Clark and what they represent is repugnant and anything that can be done to expose them and the truth they're attempting to cover up is well worth it.
But don't you dare question shis patriotism.....
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