Posted on 12/04/2005 8:46:41 AM PST by Isara
International Law: Everyone has the right to an attorney. But as Ramsey Clark rushes to the side of Saddam Hussein, this may be a case where both the defendant and his counsel can plead insanity.
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"Clark has been using and aiding mass murders and other American enemies for the last 30 years," conservative pundit David Horowitz said in 2003 of a Clark trip in Iraq. "He should give it a rest." But that is unlikely.
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Clark has defended the who's who of mass murderers — not just Milosevic, but also Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, also accused of war crimes, as well as a Rwandan pastor accused of orchestrating the slaughter of thousands of Tutsis, al-Qaida terrorist Mohamed Al-Owhali and Nazi war criminals Karl Linner and Jack Riemer.
Al-Owhali, a student of Osama bin Laden, guided a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998. The bomb-laden truck killed 213 and maimed scores of others.
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While 52 Americans were being held hostage in Iran by the government of Ayatollah Khomeini, Clark traveled to Tehran in 1980 to attend a conference called "The Crimes Of America."
He aided the Palestinian Liberation Organization of Yasser Arafat when its leaders were accused in the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound Jewish American who was shot and pushed overboard in the 1986 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
It would be bad enough if Clark were just providing legal counsel to this murderers row. But his main argument has not been that these despots are innocent but that the U.S. is guilty. He travels to countries like North Korea, Libya and Panama to denounce American policy using terms like "genocide" and war crimes."
Clark is not merely their attorney. He's their advocate.
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According to the article, Clark traveled to Tehran in 1980 in the midst of the hostage crisis to attend a conference called "The Crimes Of America."
Thanks Lawgvr. You confirmed what occurred to me after I had asked the question. There are plenty of Clarks out there, aren't there? Ramsey just happens to be the worst of the lot. Now Ramsey Lewis, on the other hand....
I think he, along with Jimmy Carter, were original members of the International Dictator Fan Club.
Remember, this guy was actually Attorney General of the United States. It says a lot about the kind of President Lyndon Johnson was.
Yes, how could I neglect The Natural himself? What a sweet swing he had!! Okay, and there is Tony Clark too -- all the Clarks seem to be first basemen.
Hey! I just love Clark Bars! Used to eat 'em all the time when I was a young shaver! LOL
yikes
Remember when they had ads with a giraffe saying "I want a Clark bar?" Maybe they could get Ramsey to do that, just to keep him out of harm's way.
Wasn't Clark's father some goof that gave Truman fits in his day?
It was easy for me to remember, I am a Cardinals baseball fan. In 1985 Jack Clark had a magic season. Everytime the Cards needed a big hit, Clark was coming to bat it seemed.
The first of his trials (that's plural) has nothing to do with us. The acts of genocide, etc. he committed against the innocents of his own country will not be negated because the big bad U.S. came in and dethroned him. IMHO.
Ramsey's father was Tom Clark, who Truman named to the Supreme Court and later called it his worst mistake. However, I think that is just showing how liberal Truman was. My recollection is that Tom Clark was actually a rather conservative jurist.
Add he is a lonely, unhappy, hatefull, dispicable insignificant little man.
Yeah, Clark really provided the power for that lineup. I'm a Yankees fan, and by the time they got him, he was finished. A good ballplayer, but my memory is that he was not the most easygoing guy in the clubhouse.
Clark is a communist and belongs to the Workers World Party.
That reminds me of Eisenhower and Earl Warren, probably. Not Truman. The reason Ramsey Clark was made attorney gen. was in exchange for Tom Clark stepping down from SCOTUS. The story goes that Ramsey was left high and dry on some issue and he snapped, and has been a vocal opponent of anything the U.S. does, or doesn't, do. He lends a certain cachet to any gathering of the usual suspects, undoubtedly.
"Former Attorney General of the United States...." Hm.
I'd heard the same thing, Freedom. There was another lousy Clark in the Johnson Administration -- Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. He was almost as anti-American as Ramsey. It's a wonder we survive some of these governments.
I hear reports that a rocket attack was planned on the Saddam trial, I wonder if it was coming off a Predator UAV? Ramsey Clark, call him collateral damage.
Ramsey Clark's name should be spelled:
"Ramses Clark, Yutz of the Nile"
and for all the right reasons
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