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Ramsey Clark, Attorney Outlaw: Clark Wants To Defend Saddam Hussein
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 12/5/2005 | Editor

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clark; crimesofamerica; hussein; iranianhostage; iraq; karadzic; leonklinghoffer; massmurderers; milosevic; plo; ramsey; ramseyclark; saddam; saddamhussein; saddamlawyer; saddamtrial; yasserarafat
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To: Khashayar
Isn't he the same person who met with Khomeini in 1979 in Paris and Tehran?

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."

21 posted on 12/04/2005 9:15:36 AM PST by Isara
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To: Lawgvr1955

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....


22 posted on 12/04/2005 9:15:47 AM PST by speedy
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To: Isara

I think he, along with Jimmy Carter, were original members of the International Dictator Fan Club.


24 posted on 12/04/2005 9:16:28 AM PST by kenth (Come back here... so that I may brain thee!)
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To: Rennes Templar

Remember, this guy was actually Attorney General of the United States. It says a lot about the kind of President Lyndon Johnson was.


25 posted on 12/04/2005 9:16:55 AM PST by speedy
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To: Baynative

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.


26 posted on 12/04/2005 9:18:22 AM PST by speedy
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To: speedy
"And Clark bars"

Hey! I just love Clark Bars! Used to eat 'em all the time when I was a young shaver! LOL

27 posted on 12/04/2005 9:18:37 AM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Isara

yikes


28 posted on 12/04/2005 9:21:28 AM PST by Khashayar (No Banana Allowed!)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

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.


29 posted on 12/04/2005 9:21:28 AM PST by speedy
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To: speedy

Wasn't Clark's father some goof that gave Truman fits in his day?


30 posted on 12/04/2005 9:22:43 AM PST by Thebaddog (K9 4ever)
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To: speedy

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.


31 posted on 12/04/2005 9:24:21 AM PST by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: Isara

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.


32 posted on 12/04/2005 9:24:58 AM PST by ShutUpandSing
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To: Thebaddog

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.


33 posted on 12/04/2005 9:25:22 AM PST by speedy
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To: Isara
Ramsey Clark is a traitor.

Add he is a lonely, unhappy, hatefull, dispicable insignificant little man.

34 posted on 12/04/2005 9:26:33 AM PST by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
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To: Lawgvr1955

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.


35 posted on 12/04/2005 9:27:11 AM PST by speedy
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To: Rennes Templar

Clark is a communist and belongs to the Workers World Party.


36 posted on 12/04/2005 9:42:52 AM PST by Sweetjustusnow (Oust the Communists)
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To: speedy

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.


37 posted on 12/04/2005 9:49:03 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Freedom4US

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.


38 posted on 12/04/2005 9:51:30 AM PST by speedy
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To: Isara

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.


39 posted on 12/04/2005 9:55:32 AM PST by BallyBill (U.S. Armed Forces.. In It ..To Win It!!)
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To: Isara

Ramsey Clark's name should be spelled:

"Ramses Clark, Yutz of the Nile"

and for all the right reasons


40 posted on 12/04/2005 9:57:01 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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