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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1985 Topps? Good year for baseball :)
Democats defend Sadam.
Doesn't Saddam realize having Ramsey Clark as his attorney could harm his reputation?
"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."
Clark was undoubtedly John Kerry's source as a go between with the North Vietnamese. Htis bast**d is and always will be a traitor. Wasn't he also in the Carter administration?
I was watching him being interviewed in CNN today by the lovely Kyra Phillips.
He was barely coherent.
Was I the only one that heard him say Bush wanted to depose Aristide of Haiti as well as Saddam?
Not only should his passport be revoked, I would like to know who in our government gave Ramsey Clark permission to be sadam lawyer in the first place? How-can-this-happen? How did he get to Iraq? I would like to know names. Was it someone in the State Dept, or DOD, Justice, or other?
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