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Posted on 10/05/2006 9:32:31 PM PDT by Valin
WASHINGTON A member of Saddam Hussein's defense team predicts a bloodbath will follow should an Iraqi court order the execution of the former president.
Former U-S Attorney General Ramsey Clark says he fears that hanging Saddam and the others would ignite "catastrophic violence." He goes so far as to say it would lead to "the end of civilization as we know."
Clark -- part of Saddam's legal team -- says the former leader's Sunni Muslim tribe would be enraged over what they would consider a revenge killing by the Shiite-controlled and U-S-sponsored government.
Saddam and the other defendants, who include his vice president, are being tried for genocide in the deaths of Iraqi Kurds during the late 1980s.
TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americahaters; bushhaters; iraq; radicalleftists; ramseyclark; saddam; theenemywithin
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:32:33 PM PDT
by
Valin
To: Valin
O.K. So cut off his head, instead! :)
To: Valin
Holy mackerel. Unrest in the Middle East? We dare not take the risk.
To: Valin
That decision is up to the Iraqi people. Not us. I doubt there will be much of an uproar.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:34:18 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(This tag line will be commercial free for the remainder of this thread.)
To: Valin
If only they could hang ol' Ramsey along with him.
Stinking traitor.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:34:23 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Attention GOP---Rule 4: See Rules 1 and 3. Rule 5: NO FOLEYS!)
To: Valin
Former U.S. attorney general says hanging Saddam would cause Iraqi bloodbath No, there's not that much blood involved in a hanging.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:35:08 PM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: Antoninus
You know you got problems when your own lawyer expects you to hang.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:35:30 PM PDT
by
Patrick1
To: Patrick1
LOL -- I never thought about it that way.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:36:05 PM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: Valin
Ramsey Clark has no credibility. Never has, never will.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:37:19 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: Valin
Wish you'd mentioned in the title it was from Clark - that way I wouldn't have bothered reading it.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:37:19 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
To: Valin
Former U.S. attorney general says hanging Saddam would cause Iraqi bloodbathExactly what does he call what's already been happening in Iraq?
To: Valin
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:38:00 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Valin
It's only fitting that the end of all civilization follows the mother of all wars. I think ramsey has been in iraq too long. He's starting to talk like them.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:38:10 PM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: CougarGA7
I'm waiting for Saddam's death so I can change my tagline.
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:39:07 PM PDT
by
cibco
(Xin Loi! Saddam)
To: Valin
Ramsey Clark: "Nice country you've got there, Iraq... Wouldn't want anything to happen to it, would you now"...
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:39:34 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
To: Valin
"A member of Saddam Hussein's defense team predicts a bloodbath will follow should an Iraqi court order the execution of the former president."
A threat? Which lawyer made this threat?
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:40:33 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Father of an American Soldier fighting in the WOT)
To: mgstarr
Oh but we would've missed you. And it wouldn't be the same without you.
How's that for sucking up! :-)
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:40:37 PM PDT
by
Valin
(http://www.irey.com/)
To: Valin
They should have dropped a grenade in Saddam's Spider hole in the first place. Letting him live and have a trial predictably turned into a Circus.
To: Valin
How dose that song go?
Mama don't whip little Wilber
Mama don't sit on his head
Mama don't whip little Wilber
I think we should SHOOT him instead.
I don't hear well all the time so when I hears songs sometimes I must make up my own words.
To: Valin
I wonder if Saddam's plastic shredders still work?
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posted on
10/05/2006 9:43:48 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
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