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Ex-US attorney general calls Iraq threat a 'fraud'
Reuters | 9/04/02 | Laura MacInnis

Posted on 09/04/2002 6:58:10 PM PDT by kattracks

WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Pressing his case against an assault on Baghdad, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said on Wednesday the United States had no legitimate reason to attack Iraq and that it would be a grave mistake to do so.

"The claim that Iraq is a threat is a complete fraud. I don't think they believe it for a minute," Clark said, referring to the Bush administration's stated grounds for seeking to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Clark, who served in the Johnson administration at the height of the Vietnam war, said it would be "the gravest mistake" of any president in his lifetime if President George W. Bush launches a war against Iraq.

The U.S. government has accused Iraq of amassing weapons of mass destruction, a charge Baghdad denies.

"What business is it of the United States to engage in regime change?," Clark asked at a news conference called to announce anti-war demonstrations expected to take place on Oct. 26 in Washington, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome.

Bush said on Wednesday that at the appropriate time he would ask Congress to approve any action on Iraq "necessary to deal with the threat."

Clark has been a vocal opponent of U.S. policy on Iraq and the U.N. sanctions imposed on Baghdad for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. In Baghdad last week, he urged the United Nations to act to prevent a U.S. assault on Iraq, saying it would breed more violence.

Other American critics of a possible war against Iraq shared their opinions on Wednesday at a Capitol Hill forum chaired by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat.

Some participants warned that a U.S. strike without legitimate reason, could destabilize the Middle East.

"A U.S. invasion would likely be met with fury across the region" American University professor Edmund Ghareeb said.

"Most Arab states view Iraq as a country on its knees, a victim of trigger-happy U.S. policies. An invasion would only serve to galvanize anti-American feelings, and help fulfill the dreams of extremists," Ghareeb said.

© Reuters Limited.


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To: kattracks
The claim that Iraq is a threat is a complete fraud. I don't think they believe it for a minute," Clark said, referring to the Bush administration's stated grounds for seeking to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

No matter Clark's history, I agree with him on this statement.

21 posted on 09/04/2002 7:11:59 PM PDT by SirAngus
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To: kattracks
It's Ramsey Clark. It's slightly less important than telling me my shoe was kidnapped by aliens.
22 posted on 09/04/2002 7:12:21 PM PDT by lepton
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To: Norvokov
Good, he has a differing viewpoint.

But he's still a misguided idiot who seems to be infected with leftism. I have a differing viewpoint.

23 posted on 09/04/2002 7:13:30 PM PDT by Benrand
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To: 07055
I always wondered how a useful idiot like Ramsey Clark ever got to be Attorney General---even in an Administration like LBJ's:

(His father, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark) stepped down from the high court when young Ramsey was appointed attorney general by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. Ramsey was likely appointed precisely because he was Tom's son. And not because LBJ was impressed with Tom, but just the opposite: Johnson knew that Ramsey's appointment would maneuver Tom into stepping down. This cleared the way for the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, a comparative moral and intellectual titan who was strategic to the White House's effort to buy peace with the civil rights movement.

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In 1968, Clark prosecuted Dr. Benjamin Spock for advocating draft resistance. "As late as 1968, while campaigning for Lyndon Johnson in Wisconsin, Clark was shouting at anti-war protesters to take their grievances to Hanoi rather than Washington," wrote John B. Judis in a 1991 expose on Clark in The New Republic.

24 posted on 09/04/2002 7:14:06 PM PDT by 07055
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To: Norvokov
Stick around, maybe you'll get a dose.
25 posted on 09/04/2002 7:14:10 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Norvokov
I find it irritating how people on this board begin bashing and throwing around personal insults towards anyone who has a differing viewpoint.

That aside, Clark has a history of being an idiot.

26 posted on 09/04/2002 7:14:26 PM PDT by lepton
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To: kattracks
Clark, who served in the Johnson administration at the height of the Vietnam war, said it would be "the gravest mistake" of any president in his lifetime if President George W. Bush launches a war against Iraq.

LOL! Can you believe any one would ask this @$$hole's opinion? He was in the administration responsible for the worse fiasco ever perpetrated upon America.

27 posted on 09/04/2002 7:14:55 PM PDT by Barnacle
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To: SirAngus
Do you know his viewpoints? He tends to be a supporter of genocidal maniacs. That's worthy of criticism.
28 posted on 09/04/2002 7:15:03 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: kattracks
Michelle Malkin on Ramsey Clark, A blood bath LOL
29 posted on 09/04/2002 7:16:52 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: dighton
PUT THIS TRAITOR WITH HIS BUDDIES AT OUR BASE IN CUBA!!!!!!
30 posted on 09/04/2002 7:16:56 PM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: kattracks
Clark, who served in the Johnson administration at the height of the Vietnam war, said it would be "the gravest mistake"
Just wonder who's the biggest fraud in modern American history????
31 posted on 09/04/2002 7:17:15 PM PDT by Toidylop
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To: Norvokov
I find it irritating how people on this board begin bashing and throwing around personal insults towards anyone who has a differing viewpoint.

I know Ramsey Clark. He isn't a friend of mine.

What you consider "personal insults" is simply the truth.

32 posted on 09/04/2002 7:18:05 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: SirAngus
Why don't you ask some of our pilot's that get SAMS fired at them on a routine basis. The dictator has proven himself to be a threat to everyone in the region and with Nuclear Arms he will be a threat to the entire world.

Now.. Unless you're privy to intellegence briefings that prove this mad man Hussain isn't seeking nuclear arms, I suggest you let those who know what the threats are make the case. Ramsey Clark has no inside info and niether do you.

33 posted on 09/04/2002 7:18:16 PM PDT by MJY1288
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To: dighton
Can't we call it current Traitor and DEMONCRAP appointed loser Ramsay "Useful Idiot" Clark? It seems so much more accurate.
34 posted on 09/04/2002 7:19:19 PM PDT by CARepubGal
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To: Skwidd

August, 29 Baghdad

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Sept. 4, Washington, D.C.

Fast work!

35 posted on 09/04/2002 7:19:35 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: lepton
It's Ramsey Clark. It's slightly less important than telling me my shoe was kidnapped by aliens.

"Undocumented space tourists."




36 posted on 09/04/2002 7:19:52 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: dighton; Orual; general_re
Intervention is dangerously overdue.
37 posted on 09/04/2002 7:20:22 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: Shermy
The Washington demonstration, and a parallel protest in San Francisco, are scheduled for Oct. 26.

They'd better move up the date of their protests. Iraq might be holding democratic elections by October 26.

38 posted on 09/04/2002 7:20:37 PM PDT by Barnacle
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To: Norvokov
I find it irritating how people on this board begin bashing and throwing around personal insults towards anyone who has a differing viewpoint.

You mean about Ramsey Clark?--the communist rabble-rouser? The guy who hates America and everything it stands for?

There's a little more than your standard personal insult involved with the vitriol you see demonstrated here for Mr. Clark.

He is a traitor to our country, and has richly earned every ounce of disgust heaped upon him from this and every corner.

39 posted on 09/04/2002 7:22:11 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: kattracks
I am astounded that someone with Clark's track record would have ANYTHING to say publicly, simply astounded.
40 posted on 09/04/2002 7:22:17 PM PDT by 3k9pm
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