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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.
No matter Clark's history, I agree with him on this statement.
But he's still a misguided idiot who seems to be infected with leftism. I have a differing viewpoint.
(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.
That aside, Clark has a history of being an idiot.
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.
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????
I know Ramsey Clark. He isn't a friend of mine.
What you consider "personal insults" is simply the truth.
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.
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"Undocumented space tourists."
They'd better move up the date of their protests. Iraq might be holding democratic elections by October 26.
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.
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