Posted on 12/29/2004 8:17:02 AM PST by areafiftyone
Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark has joined the team of Jordan-based lawyers defending Saddam Hussein.
Mr Clark - who held office in the 1960s under President Lyndon Johnson - said his principal concern was protecting the rights of the former Iraqi leader.
Saddam Hussein this month saw a lawyer for the first time since his capture.
Left-wing activist Mr Clark described the special tribunal established to try members of the former regime as a creation of the US military occupation.
He said it had no authority in law as a criminal court.
Mr Clark is joining a panel of about 20 prominent Arab and non-Arab lawyers who have volunteered to defend the former Iraqi leader.
He is an outspoken critic of American foreign policy on Iraq and visited Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in February 2003 just before the US-led invasion.
After leaving office in 1969, he became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. More recently, he has offered legal advice to numerous figures at odds with the US government including former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
He already had lawyers on his defense team. Clark joining the team and making the comment about trying the U.S. just seems so traiterous.
He already had lawyers on his defense team. Clark joining the team and making the comment about trying the U.S. just seems so traiterous.
Once a communist member always a communist. This is the ongoing attack on Democarcy from the Kerry-Clinton left.
OPs4 God BLess America!
A traitor to the human race. Keep in mind that what we are about to see is similar to what would have happened if Hitler would have been on trial. One thing Saddam has going for him is that today's left wing media is sympathetic to him because of the anyone but bush mentality.
He's got my vote for the electric chair.
Hmm. When the evidence is brought forth at trial, numbers in mass graves, chemical weapons, testimony, rape and torture room evidence etc. how will John Francois Kerry distance himself from his old ex-VVAW buddy who is defending the person responsible for 4 million Iraqi deaths?
I'm sure his response will be nuanced and most likely in French.....
FOFL!
The Al Jizz take is worse:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/11388BFC-9290-4141-B0E1-BEA75A1B20F8.htm
Ramsey Clarke to defend Saddam
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Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:53 AM GMT
Ramsey Clark said Washington should also be put on trial
Former US attorney-general Ramsey Clark is to join Saddam Hussein's defence team, a spokesman for the ousted Iraqi president's lawyers says.
Ziad Khasawna said on Wednesday that Clark, who held the office of attorney-general under US president Lyndon Johnson, had "honoured and inspired" the legal team by agreeing to help defend Saddam.
The former top US justice official, who arrived on Tuesday in Jordan where the defence team is based, has become known as a left-wing lawyer and firm critic of US foreign policy since leaving office.
He visited Saddam in Baghdad in February 2003 just before the US-lead invasion and has also been involved with the defence of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, on trial for war crimes at a UN court in The Hague.
Clark comment
Clark said in the Jordanian capital Amman that his principle concern was protecting the former president's rights, who only saw a lawyer for the first time this month - a year after his capture.
"In international law, anyone accused of crime has the right to be tried by a confident, independent and impartial court, and there can be no fair trail without those qualities," he said.
"The special court in Iraq was created by the Iraqi governing council, which is nothing more than a creation of the US military occupation and has no authority in law as a criminal court," he said.
The Iraq Special Tribunal was established by the US-led administration in Iraq last December to try members of the former government.
Clark also said the US itself must be tried for the November assault on Falluja, destruction of houses, torture in prisons and its role in the deaths of thousands of Iraqis in the war.
Agree and he has a "team of lawyers" who can adequately defend him without Clark.
This is no different than John Adams defending British soldiers who killed Americans during at the Boston Massacre.
Please don't compare John Adams to this traitor whose agenda is quite clear. Ramsey Clark said Washington should also be put on trial
Any lawyer representing Saddam would most likely be committing malpractice if he didn't bring our government's actions into the mix.
His practice has been to condemn the US without discretion. Look at how Aljazeera described our Mr. Clark: "The former top US justice official, who arrived on Tuesday in Jordan where the defence team is based, has become known as a left-wing lawyer and firm critic of US foreign policy since leaving office".
To be honest ... I'm not surprised with this news
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