Or maybe he would prefer the Ceausescu option ....
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.
I loathe Ramsey Clark more than anyone, but he's almost doing us a favor here. All this guy does is bring attention to the incontrovertible fact that hard-core liberals are allied with the most despicable enemies of the U.S. in the world. His mere presence in a cause helps to further discredit the liberals (which is becoming increasingly difficult). It's enough to make me wonder (jokingly) whether he's a deep cover CIA agent used to discredit whatever agenda the communist/dictator sympathizers are coming up with next.
Kerry would have appointed Clark as Homeland Security Director, if he would have been elected.
Your pic should be captioned:
"OK, who cut that smelly fart?"
Why can't we try Ramsey Clark for giving aid and comfort to the enemy?
Or maybe he would prefer the Ceausescu option ....
>>He's got my vote for the DNC chair.<<
Or the electric chair.
The Constitution says in Article III, Section 3, clause 1 that
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
Attempting – in open Court – to attach oneself to explicitly aid a deposed tyrant and enemy of the United States, an individual who is responsible not only for the torture and murder of his own citizens, but the deaths of American soldiers is pretty bad, but it is probably not treason.
They should put on a deserted island somewhere. Preferably an atol used for nuclear testing. Both of them
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