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.
Saddam is a ruthless murderer and tyrant...if given the opportunity, he would be again, even worse. If allowed to live, he will remain a rallying point for those fighting against a free Iraq. I hope the Iraqis execute him with extreme prejudice and dispatch.
I can't wait for this idiot to die so I can take a hot steaming crap on his grave! Scumbag traitor!
Can't we hang him for treason?
I think the Iraqi's should institute a policy that, if you are one of Saddam's lawyers, and he loses in the trial, you will be executed along with him.
bump for thursday update.
He's got my vote for the DNC chair.
Gets my vote.
The only surprises here are that (1) he's alive and (2) he's still mentally present enough to practice law (mental presence being a relative thing, of course).
BWAAAAHAAAHAA!
That's a GREAT idea!
LOL! Too funny! Saddam's verdict and sentence are already determined. The trial is purely for show. He will be assuming room temperature in 2005.
What, y'all didn't send him a happy 77th birthday card last week?
Saddam is entitled to a lawyer. This is no different than John Adams defending British soldiers who killed Americans during at the Boston Massacre. I think Adams said at the time something to the effect that the cause for self-government would be damaged if Boston justice turned out to be little more than lynch law.
Ramsey Clark is a calamity. He is even more of a traitor than Jane Fonda and John Kerry.
This guy...
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