RAMSEY CLARK IS THE LEADER OF ANSWER:
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.sht...003/3/30/124708 Peace movement leader and human rights activist, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, defended Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Friday, saying that reports of his brutality were part of a U.S.-backed disinformation campaign.
Asked about an eyewitness account of the torture death of an Iraqi dissident who was put in a glass cage and eaten alive by dogs while Saddam and other top leaders watched, Clark told WLIE-NY radio's Mike Siegel, "That's the most absurd story I've heard in a long time."
"Propaganda can be pretty vicious," the antiwar activist warned before trashing the torture account a second time, saying, "If you believe that, you're a hopeless case."
Clark did, however, acknowledge the truthfulness of reports that Saddam Hussein's son-in-law was murdered after he defected in the 1990's and was then persuaded to return, but he declined the pin the blame on the Iraqi leader.
Instead the human rights activist blamed the man's execution on "people working for the [Iraqi] government, apparently."
Asked if Saddam controlled the government at the time, Clark responded, "The government is a lot of people."
The antiwar leader said that other accounts from Iraqi defectors who have described Saddam's brutality, as well as reports of terrorist training operations inside Iraq, were probably false.
"I've worked with problems of defection and informers for years and years and they're not generally reliable," Clark told WLIE. "You have to be careful about who you're talking to. I also recognize propaganda. And I hear more garbage and propaganda coming out about how evil the Iraqi people are."
He then chastised radio host Siegel for spreading accounts of Saddam's brutality, complaining, "I think you're just fantasizing with propaganda. It shows your own hatred and narrow-mindedness."
Minutes later, the former U.S. attorney general condemned U.S.-backed economic sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s, calling them, "absolute genocide."