Ramsey Clark -- every dictator and genocidal killer's friend
By Aussiegirl
Christopher Hitchens fillets Ramsey Clarke -- that oleaginous little weasel presently engaged in defending the indefensible. How long will it be before the Michael Moores of this world and the Cindy Sheehans hitch their wagons to Saddam's cause, bewailing and bemoaning his unfair treatment at the hands of those Iraqis who demand justice. Are "Free Saddam" tee-shirts far behind?
I'm with the average Iraqi who says -- he did it, we all know he did it, give him a quick trial and get on with the execution. These lawyers seem to occupy that same alternate moral universe that journalists do.
FrontPage magazine.com :: Ramsey Clark in Baghdad by Christopher Hitchens
From bullying prosecutor he mutated into vagrant and floating defense counsel, offering himself to the génocideurs of Rwanda and to Slobodan Milosevic, and using up the spare time in apologetics for North Korea. He acts as front-man for the Workers World Party, an especially venomous little Communist sect, which originated in a defense of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956.
I was wondering when Clark would pop up in Baghdad, and there he was last Monday, presenting his credentials to the judge in the Saddam Hussein case and being accepted at his face value as a defense spokesman. He lost no time in showing what he is made of.
The first charge being brought against Saddam Hussein is that in 1982, after his motorcade came under fire near the mainly Shi'ite town of Dujail, he ordered the torture and murder of 148 men and boys. It's a relatively minor item in the catalog, but there it is. The first prosecution witness in the case, Wadah al-Sheikh, has actually testified that he knows of no direct link between Saddam and the killings. The defense team has to hope that it can prove the same, or perhaps suggest that no such massacre occurred. Not so Ramsey Clark. In a recent BBC interview, he offered the excuse that Iraq was then fighting the Shi'ite nation of Iran:
He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt.
Just go back and read that again. Ramsey Clark believes that A) the massacre and torture did occur and B) that it was ordered by his client and C) that he was justified in ordering it and carrying it out.
posted by Aussiegirl @ 3:36 PM
3 Comments:
I think "W" could give the libs what they want ~ an admission that he made a "mistake" in Iraq. He should have said it was wrong not to have called in Haliburton (since they are the "evil" business in Iraq) to fill in Saddam's rat hole with some cement as soon as he was discovered nearly a year ago. Yes, with him in it. Thank goodness his boys tried to fight when they were cornered and they've already gone off to meet whatever it is Allah has in store for them.
The left has chosen to disbelieve reality, and this is a natural outgrowth of such madness. If the only evil you chose to believe in is George Bush, OF COURSE you`ll want to free Saddam!
Kooks!
I now agree with Piano Girl; Saddam should have been field-executed. (My wife thought so at the time, but I stupidly thought a big, showy trial would work better for building a new Iraq; I forgot how insane the left is.)
Maybe Ramsey Clark should volunteer to join those ``peace activists`` being held by the Mujihadeen (Much-a-hatin?)
Ramsey Clark was a long time Usefull Idiot for the communists and he obviously has stayed the course for the new despots in town
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