(Ramsey) Clark assails Iraqi trial of Saddam Hussein

[Barrett808]

Clark assails Iraqi trial of Saddam Hussein
By Vicki Allen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a member of Saddam Hussein's defense team, on Tuesday said the former Iraqi president's trial was a sham designed to justify the U.S.-led invasion.

Saddam's trial on charges of crimes against humanity was "a direct threat to international law, the United Nations, universal human rights and world peace," Clark said at a news conference. He demanded that proceedings be transferred from the Iraqi Special Tribunal to a new court that could work independently, free of prejudice.

Clark, who was attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson from 1967-1969, said the United States wanted the trial to "vindicate its invasion, to validate its occupation, and to make the world believe that the Iraqi people demanded that Saddam Hussein and leaders in his government be executed."

Clark has become known for his radical left-wing politics and for defending controversial figures, including ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor, former Yugoslav president

Slobodan Milosevic, who died in April, and Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a leader in the Rwandan genocide.

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[liberalpragmatist]

1. Go Away Ramsey

Liberals don't need illiberal authoritarians like Ramsey Clark and ANSWER hijacking liberal viewpoints for their own twisted purposes.

* For the record, I'm fine with giving Saddam Hussein a fair trial; my beef isn't with that but with Clark's own grandstanding and illiberal politics.

[CJCRANE]

2. I don't necessarily agree

with Clark about Saddam but I think we need people like him who believe in the correct and neutral process of law.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Anyone that expedites the removal of the PNACers from the WH is ok with me

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GIVE 'ER!!

[Jim Sagle]

4. Red Ramsey is a piece of CommuNazi filth.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Clark is known for his "radical left-wing politics."

ChimpCo is known for it's "visionary execution of complicated ideas."

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