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From the Law Offices of Dewey, Cheatam and Howe

Well, well, look what we got here. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark has joined the legal team of Saddam Hussein. For some reason, the left thinks the title of "ex-attorney general" lends some sort of panache to having this man on Saddams side, but I think seeing Ramsey Clark on your legal team is like looking up and seeing a vulture circling overhead. It just does not bode well for your future, its like O.J. saying you were framed.

Let's take a look at the track record of this particularly fine legal mind.

- Represented Lyndon Larouche. Result? Lost the case, his client served time in prison and now serves as a footnote to whackjob history.

- Represented PLO leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer. The case was settled out of court and the results fundced the The Klinghoffer foundation (Klinghoffer v. PLO, 739 F. Supp. 854 (S.D.N.Y. 1990) and Klinghoffer v. PLO, 937 F.2d 44, 50 (2d Cir. 1991) ). This lawsuit spurred passage of the Antiterrorism Act of 1990 which made it easier for victims of terrorism to sue terrorists and collect civil damages for losses incurred.

- Represented Karl Linnas, an ex-Nazi concentration camp guard in Estonia. Lost the case, served time in a soviet prison and died there. At the time, Clark said " hunting Nazi war criminals was wrong on principle. He also said "I oppose the idea of regenerating hatreds and pursuits 40 years after the fact."

- Represented Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a leader of the Rwandan genocide. The Tribunal found it proven beyond reasonable doubt that Ntakirutimana had transported armed attackers to the Mugonero complex, where they killed hundreds of Tutsi refugees. Ntakirutimana was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.

- Represented Slobodan Milosevic against charges of War Crimes and genocide. The case is still pending.During this time he supported Serbian marches in New york City, where he was known to bellow out " "We've got to stop the fanning of flames of war by the U.S." and "We've got to abolish NATO."

- Represented Mahmoud El-Abed Ahmad against extradition to Israel, where he is wanted for murdering passengers in a bus.

- Represented Sheikh Rahman, head of Gama'a al-Islamyya. These are the terrorists who sliced noses and ears off some of the 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptian workers whom they slaughtered at Luxor in Egypt in 1997.

- Represented Jack/Jakob Riemer, former Nazi SS guard, accused of playing a supporting role during the liquidation of the Warsaw and Czestochowa ghettoes in World War II Poland.

- Represented Deposed President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. In June 2003, a United Nations justice tribunal issued a warrant for Taylor's arrest, charging him with war crimes. The UN asserts that Taylor created and backed rebels in Sierra Leone, which is accused of a range of atrocities, including the use of child soldiers. The civil war that he led in Liberia turned into an ethnic conflict, with seven factions fighting for control of Liberia's resources. Up to 200,000 people were killed and more than 1 million were forced from their homes. His administration also had harbored members of Al-Qaeda sought in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

When asked how he could defend such people, he responded "Lawyers defend people, That's what they're supposed to do." Yes, thats true sir, but on occasion, they win a case now and then just to make it look like all that money your parents spent sending you to law school amounted to something. Its one thing to have "the devils resume", but your track record of wins,losses and ties is pretty awful. How do you justify your hourly rate? Might there be a case for malpractice laying about they weeds? Kunstler and Kuby have defended some pretty disgusting people, but they also tend to win now and then.( Kuby does anyway, Kunstlers record has gone all to hell now that hes dead...)

Clark also cant miss any opportunity to be his own Secretary of State for the "Republic of Whackdonia".
For example:

- At the height of the Vietnam War ( 1972!), he flew to Hanoi and denounced the U.S. war effort.

(ed: no better evidence of our "national restraint" can be found outside of the the fact that wasnt summarily executed upon his return.)

- In 1980, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran, Clark flew to Tehran at the behest of President Carter to try to win the release of 53 American hostages. He flew home without the hostages, but then he returned to Iran and participated in a tribunal that convicted the United States of colluding in the Shah's crimes. That made Carter so mad he threatened to prosecute Clark for violating a ban on travel to Iran. Clark is reported by multiple sources to have taken part in a private meeting with the Ayatollah for 40 minutes.

Look at that, he made Carter "mad". How many times has that happened?

- In 1986, after the United States bombed Libya in response to a terrorist bombing of a Berlin disco, Clark flew to Tripoli, met with dictator Moammar Gaddafi and denounced the air raid. Later, he sued the U.S. government on behalf of Libyans killed and injured in the bombing, but the suit was thrown out of court.

Again I have to ask, what is it that people are paying for when you bill them for your services, Mr. Clark?

- In 1990, after the United States invaded Panama to arrest dictator Manuel Noriega for dope dealing, Clark flew to Panama, denounced the invasion and claimed Americans killed between 2,000 and 4,000 people. When a reporter asked him for evidence, Clark snapped, "You are an investigative journalist. You find the sources." A study by the independent Panamanian Committee for Human Rights later put the death toll at 565.

- Clark was in Basrah during the First Gulf War which has given his hours of time to spread lies and half truths about the First and Second Gulf Wars. He has b een reported as saying "We bombed them for 42 days in 1991, I was there for 14 of them. I drove 2,000 miles just seeing civilian damage. We were hitting every civilian thing you can think of -- taxicabs, school buses, mosques, synagogues, hospitals. I didn't see a hospital that had windows in it -- all of them were smashed! We dropped 88,500 tons of bombs! That's a Pentagon figure. That's 7 1/2 Hiroshimas! A hundred fifty thousand Iraqis died! We lost 155. That's a slaughter! That's a slaughter! You can't slaughter people like that!"

Ladies and Gentleman, You just cant buy that kind of hyperbole.

And just in case you think that the silliness is limited just to his views on Iraq, heres what he said about "The war that dare not speak its name" - Afghanistan.

"It was foolish from every standpoint. We shot the place up. It's totally out of control. We're going to have to find a way out somehow".

Multiple Elections. Written Constitution. Emanicipation of women. 2 million Refugees repatirated. Yeah... Totally out of control.

It should be noted that Ramsey Clark is supported by marxist/leninists such as A.N.S.W.E.R and World Workers Party (WWP). And who is the WWP? on May 10 2002, FBI Director Louis Freeh said the WWP is part of a group of "Anarchists and extremist socialist groups many of which, have an international presence and, at times, also represent a potential threat in the United States." And International A.N.S.W.E.R? Its a front group for the WWP, who by the way also support Cindy Sheehan.

Not that anyone at CNN cares, since they made Ex-Attorney General Ramsey Clark their "poster boy" today. He's against Bush, how bad can he be?

Posted @ November 27, 2005 09:11 PM | Current Affairs