Ramsey Clark - Useful Idiot for Evil
Published Sun, Nov 5 2006 12:02 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
Baghdad, November 5: The judge presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others on charges of crimes against humanity ejected former US attorney general Ramsey Clark from the court on Sunday for insulting the tribunal.
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The judge, Raouf Abdul Rahman, ejected Clark because he had sent a memo to Abdul Rahman including the accusation that the tribunal was making "a mockery of justice".
The judge told him in Arabic: "No, you are the mockery ... get him out, out."
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"You come from America and ridicule the Iraqi people," he said.
In October, Ramsey Clark criticized the judges because they were "selected, trained, paid, protected by the United States."
According to one U.S. official "There was never an attempt to defend Saddam on the basis of the evidence".
Clark tried to turn the trial into an indictment of the U.S. and the West. I don't think this was about guilt or innocence for him. I think it was an opportunity to undermine the administration in the court of world opinion.
As for Saddam, he's guilty. During the trial at one time he got up and all but admitted that he ordered the destruction of Dujail as retribution for an assassination attempt in 1982. That's what the trial was really about. It wasn't a referendum on the West. It was a trial for a murderous thug, and justice too long delayed.
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