Ramsey Clark: Smoking Crack
December 5, 2005, 6:49 pm |
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So now Ramsey Clark (D) is defending Saddam. Is this what the Democratic Party has come to represent? Michael Moore, another radical and complete hypocrite, was an honored guest at the last Democratic National Convention. So Clark’s in good company, right? This former U.S. attorney general has advised people like David Koresh and has hung out with Muammar Gaddafi and Slobodan Milosevic. Clark doesn’t think the Butcher of Baghdad was all that bad of a fellow, after all. From NewsMax.com:
Asked about an eyewitness account of the torture death of an Iraqi dissident who was eaten alive by dogs while Saddam watched, Clark told KTTH Seattle radio host Mike Siegel, “That’s the most absurd story I’ve heard in a long time.”
“Propaganda can be pretty vicious,” he warned.
Instead, Saddam’s legal eagle blamed the victim’s execution on “people working for the [Iraqi] government, apparently.” Asked if Saddam controlled the government at the time, Clark told Siegel, “The government is a lot of people.”
The former U.S. attorney general challenged the credibility of Saddam’s accusers, saying their accounts can’t be trusted.
“I’ve worked with problems of defection and informers for years and years and they’re not generally reliable,” he explained. “You have to be careful about who you’re talking to.”
Clark said the allegations against his future client were “garbage and propaganda,” while insisting that U.S.-backed economic sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s amounted to “absolute genocide.”
During Saddam’s trial today:
Ahmed Hassan Mohammed detailed the killing of 148 people in the village of Dujail, north of Baghdad, in 1982.
The Iraqi forces’ torture equipment included a mincing machine sometimes fed with living human bodies, he said. …
Ahmed Hassan Mohammed gave a rambling, emotional and sometimes deeply moving account of suffering, says the BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson, inside the Baghdad courtroom.
He told how women and children were tortured, and said that dead babies were often abandoned in public.
By any rational account, e.g., even the BBC, Saddam’s term in office left an estimated 300,000 dead Iraqis in some 260 mass graves, 40 of which have been confirmed to date. Saddam’s rule meant torture chambers, dropping poison gas on civilians, starting an 8-year war with Iran which claimed a million lives, etc.
Just what are Clark and his Democratic friends smoking?
Related: Political Correctness
December 7th, 2005 at 2:10 am
clark does not represent Democrats. He’s a vicious nazi scumbag. I’m really tired of people lumping together every far left whack-job with liberals and Democrats. People should be able to distinguish.
December 7th, 2005 at 2:13 am
In fact clark has absolutely nothing to do with the Democratic party. He hates the Dems as much as the GOP. If you would bother to seek out all the facts you would know this.
December 7th, 2005 at 11:33 am
Here’s Clark’s record:
“…nominated U.S. Assistant Attorney General by President John F. Kennedy (D) in 1961, a post he held for four years.”
“In 1965 he was nominated deputy attorney general by President Lyndon B. Johnson (D). He remained in that position until Johnson moved him up to Attorney General in 1967, a job that ended with the start of the Nixon presidency in January 1969.”
“In 1974 he was the Democratic Party’s candidate for the United States Senate from New York…”
“VoteToImpeach is an organization, associated with Ramsey Clark, which advocates the impeachment of the current U.S. President, George W. Bush, and several members of his administration.” [Ya’ think any Republicans are part of this?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoteToImpeach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Clark
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B153256.htm
December 15th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Laura: I’m really tired of people lumping together every far left whack-job with liberals and Democrats. People should be able to distinguish.
What you said, is absolutely correct as stated. And, when people put you, a decent person in company with scumbags, you have the right to feel offended.
What you said is not the whole truth, however: decent people have a moral obligation to disassociate themselves from the scumbags. The Democratic (your?) Party does not. Not only it has not disassociated itself from Michael Moor, Clark and others — it celebrates them! Nor has a single Democrat expressed indignation, for instance, when far-Left used infiltrated the laser Republican convention — truly the methods of Nazi storm troopers. Many more examples may be given.
People do have the right to judge you by the company you keep. As long as you employ — and even celebrate! — Nazi-like ultra-leftists; as long as your elected leaders, such as Boxer, continue to spew anti-Americanism of every shape and form — people have the right to view that Party as anti-American. It is, after all, a Party that enjoys the company of scumbags.
Your indignation, however understandable, is misplaced.