The liberal anti-American (and former Democratic Attorney-General) who is defending Saddam Hussein in court is revealing his inner liberal. How proud this must make liberals.
Ramsey Clarke was the attorney-general under Democrat President Lyndon Johnson. More recently he has been involved with the far-left International Action Center, which has led demonstrations against the war in Iraq.
Ramsey Clarke was also the defender of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and accused war criminal, in a lawsuit brought by Muslim rape victims; and represented Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, the Rwandan pastor accused of summoning Hutu death squads to massacre Tutsis. Ultimately, over 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in that genocide under liberal Bill Clinton’s watch (and liberal Jean Chretien, and the liberal U.N.).
One of America’s most renowned human rights lawyers has astonished even close friends and supporters by taking on Saddam Hussein as a client and describing the former Iraqi dictator as “reserved, quiet, thoughtful and dignified”.
While most of the world regards Saddam as a brutal dictator who gassed entire villages, launched wars that cost millions of lives and murdered thousands of political opponents, Ramsey Clark, a former US Attorney General, said he had been unfairly “demonised” by his captors.
Mr Clark spoke about his client, who faces trial in an Iraqi court for war crimes, after returning to the US from Jordan, where he met other members of his legal team for the first time. He provoked a furore by declaring that Saddam had been subjected to “savage” treatment by his American captors and comparing it with the abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. “Demonisation is the most dangerous form of prejudice,” he said. “Once you call anything evil, it’s easy to justify anything you might do to harm that evil. Evil has no rights, it has no human dignity, it has to be destroyed. That’s how you get your Fallujahs, your Abu Ghraibs, your shock-and-awes.”
[…]Now he has unnerved even his admirers by defending a man accused of ordering 300,000 killings. […]
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