Iraq to Ramsey Clark: Go Home

Iraqis know what Saddam Hussein did to their country. The hundreds of thousands killed, tortured, raped, and mutilated during Saddam's rule. The landscape that was permanently scarred by the environmental 'policies' that went hand-in-hand with the genocide of the Marsh Arabs. The draining of the swamps and marshlands to flush out the Marsh Arabs and Shi'a who took refuge there.

And yet there appears to be no stronger defender of Saddam Hussein than Ramsey Clark, who now runs ANSWER (the far left anti-American organization), and who seeks to find fault with every bit of American foreign policy that doesn't adhere to his extremely limited and deranged worldview.

Ramzi Clark and the so called (Al-Niami) from Qatar with their support for Saddam are the enemy of the Iraqi people especially the victims of tyrant. Both of them are undesirable and not welcomed to be in Iraq.

The Judge should have prevented RC and Naimi from attending the trial for many reasons. One of the important reasons is that both of them are not registered as solicitors with the Solicitors Union of Iraq and RC may not even in his own country. The other good reason to prevent these enemies of the Iraqi people from attending the trial is that the trial is a national Iraqi one and not Qatari or American trial. The trial is a national one so as in the Iraqi language which is Arabic and no need at all to translate for RC. On the other hand RC used this to show a political position against his own government however money is still paid by Saddam's daughters.

Noted by Mudville Gazette Greyhawk also provides a brief (well, compared to War and Peace perhaps) history of the long war with Iraq, that goes back to the 1990 Gulf War buildup.

Omar at Iraq the Model thinks that Ramsey's worth a good laugh - for his sartorial choices. Agreed. Sharon Hughes wonders what the heck Clark is doing there in the first place. Right Thinking From the Left Coast thinks that the only folks who doubt whether Saddam did these crimes is the far Left wingnuts who would let Saddam slide because he once shook hands with Rumsfeld.

Letters from a Bostonian exile makes an interesting observation, based on an earlier posting by Eric at Classical Values: If the war was illegal, what legitimacy does the court have to try Saddam in the first place. After all, the anti-war folks should be decrying the legitimacy of the court and this is the logical conclusion. The silence from these folks is deafening.

Also blogging Ramsey's appearance: smokerblog, The Houston Conservative (who finds that the French have more common sense than Clark, even if it's a little too late), and Marc Cooper who points out that Ramsey's presence is only for political purposes, not to provide any real legal assistance as Saddam and his cohorts already have hundreds of attorneys working for them.

UPDATE 12/1/2005:
Newsbusters also notes the Ramsey Clark adoration club in the media.