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December 6, 2005
Ramsey Clark/Saddam Hussein - 'Old School' Chums Clinging To Non Reality
Topics: IraqThe testimony in general was very touching that it forced the butchers to shut up for a long time and even when Saddam tried to act as if he were still in power he looked so stupid and foolishly arrogant in front of the suffering of the witness who finished his statement by saying "at age 15 I went to prison for 4 years with the rest of my family, seven of my brothers were executed and none of us got the chance to see a judge or get a fair trial'.
Mohammed at Iraq The Model provides us a description of a Saddam Defense that seems more like a team of old school chums trying to cling to the past, while ignoring the present, and moving within a cloud of non-reality.
As for Clark, a former colleague from the Johnson administration once described him as having "drifted so far out on the fringe as to become "amusing."" The same can be said for his new buddy, Saddam Hussein - who's antics would be amusing were he not a former murdering dictator responsible for the deaths of thousands of his citizens. This, as witnesses begin to describe the events for which Saddam is being prosecuted:
At the beginning (as you might have seen) the defense tried to disrupt the court by questioning the legitimacy of the court and the laws under which it was formed but these were futile attempts because the lawyers built their allegations of older Security Council resolutions that are irrelevant to the trial and they ignored the later resolutions that transferred sovereignty to Iraqi hands and they also ignored the regulations issued by the elected government and parliament that organized the court months after Paul Bremer left Iraq.
The theatrical act of walking away from the court only to return back soon after was actually pathetic and unconvincing and when Ramzi Clark and the Qatari lawyer Najeeb Noaimi were given the time to talk they returned to talk about things like occupation and that again they concentrated on UN and international laws and conventions when it came to the legitimacy of the past regime while they didn't refer to any of the laws and resolutions that recognize the legitimacy of the current government and the political process in general.Unlike the clips shown on American TV and described in the press, Mohammed describes a flustered Ramsey Clark, and witnesses who showed up to testify in spite of "all what we heard from the media that witnesses are scared to death and they wouldn't show up!"
Ramsey Clark is an old-school liberal with a long history of controversial clients, that has been out of touch with reality long before he served with the Carter administration, and he's defending a man of equal mind - both lost in the past and avoiding reality. As Mohammed writes, the fact is that a massacre was committed and those who did it shall face justice.
Posted by Richard at December 6, 2005 5:52 AM
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