Wesley Clark calls for transparant trial of Saddam

AP ^ | 12/14/03 | ANTHONY DEUTSCH

[2nd amendment mama]

The retired general and former NATO (news - web sites) commander said Saddam's capture was welcome news that could have an impact on the anti-coalition insurgency in Iraq (news - web sites).

"I hope this will see a diminishing in the violence against American soldiers in Iraq," he told reporters as he arrived in the Netherlands.

Clark did not say who should try Saddam, but said the trial should be conducted with "the highest legal standards. There can be absolutely no doubt about the rights of the accused."

The case "needs to be as public as possible and the evidence needs to be aired and charges brought," he said.

Clark, contesting for the Democratic nomination for president, declined to comment when asked how Saddam's capture could affect the race or the standings of President George W. Bush (news - web sites).

Clark was on his way to The Hague (news - web sites) where he has been summoned to testify in the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites).

He was to appear in closed session before the U.N. tribunal Monday and Tuesday, but at the insistence of the U.S. government publication of his testimony was being delayed until Friday to allow it to be reviewed and edited of comments deemed compromising to U.S. national security.

As the former supreme commander of NATO, Clark led a 78-day bombing campaign in 1999 aimed at expelling Milosevic's Yugoslav forces involved in a bloody crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Clark also had extensive contacts with Milosevic when he served as director of strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the mid-1990s when the United States was trying to negotiate an end to the war in Bosnia.

[discostu]

Wesley is such an idiot. A transparent trial during the summer would be the single most effective campaign commercial Bush could ask for, having the proof of Saddam's aggression against America and weapons laid right out possibly even coming from his own mouth would destroy the Democratic candidate by validating everything Bush has said for the last two years. We should all thank Wesley for giving Bush the opening to make this trial wide open without criticism.

[solitas]

Clark did not say who should try Saddam, but said the trial should be conducted with "the highest legal standards. There can be absolutely no doubt about the rights of the accused." The case "needs to be as public as possible and the evidence needs to be aired and charges brought," he said.

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[river rat]

Someone inform the effeminate little bastard, that the Texas Ranger doesn't need any of his ridiculous advise..

Clark should crawl back into Hillary's "lap", and assume the fetal position..... He's dead.

Semper Fi

[Right_in_Virginia]

Clark did not say who should try Saddam, but said the trial should be conducted with "the highest legal standards. There can be absolutely no doubt about the rights of the accused."

I see Clark's speaking without his talking points again.

[Drango]

Can we force the Dutch to keep him?

LOL

[headsonpikes]

Weasly could speak to Johnny Cochrane about representing Saddam.

'If there's no WMDs, then you must release!'

[2nd amendment mama]

I see Clark's speaking without his talking points again.

Oh Mary....Mary....Help!!!! Just what did Hitlery say that I'm supposed to say???

[Maria S]

"Clark is NUTS and don't forget....He's Hillary's flunky!!!"


BINGO! And it is now 11:07 CDT and I have yet to hear any official “statement” from the lovely miz Clinton! Many of the other ‘important’ congress people have already made their official comments, including Howard Dean, Joe Biden, etc. Surely Hillary has SOMETHING to say?!?

[Uncle George]

Transparent trial:" See Fritz, I told you if we save the GLASS CAGE from the Nuerinenberg trials we will some day need it again!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Qui !

[Free_at_last_-2001]

There can be absolutely no doubt about the rights of the accused. - "Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights" - Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry

[2nd amendment mama]

LOL.....

[Piquaboy]

No one could stand the stink in Hillary's lap, not even Wesley.

[Wolfstar]

Someone needs to investigate Clark's transparent head. They won't find anything between the ears except those strange eyes.

[ntnychik]

Do you need Miranda rights if one of America's finest kindly helps you out of your rat hole?

[2nd amendment mama]

ROTFLMAO!!!! PETA will probably argue that rats have rights too....lol