Posted on 12/29/2006 2:18:04 PM PST by Tom the Redhunter
From today's Washington Times "Inside the Beltway"column:
Kristinn Taylor, president of the local Free Republic chapter, was walking through the concourse of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday afternoon when he spotted one of Saddam Hussein's attorneys, Ramsey Clark, who was attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson."As we walked by each other in the uncrowded terminal, I made a slashing motion across my neck and said to him, 'It's too bad about Saddam,' " in reference to the deposed Iraqi tyrant's failed judicial appeal to avert his death sentence. At that point, he said, Mr. Clark "glanced back at me with a hangdog look and nodded his head in sad agreement."
Mr. Clark last year explained in an op-ed essay in the Los Angeles Times why he was willing to defend Hussein. He acknowledged that a majority of the media were dismissive of him. " 'There goes Ramsey Clark again,' they seemed to say. 'Isn't it a shame? He used to be attorney general of the United States and now look at what he's doing.' "
He's not deterred. "The United States, and the Bush administration in particular, engineered the demonization of Hussein, and it has a clear political interest in his conviction," he wrote. "Obviously, a fair trial of Hussein will be difficult to ensure — and critically important to the future of democracy in Iraq. This trial will write history, affect the course of violence around the world and have an impact on hopes for reconciliation within Iraq." Meanwhile, in Baghdad, the hangman is testing his noose.
Rock on, Kristinn!
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As Ann Coulter said, Ramsey Clark was appointed Attorney General by LBJ. That fact alone should disqualify Democrats from ever serving as President again.
Some people have no shame.
chuckle!
Yes he deserved what he got by swingin on the end of the noose. But he was our operative during Reagan and the war Iran in the 1980s.
Also let me say that I support the war in Iraq and the war on terror for one and only one reason. We are killing terrorists over there instead of on our own streets. I do not support nation building, it simply does not work.
Thanks
Actually, you ought be recommended for sainthood! I don't think I would have been so gentlemanly as you.
I think you mean Rudolf Hess:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/Images/Rudolf_Hess.jpg
You're right, I did, and that was my point. Pls see my post
at #43 where I pulled up and posted photos of Clark and Rudolph Hess. I find the resemblance eerie -- not just the physical image, but the persona, the inner person. The sense of not being filled with light, to put it one way.
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