I see the resemblance.
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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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I see the resemblance.
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Clark, Goering, Hess
OMG that too funny ROFL
Way to go kristinn!!
D.C. is such a target rich environment for FReepers.
Tell us; tell us!
Goering, ever the bully and coward, took his own life by means of a cyanide capsule rather than face justice.
I imagine Clark would do the same. Cowards are pretty predictable.
Hopefully the US guards have thoroughly searched Hussein several times so he won't be able to cheat the hangman.
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Thanks, Kristinn.
Reminds me of an incident back in the Vietnam era. Dean Rusk gave a talk at UVA, and some protesters had leaflets that said "If you were in Vietnam, this would be a bomb" that they were tossing from the balcony. At the end of the speech, one guy approached Dean and asked him to sign one of these. While he didn't sign it "Bombs away, Dean Rusk", as requested, he did autograph it. At least he had a sense of humor. True story, I swear. I was there.
Hess offed himself. Hmmmm.
Thanks for posting this. Hope to see you at Walter Reed tonight. I'm headed there now.
These days we'd get arrested for making a terrorist threat. Things were tough back then, but not everything had to be taken so seriously.
Wow...I wonder if Hess was reincarnated into a lower life form...
BTW you had a lot more restraint with that creep than I would have...
Hey, guy. Sometime in the next 10 days or so, CNN will be running a one hour special on Anderson Cooper 360 about Karl and the guys who were with him, and the families. I'll post when I know the actual date. It'll be called "Ambush at the River of Secrets".
Ramsey is a lost soul, and doesn't have a sense of humor either. I wonder what his father (Attorney General Tom Clark) would think if he could see what his son has become.
Bravo Zulu, Kristinn!
" told him, "I hoped Saddam goes to hell--and you too for that matter."
As much as I wanted to tell him off full blast, the concourse was not the right place to do that."
You done good girl, way to go
Congressman Billybob
Way to twist the knife, Kristinn. Clark AND his blood-soaked 'client' deserved it in spades.
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