Ramsey Clark: Saddam Not Brutal

Newsmax ^ | 3/30/03 | Newsmax

[bedolido]

Appeasement movement leader and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark defended Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Friday, saying that reports of his brutality were part of a U.S.-backed disinformation campaign.

Asked about an eyewitness account of the torture death of an Iraqi dissident who was put in a glass cage and eaten alive by dogs while Saddam and other top leaders watched, Clark told WLIE-NY radio's Mike Siegel, "That's the most absurd story I've heard in a long time."

"Propaganda can be pretty vicious," the appeasement activist warned before trashing the torture account a second time. "If you believe that, you're a hopeless case."

[bedolido]

commie-pinko

[WellsFargo94]

What is he thinking???

[dirtboy]

Glenn Beck ripped Ramsey a new one on his show today, quoting from that Bush Admin media flack Nat Hentoff in that corporate media mouthpiece the Village Voice...

[dirtboy]

What is he thinking???

That's the problem - Ramsey quit thinking a long, long time ago. Now he just reacts - if the U.S. is doing it, it must be evil and the target must be A-OK.

[Semper Paratus]

He's a professional anti-american.

One who makes their living trashing the USA.
See, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Tom Daschle.

[stanz]

He is incapable of rational thought. His brain is rotted from marijuana contact high from the association with the likes of Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, the Berrigan brothers, and the Black panthers of times gone by.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Ramsey

[Mark17]

What is he thinking???

He is not capable of thinking. As Attorney General, in the war on crime, he was considered a conscientious objector.

[Cachelot]

Uh-oh. Old Ramsey just shot himself in the mouth :)).

[Weimdog]

Hey Ramsey, tell that to the Iraqi soccer team...

"When we arrived, they took off our shirts, tied our feet together and pulled our knees over a bar as we lay on our backs. Then they dragged us over pavement and concrete, pulling the skin off our backs. Then they pulled us through a sandpit to get sand in our backs. Finally, they made us climb a ladder and jump into a vat of raw sewage. They wanted to get our wounds infected. The next day, and for every day we were there, they beat our feet. My punishment, because I was a star player, was 20 [lashings] per day. I asked the guard how he could ever forgive himself. He laughed and told me if he didn't do this, Uday would do it to him. Uday made us athletes an example. He believed that if people saw he was not afraid to beat a hero, that they would live in greater fear."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2003/03/24/son_of_saddam/

Ramsey Clark should be dragged behind a truck and then dunked in human waste!

[Cincinatus]

Actually, Ramsey Clark is so outrageous, you have to wonder what his game really is. Nobody, not even the most gullible leftists, can possibly believe his crap. He's long since passed the realm of the plausible -- he's on the outer fringes of Wonderland.

My theory? He's conjured up this "extreme-leftist-who-only-wants-the-best-for-Amerika" schtick to con donations out of the lamebrained liberal sheeple with more money than sense.

[cinFLA]

Appeasement movement leader and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark

Anti-US movement leader Ramsey Clark.

BTW, he only made AG so his father would agree to step down from the USSC to make an opening for a younger, more liberal appointment.

[bedolido]

what I don't understand is why he stays? Or why any of them stay for that matter.

[dirtboy]

Uh-oh. Old Ramsey just shot himself in the mouth :)).

In the mouth AND the foot. Simultaneously...

[truthkeeper]

Throw this guy on the slagheap with Michael Moore and Scott Ritter.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He is thinking that if he doesn't keep yapping like the rabid lap dog he is, no one will pay to hear his worthless opinion.

[cinFLA]

Actually, Ramsey Clark is so outrageous, you have to wonder what his game really is. Nobody, not even the most gullible leftists, can possibly believe his crap. He's long since passed the realm of the plausible -- he's on the outer fringes of Wonderland. My theory? He's conjured up this "extreme-leftist-who-only-wants-the-best-for-Amerika" schtick to con donations out of the lamebrained liberal sheeple with more money than sense.

Actually, he is now deeple embedded with the socialist/communist movement. Many on the left support his "schtick" for it is their "schtick" also.

[theDentist]

"If you believe that, you're a hopeless case."

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[cinFLA]

Nobody, not even the most gullible leftists, can possibly believe his crap.

Call you local paper and ask the editor what he believes about the "peace activists". See that they are always the nicest people; never described as the communists that they are. Never described as anti-US. If you mention they are you will be branded as a right-wing ideologue that watches FOX news.

[m1911]

Wow. Even Amnesty International has been turned into a propaganda piece for the war, I suppose:

Scores of people, including possible prisoners of conscience and armed forces officers suspected of planning to overthrow the government, were executed. Scores of suspected anti-government opponents, including people suspected of having contacts with opposition groups in exile, were arrested. The fate and whereabouts of most of those arrested, including those detained in previous years, remained unknown. Several people were given lengthy prison terms after grossly unfair trials before special courts. Torture and ill-treatment of political prisoners and detainees were systematic. The two Kurdish political parties controlling Iraqi Kurdistan detained prisoners of conscience, and armed political groups were reportedly responsible for abductions and killings.

Torture and ill-treatment

Political prisoners and detainees were subjected to systematic torture. The bodies of many of those executed had evident signs of torture. Common methods of physical torture included electric shocks or cigarette burns to various parts of the body, pulling out of fingernails, rape, long periods of suspension by the limbs from either a rotating fan in the ceiling or from a horizontal pole, beating with cables, hosepipe or metal rods, and falaqa (beating on the soles of the feet). In addition, detainees were threatened with rape and subjected to mock execution. They were placed in cells where they could hear the screams of others being tortured and were deliberately deprived of sleep.

• In March 'Abd al-Wahad al-Rifa'i, a 58-year-old retired teacher, was executed by hanging after he had been held in prison without charge or trial for more than two years. He was suspected of having links with the opposition through his brother who lived abroad. His family in Baghdad collected his body from the Baghdad Security Headquarters. The body reportedly bore clear marks of torture, with the toenails pulled out and the right eye swollen.
• In July, two men, Zaher al-Zuhairi and Fares Kadhem 'Akla, reportedly had their tongues cut out for slandering the President, by members of Feda'iyye Saddam, a militia created in 1994 by 'Uday Saddam Hussein, the President's eldest son. The amputations took place in a public square in Diwaniya City, south of Baghdad.

But I suppose that's the kind of right-wing propoganda the Ramsey Clark has come to expect from those reactionaries at Amnesty International.
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