Saddam Trial Continues

Doddering Old Despot Decides on Doddering Old Demagogue for Defense

In a not so suprising move, this morning, Saddam Hussein has named Ramsey Clark to his defense team. For those unfamiliar with Clark, he is a former U.S. Attorney General under the Johnson Administration back in the sixties. He's a Texan, borni Dallas and a UT Grad. He was an active force in the Civil Rights movement and was against the war in Viet Nam. Some of the people he has provided legal counsel for in the past include: Quasi-religious loony David Koresh, Indian radical/murderer Leonard Peltier, Seventh-Day Advantist/Rawandan Tutsi killer Ezaphan Ntakirutimana, Cowardly Florida National Guard deserter Camilo Mejia, and Bloodthirsty Serbian bastard/Father of ther term "Ethnic Cleansing" Slobodan Milosevic.
He is presently active with an orginization that is seeking to impeach the current President Bush. He has been against both Gulf Wars, has been trying to get onto the Saddam Defense team since last year, and, now, it looks like the old man will get his chance.
In one of his books, "The Fire This Time", popular with Lefties and Radicals alike, he gives detailed information on how badly the U.N. Sanctions were hurting Iraq, accused the first Bush Administration of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, and called for the extridition of Bush, Quayle, Cheny, Powell, et. al. to the Hague for punishment.
Now, one of my former employers, back in the late 90's, knew him personally, and assured me that the man was a Patriot and Gentleman, but all that asside, some people seem to be shocked and suprised that Saddam has added him to his legal team. The term "traitor" has been tossed around all morning by people who haven't really given this alot of thought.
The truth is that, if one takes a look at Clarks record with these thugs, it might ba good thing. Look at it, Koresh is toast, Peltier will never again breath the sweet air of freedom, Ntakirutimanawas and his son were convicted of genocide, Mejia spent a year in prison and is branded forever as a deserter, and the other, well, the jury is still out on that evil Serbian thug, but the hounds will come for his ass soon enough. The point is that, with luck, Clarks presence on the Saddam team will have the same effect it had with the others, which is Not a Whole Lot...Besides that, when Saddam gets his Kurd killing ass convicted, none of the America Haters and Saddam Lovers can say that he didn't have access to a fair and compitant legal defense, and that, ny Freaky Darlings, is Priceless.