? ? Anyone have a copy of the Ramsey Clark ED. in the LATimes??

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They've put it in the archives and now you have to pay for it on the LATimes website. Thought someone might have captured it. I saw Clark interviewed on the Washington Journal rerun last night and would like to read. thanks in advance.

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1. Here's Link

http://c-span.org/Search/advanced.asp?AdvancedQueryText=ramsey+clarke&StartDateMonth=1&StartDateYear=2005&EndDateMonth=&EndDateYear=&Series=&ProgramIssue=&QueryType=&QueryTextOptions=&ResultCount=10&SortBy=bestmatch

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2. Thank you Ivote!!!!!!!

thanks, but I already SAW the program and I was looking for the text of his editorial. I'll keep looking.

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3. You're Welcome

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4. Here's the text link...

Thanks again....http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-clark24jan24,1,6939035.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions&ctrack=3&cset=true

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5. Court should have power to consider charges against Bush?

January 24, 2005

COMMENTARY
Why I'm Willing to Defend Hussein

By Ramsey Clark, Ramsey Clark was attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson.


<snip>International law requires that every criminal court be competent, independent and impartial. The Iraqi Special Tribunal lacks all of these essential qualities. It was illegitimate in its conception — the creation of an illegal occupying power that demonized Saddam Hussein and destroyed the government it now intends to condemn by law. <snip>

The intention of the United States to convict the former leader in an unfair trial was made starkly clear by the appointment of Chalabi's nephew to organize and lead the court. He had just returned to Iraq to open a law office with a former law partner of Defense Undersecretary Douglas J. Feith, who had urged the U.S. overthrow of the Iraqi government and was a principal architect of U.S. postwar planning.<snip>


Finally, any court that considers criminal charges against Saddam Hussein must have the power and the mandate to consider charges against leaders and military personnel of the U.S., Britain and the other nations that participated in the aggression against Iraq, if equal justice under law is to have meaning.<snip>


The defense of such a case is a challenge of great importance to truth, the rule of law and peace. A lawyer qualified for the task and able to undertake it, if chosen, should accept such service as his highest duty.

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6. Letter, SD North County Times: Ramsey Clark upholds integrity of liberty

Ramsey Clark upholds integrity of liberty

I read Charles Bondy's Jan. 23 letter on Ramsey Clark's offer of representation for Saddam Hussein. Sounds like he would prefer Hussein find justice the same way Mussolini did. I'm sure others would agree. That, however, is not our way.

Our nation was founded on the principle of law. Providing counsel and trial for even the worst of criminals has its origin in the very foundation of our Constitution. Hermann Goering and his Nazi brethren, the greatest evil the world has ever seen, had lawyers and began trials for war crimes only six months after Germany fell.

Hussein has been locked away for over a year, without visitation or representation and without trial. While I'm sure this brings no tears to Bondy's eyes nor most others, this is not representative of our great system of government.

If we are to be the light and beacon of liberty to the world that the president spoke to in his inaugural, then let us demonstrate the integrity of that conviction without duplicity. Thomas Paine said, "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

THOMAS R. GODWIN
Oceanside

From http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/02/03/opinion/letters/2_2_0522_15_57.txt