Reply #65: Clark is nuts

[fujiyama]

He's the type that is willing to defend (and not just in a court of law) any dictator around the world. He has a knee jerk tendancy to blame the US for absolutely everything. He may be right about Abu Grhaib, the war, and the way the US has recently behaved.

That said, I don't think he'd be a good communicator for the left or the anti war movement. Here's an interesting paragraph from an article in common dreams, written by David Corn:

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1031-08.htm

"The IAC, another WWP offshoot, was a key partner with ANSWER in promoting the protest. It was founded by Ramsey Clark, attorney general for President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. For years, Clark has been on a bizarre political odyssey, much of the time in sync with the Workers World Party. As an attorney, he has represented Lyndon LaRouche, the leader of a political cult. He has defended Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic and Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, who was accused of participating in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Clark is also a member of the International Committee To Defend Slobodan Milosevic. The international war-crimes tribunal, he explains, “is war by other means” — that is, a tool of the West to crush those who stand in the way of U.S. imperialism, like Milosevic. A critic of the ongoing sanctions against Iraq, Clark has appeared on talking-head shows and refused to concede any wrongdoing on Saddam’s part. "