Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clarkis an American lawyer, activist and former federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth18 December 1927
CountryUnited States of America
What was the government doing? ... (FBI agents) had absolutely no regard of the lives of any of the people in there. All they had to do was wait them out.
It's a creature of the U.S. military occupation, its statute was drafted by the U.S. and rubber-stamped later by people in the U.S. and supported all the time.
A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
Today we had further evidence. The court was chaotic about the half the time (with) two people, three people speaking at the same time.
Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal. And unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and as absolutely fair in fact, it will irreconcilably divide the people of Iraq.
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.
The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
The statutes of the high court in Iraq requires a public hearing but he (the presiding judge) arbitrarily cut it off so that you the press and the rest of the world could not see what he said.
I've been in many unpopular cases where there's been high community prejudice against the defendants, but here everybody has been hurt, and everybody is angry,
President Saddam Hussein was in very good spirits, very clear minded. We had a good discussion after the court.
Both commanders were courageous enough to fight more powerful countries.
Cutting off the president (Saddam) was absolutely unwarranted. He has international rights to a public trial.
It creates sectarian passions that destroy rationality and reason and the search for truth.