Unbelievable Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark, former United States Attorney General and left-wing crackpot, has joined Saddam Hussein's legal defense team. As an individual, Clark has little credibility remaining as an impartial legal practitioner. His only value -- and a significant one, at that -- to Saddam is the fact that under Lyndon Johnson he was the top law enforcement official in the United States.

It's not just conservatives who believe Clark is a little left of loopy. This article in Salon -- no stranger to American liberalism -- details Clark's reputation as a defender of all things anti-American. He defended Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serbian war criminal Clark defended in a New York civil suit brought against him by Bosnian rape victims. The article also notes that in crafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Clark accuses the United States, Britain, and France of being the primary drafters, and states that they showed:

"'little concern for economic, social and cultural rights.' The social and cultural rights claimed by his Iraqi hosts include the right to hang opponents in public at the airport, or poison thousands of Kurds and torture and execute any opponent of the regime. And on the legality of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the silence is deafening."

Maybe Saddam is already planning to appeal his ultimate conviction by claiming he had ineffective assistance of counsel. In that case, he couldn't have picked a better lawyer.