The real crusader

Islamists call Americans fighting the Iraq war "crusaders", but the term more aptly fits one American--Ramsey Clark--who is a crusader for the rights of dictators the world over.

He's back in the news with the Saddam trial, saying it's not fair and such, but one specific quote he made in reference to the soon-to-begin Halabja chemical gassing trial telegraphs his future discovery intentions:

The defense is considered likely to highlight how Kurdish guerrillas attacked Iraqi forces during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war. Clark also said defense lawyers would examine extensive U.S. intelligence on the 1988 campaign.

So it appears the defense argument will be the Kurds "deserved it" by having the temerity to attack the brutal dictator. Sounds like a real winner.

But let's cut to the chase--Clark wants to call Cheney and Rumsfeld as witnesses to prove they were the ones who gave Saddam the gas. In the weird mind of the radical left, Saddam was simply a helpless sock puppet contolled by evil oil-hungry Americans.

It could be entertaining, but if Clark fails to also subpeona some French and Russian intelligence files we'll need to send in another international fair trial advocate to investigate him. And while they're at it perhaps they could also investigate whether anyone involved with this mess is also involved with paying the representatives defending the Butcher.

GOLDEN 6/28/06

Iraq today made public the perpetrators of February's Golden Dome attack in Samarra:

Badri, an Iraqi who was linked to the previous regime before joining Ansar al-Sunna and ultimately the Al-Qaeda network, led the cell which included Abu Qudama plus four Saudi nationals and another Iraqi.

Linked? How? We've been told those secular fellas didn't care too much for all that fundamentalist stuff.