[lbo-talk] The Pitfalls of Trying Hussein Re: IAC/ANSWER hack to defend saddam?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Jan 5 03:51:46 PST 2004


marc rodrigues lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:46:19 -0500:


>"Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark said last week that he
>would be willing to provide legal counsel to the ousted Iraqi leader
>if he requested assistance. Mr. Clark was attorney general under
>President Johnson and is a staunch anti-war advocate who has met
>with Saddam on several occasions in the past decade."
>
>http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1231/dailyUpdate.html?s=entt
>
>in the middle of trying to co-opt and take over both March 20th and
>the anti-RNC organizing that's been going on, they have time for
>this too. another reason for anti-war people to distance themselves
>from the WWP/IAC/ANSWER borg. once the right gets a hold of this,
>it will be a field day (and for good reason (?)).

I finally got around to taking a look at the Christian Science Monitor article that Marc posted. Though Marc chose to worry about the penultimate paragraph that mentions Ramsey Clark, the whole article is actually about "the pitfalls of trying Hussein" (which is the title of the article, and its headline is a warning that "Hussein on trial could make the US, Britain, France, Germany and Russia regret their past associations with his regime") -- the pitfalls for not the anti-war movement but the US and other governments that once provided material support for Saddam Hussein and his party and regime. Among other thing, the CS Monitor website at <http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1231/dailyUpdate.html> provides a link to "The Saddam Hussein Sourcebook: Declassified Secrets from the U.S.-Iraq Relationship" by the National Security Archive at <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm>. By the standards of the mainstream media, a remarkably useful service to the anti-war movement. . . . -- Yoshie

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