>Stephen Philion wrote:
>
>>Saddam's right to council should be a given, but who should provide
>>it is a legit subject of debate.
>>
>>--utter nonsense, i'm sorry. due process is about lawyers not
>>having to fret over whether or not their counselling 'good guys'.
>>either ya stand by it or ya don't. poo pooing someone for
>>representing x or y because it's patriotically incorrect by
>>definition annuls any commitment to due processs.
>
>Steve, no one's disputing SH's right to a lawyer. The problem is the
>political ramifications of someone so identified with the antiwar
>movement taking the job. Remember the Nation's David Corn going on
>O'Reilly saying that the movement was run by Saddam-sympathizing
>Communists? That was a slur, but this would make it ten times worse.
>
>Doug
It's also noteworthy, however, that Commie-bating and Saddam-baiting remained on the hard right and the tiny margins of anarchism and liberalism. By and large, the rest of the ideological spectrum -- including the big media like CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. -- eschewed the sort of rhetoric that you fear.
After all, it's a few LBO-talkers, _not_ the Christian Science Monitor itself, that made much of Ramsey Clerk's willingness to offer his legal expertise. -- Yoshie
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