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2003-12-16 Fifth Column

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So.. since the GC cannot judge him, and the International Court cannot.... I guess we will just have to let him go. Sorry about the shave.

I know. Lets have the Iranians do it! We know that they LOVE SADDAM TO DEATH...

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-12-16 12:12:53 AM|| 2003-12-16 12:12:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, Ramsey's here! Let the freak show begin!

Posted by tu3031 2003-12-16 12:53:24 AM|| 2003-12-16 12:53:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Let Ramsey defend Sammy. The Iraqis will just have to bring the heavy judge:

Judge Roy Bean

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-16 12:58:56 AM|| 2003-12-16 12:58:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, we can invite Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley, too! That would complete the freak show!!

Posted by alaskasoldier 2003-12-16 1:00:17 AM|| 2003-12-16 1:00:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Saw a snippet on world link TV's ME roundup, "Rammy" Clark and some "international activist" who said, "We're the superpower now." Or something close to that.

For those of you who have DISH, check out WL TV and the newscast by Die Welt(?) in English. Very interesting. Actually, I was surprised. Slightly less anti-US than normal.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2003-12-16 1:48:15 AM|| 2003-12-16 1:48:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Let me guess! RC was Jimmy Carters's AG.

Am I right?

Posted by phil_b 2003-12-16 2:06:42 AM|| 2003-12-16 2:06:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 phil_b, you're close--try LBJ's.
Lyndon was a warmongering Dimocrat; you know, the way they used to be!

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-16 4:21:18 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-16 4:21:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Clark's just trying to establish attorney-client priviledge so interrogators don't start asking Saddam about ANSWER's funding.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-16 7:43:26 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-12-16 7:43:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Do you suppose that this latest spasm of vitriol and treason spilled out by the left (Michael Moore, et al) will finally hit the moderate American middle and they will say "Man, Howard Dean is these guy's candidate"?

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-12-16 8:28:23 AM|| 2003-12-16 8:28:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Ol' Ramsey should remember that justice is getting what you deserve (in this case permanent room in the Sod & Daisies Hotel for Sammy), but that just begs the question of why Ramsey is involved at all. What is it about the prospect of real justice that draws the loons out of the weeds? Don't go away mad, just GO AWAY!

Posted by Spot 2003-12-16 8:33:17 AM|| 2003-12-16 8:33:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 This guy needs to get a life.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-12-16 9:03:58 AM|| 2003-12-16 9:03:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Clark's just trying to establish attorney-client priviledge so interrogators don't start asking Saddam about ANSWER's funding...

ohhhh...I can HARDLY WAIT!!! Someone should tell him that you can't stop a tidal wave - nor is there any way to surf or duck under it. Best to just get the heck out of it's way. Here it comes...babee! Let the show begin!

Posted by B 2003-12-16 9:54:51 AM|| 2003-12-16 9:54:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 that just begs the question of why Ramsey is involved at all

Well, excepting my joke about funding for ANSWER, the fact is that Ramsey has never met a blood-stained tyrant he didn't love.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-16 10:18:22 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-12-16 10:18:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 "Clarke averred that neither the U.S.-installed Interim Governing Council (IGC) nor the occupation forces is eligible to try the overthrown president."
To summarize: Our (U.S.) legal legal system isn't up to Comrade Clarke's standards? Well Boo Friggin HOO! We should have a swift, fair trial and then PUBLICLY execute this monster.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-16 10:43:19 AM|| 2003-12-16 10:43:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Tarek Aziz has already asked to be defended by the infamous french lawyer Jacques Verges (of Klaus Barbie, Carlos the jacqual, and Milosevic fame); wouldn't surprize me the least if Jacques instead opted of defending Tarek's boss, good old Saddam himself.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-12-16 11:24:54 AM|| 2003-12-16 11:24:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Giving saddam to the Iranians might be a stroke of genius. OK we kill him - but what to we tell the loyalists we are supporting? Oh well, we still have the separatists...

It might give them fits... ah maybe we just keep him...

Posted by flash91 2003-12-16 11:44:22 AM|| 2003-12-16 11:44:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 This guy needs to get a life.
There are persistent rumors that several life sentences would be more appropriate. Not everything the OTHER Weasel Clark has done have been completely legitimate. If this bag of sh$$ goes to Iraq, he should be jugged and turned over to the Kurds - I'm sure they will know exactly what to do with him, and why.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-12-16 2:58:15 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-12-16 2:58:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 CyberSarge - Which monster, Saddam or Clarke?

Posted by .com 2003-12-16 5:24:23 PM|| 2003-12-16 5:24:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Lyndon was a warmongering Dimocrat;

I don't know about that. If he really was one, the Vietnam War probably would not have turned out as it did.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-16 6:16:16 PM|| 2003-12-16 6:16:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 You got it BAR...

LBJ was a running scared New Deal Demo with a shit load of money ghosts in his closet.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-16 6:41:39 PM|| 2003-12-16 6:41:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Those would be Texas money ghosts, more than quite a few of which were defense industry biggies as they still are today and then there's NASA in Houston, which is defense-related.
Don't forget LBJ's "Great Society," largely fueled by the war economy.
His apparent failing with the Vietnam War inter alia was micro-managing it, letting McNamara and Westmoreland have their heads while at the same time being constrained by Cold War "conflict" protocols (no all-out victories or pushes allowed, maintaining the pretense that the Soviet Union and PRC weren't in the background, etc.)
One of the weirder phenomenon in the very strange war now is that our role and goal in the Vietnam "conflict" is being rehabilitated.
Johnson was right--Vietnam went Communist and Ho Chi Mihn's men almost destroyed both North and South Vietnam to the point that they're still picking up the pieces in 2003.

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-16 8:32:48 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-16 8:32:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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