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Liberal Hall of Shame
Our impeachment ads in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Boston Globe show that we can make a difference. They broke the media silence on the call for Impeachment and have helped spark widespread discussion of the grounds and basis for taking this necessary constitutional step. The ads have reached millions of people and generated tens of thousands of new votes for impeachment. George W. Bush and his principal officials are the greatest threat to world peace, to human rights, to economic justice, to the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law that the American people and the world at large face today. His personal, unilateral war of aggression has wrecked Iraq, taken 250,000 lives or more, created tensions worldwide and significantly isolated the United States, costing us international friendships, trust, respect and alliances. War of aggression was judged to be “the Supreme International Crime” by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Proclaiming himself the “Decider,” President Bush insists he decides what is right. He threatens North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, and most critically at the moment, Iran. The threats themselves violate international law and the U.N. Charter. His threats are made real by his personal record of false claims followed by arbitrary acts including the criminal aggression against and occupation of Iraq with its painful consequences just beginning for Iraq and the world. The additional U.S. military costs approach a trillion dollars and the occupation stretches the limits of U.S. military capacity. Yet he has ordered detailed plans for attacks on Iran that he could order to be executed as early as this summer. He may believe some radical action can save his presidency. Iran has more than three times the population of Iraq. It was not debilitated by the Gulf War which cost Iraq more than 150,000 lives and destroyed its basic infrastructure. Thirteen years of sanctions, from Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1990 to “Mission Accomplished” Day “ending” the war of aggression against Iraq announced from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln by President Bush on May 1, 2003, cost Iraq 1 million lives, half children under the age of five. Iraq suffered near total isolation. Without international commerce, or the ability to rebuild, Iraq’s economy was devastated. It suffered physically and psychologically from frequent punitive bombings by U.S. aircraft throughout the sanctions period. Iran’s economy and power fueled by its oil, grew steadily through all these years. Nothing could unify Iran like a military strike against it by the U.S. Few acts could better convince Muslims worldwide that George Bush is on a crusade against them. Iran with its long border with Iraq could radically alter political alignments and the level of conflict in Iraq and serve as an open conduit for fighters from many nations. Violence could spread from Egypt to neighboring Pakistan and beyond. The Geneva Conventions prohibit assaults on “inherently dangerous” facilities, which would threaten civilian populations. Nuclear power plants are the prime example. Iran has a right to develop such plants. The Shah had ambitious plans 30 years ago, well financed and advanced, to construct nuclear plants across Iran to replace depleting oil reserves. Iran is six years or more away from the ability to build nuclear warheads if that is its purpose. The U.S. could incinerate Iran with a single launch from its worldwide land, sea and air nuclear missile capacity in place and alert today. Iran knows this. Surely it is better to seek to stop threatening and start seeking better relations and understanding with Iran and other nations that may be hostile. Aside from the criminal nature of an attack on Iran, further aggressions by George Bush could put the United States in a rapid decline in international standing, economically and military on the defense, globally and at home. With thirty-two months remaining in his Presidency, George Bush can inflict greater, even devastating injury on our people and the poor of the rest of the planet. He has squandered the largest federal surplus in history and created the largest national debt with his determination to be a War President and his ambition to enrich the rich. He continues increasing military expenditures including the unlawful development of a new generation of nuclear weapons and a “Star Wars” shield for the U.S., insuring an arms race and increasing the probability of war. President Bush’s tax cuts and “Free Trade” pressures have accelerated the concentration of wealth in oligarchies at home and abroad and further impoverished the poor. Nearly 1/3 of his tax cuts have gone to the top one percent of the population. When his estate tax cuts take hold the top one percent of the population will receive 40% of his tax cuts. The number of billionaires is increasing rapidly while incomes of workers and the poor decline and organized labor continue to decline. And tax cuts combined with increased military expenditures and increasing deficits in balance of payments which make the U.S. the largest debtor nation are compelling cuts in federal expenditures for health care, education, social security, Medicare, humanitarian foreign aid and other needed programs for the poor. The real income of college graduates fell more than 5% from 2000 to 2004 under President Bush, eroding the middle class while concentrating wealth in the few. The richest ten percent of the population received more than half of all his tax cuts benefits. President Bush’s contempt for human rights and civil liberties is unprecedented in the American Presidency. He is not only above international law, he is above the Bill of Rights. He can arrest and detain people worldwide, including U.S. citizens, as enemy combatants. He condones torture. He wiretaps U.S. citizens and foreigners alike without court approval. Proclamations concerning his Presidential powers by his Attorneys General, Ashcroft and Gonzales, have stunned the international community. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo now symbolize U.S. regard for human dignity. Yet George Bush proclaims himself the champion of freedom and democracy! If the American people fail to impeach George Bush and his principal officials for his war of aggression, the world can only see the American people as either powerless, or supportive of it. If he is charged only, or primarily, with misleading, or lying to the American people, the world can only believe the American people will accept mass murder if it is not lied about. Impeachment is essential to the integrity of constitutional government. It is the most urgent duty of the American people. We have the power to cause impeachment, if we have the will. Do your part now! Participate and contribute to the Constitutional Crusade to Impeach George Bush. Click here to make a donation. Ramsey Clark May 3, 2006 A Special Message from Ramsey Clark: What's At Stake
As of Feb. 19, 2002 – a week after the beginning of the trial – the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic consisted of representatives of 20 countries. The United States was represented by 11 members of the committee, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, its co-chairman. Milosevic and the Impeachment of President Clinton
The brutal, murderous ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is on trial for his life in Baghdad. Fighting on his side is former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, an anti-war activist who has agreed to help defend Hussein – not so much to protect Hussein's rights, but to take a position contrary to the American government and to embarrass the Bush administration and all Americans in the process. Over time, Ramsey has helped so many terrorists, it's hard to keep track of them all. For example, the Black Panthers, Germany's Baader Meinhof gang, al-Qaida, Nicaragua's Sandinistas, the Attica prison rioters, Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic, the Berrigan brothers, Lyndon LaRouche, Nazi war criminals, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers – all have been the recipients of Clark's defense. And all have lost their causes. In a recent interview of Saddam Hussein by CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Clark said that the Hussein trial is being "illegally conducted." Clark further said that the war was and is "unjust," a phrase now being used by his client, and that the United States had "no right to invade Iraq." When Blitzer asked him "Should Bush be placed on trial?" Clark responded that the Iraq "invasion" was an "illegal war" and that there is "no doubt" that it reaches the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors." It's time to deport traitors like Ramsey Clark
Workers World Party (WWP), which organized the demonstrations, is ideologically aligned with the Stalinist nation of North Korea. This tiny Marxist-Leninist group is behind A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), with which former LBJ Attorney General Ramsey Clark is involved. Ramsey Clark is a perennial in this role. (It was learned Tuesday that CBS was granted its Dan Rather interview with Saddam Hussein after Rather’s good friend Clark “put in a good word” for him with the Iraqi dictator.) Romerstein says Clark has collaborated with WWP activists John Catalinotto and Sarah Flounders in their apologia for Slobadon Milosevic. 'Hate-America Leftists' Lead the Appeasement Movement Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Feb. 27, 2003 A former U.S. attorney general who worked on anti-Vietnam war protests with failed presidential candidate John Kerry has joined Saddam Hussein's legal defense team. Ramsey Clark told the BBC that he was teaming up with Saddam's Jordanian based lawyers in order to protect the accused war criminal's legal rights; complaining that the special tribunal established by the U.S.-led coalition to try the Iraqi dictator had no authority in law as a criminal court. The former attorney general has long maintained that Saddam was never as brutal as the Western media claimed, calling eyewitness accounts of Iraqi torture sessions "absurd." "Propaganda can be pretty vicious," he told radio host Mike Siegel in 2003. "I've worked with problems of defection and informers for years and years and they're not generally reliable." In March 2004, Clark endorsed John Kerry's presidential candidacy. "I think John Kerry is a great human being," Saddam's new lawyer told an Accuracy in Media press conference, adding, "I knew [Kerry] when he was - I call a youngster - in his 20s." Clark's relationship with the top Democrat goes back to April 1971, when he came to the rescue of Kerry's group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War after the Nixon administration threatened to have them arrested for protesting on the Capitol Mall. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005 11:33 p.m. EST
The announcement came as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived in Baghdad, airport officials said, apparently to aid in Saddam's defense. Clark has been advising nearly a dozen international lawyers on Saddam's defense team. He has contended that Saddam's rights have been violated in the legal process following his capture. Ramsey Clark Arrives to Assist Saddam Defense
Partial transcript of arguments in Saddam Hussein's trial over request by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to address the court over the issue of its legitimacy. Excerpts From Arguments in Saddam Trial
Palestine Liberation Organization and its governmental entity must each pay more than $116 million to the estate of a Jewish couple slain near the West Bank eight years ago, a federal judge ruled. The ruling follows a four-year battle to link the organizations to the crime. Ramsey Clark Loses Another One The defendants may appeal the ruling to the 1st U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. Their attorneys, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Lawrence Schilling, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. U.S. Judge: PLO Must Pay $116 Million to Estate of
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