I am sure that some of you reading this page, support President Bush.  If all I had to go on was the news on American TV stations, I might think that Mr. Clark was out of line.
 I've researched the Bush family history through several  non-profit and world news sources.  Most people who have spent 100's if not 1,000's of hours doing this, find Ramsey Clark's actions to be most honorable and patriotic.

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Why I'm Willing to Defend Hussein
by Ramsey Clark - 1/24/2005
...Both international law and the Constitution of the United States guarantee the right to effective legal representation to any person accused of a crime. This is especially important in a highly politicized situation, where truth and justice can become even harder to achieve. That's certainly the situation today in Iraq. The war has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis and the widespread destruction of civilian properties essential to life. President Bush, who initiated and oversees the war, has manifested his hatred for Hussein, publicly proclaiming that the death penalty would be appropriate.

The United States, and the Bush administration in particular, engineered the demonization of Hussein, and it has a clear political interest in his conviction. Obviously, a fair trial of Hussein will be difficult to ensure — and critically important to the future of democracy in Iraq. This trial will write history, affect the course of violence around the world and have an impact on hopes for reconciliation within Iraq.

Hussein has been held illegally for more than a year without once meeting a family member, friend or lawyer of his choice. Though the world has seen him time and again on television — disheveled, apparently disoriented with someone prying deep into his mouth and later alone before some unseen judge — he has been cut off from all communications with the outside world and surrounded by the same U.S. military that mistreated prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo...
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A Message from Ramsey Clark
July 19, 2004
Join us in Boston to say NO to the Police State
The People will not be silenced!

The Police State has come to Boston.

In an attempt to intimidate protest and silence dissent,
the Boston Police, in cooperation with the Department of
Homeland Security, is imposing unprecedented police state measures:

**City Bus Drivers were given mandatory "anti-terror"
training.  They were shown films to help them identify
"terrorists."  The people shown in the film were not
terrorists--they were ANSWER activists.  Bus Drivers have
been ordered not to allow anyone on the bus carrying
political signs.  Peaceful protest has now been officially
designated as "terrorism" by the government.

**More than 75 high tech cameras hav been placed
throughout the city, with instant links to "monitoring
stations."  >From these stations, Federal Agents can zoom
in on facial characteristics and license plates.  The
surveillance of political activity without probable cause,
which has been determined to be illegal and
unconstitutional, is designed to intimidate and harass
protestors.

**The Boston Police has announced pland for the round-up,
mass arrest, and detention of political dissenters during
the DNC.

We must take a stand against the Police State in Boston.

How You Can Help:

*Call, write, and fax the following.  Tell them we will
not tolerate their war on civil liberties:

Thomas Menino-- Mayor of Boston-- mayor@ci.boston.ma.us
fax:  617-635-3416    phone:  617-635-4500

Department of Homeland Security-- phone:  202-282-8600

John Kerry Campaign-- info@johnkerry.com
fax:  202-712-3001    phone:  202-712-3000

Boston Police Boston Police Superintendent Robert
     Dunford--  Fax: 617 343 4481       Phone:  617 343 4200
     

*The best way to defeat the Department of Homeland
Security/Boston Police attempt to silence dissent is to
show up in massive numbers on the streets of Boston.  Let
them know that we will NOT be intimidated.

Join us on the streets on Sunday, July 25 to Rally and
March on the Democratic National Convention to kick off a
week of protest and resistance against the warmakers.  We
will rally on Boston Common and march to the Fleet Center,
site of the DNC.  

For more information, call ANSWER  Boston at 617-522-6626
www.ANSWERBoston.org
info@answerboston.org

March on the DNC!
Sunday, July 25
call the 617-522-66226
www.iacboston for more information


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A Message from Ramsey Clark
June 13, 2004

A Message from Ramsey Clark
March 1, 2004

The Bush administration has worked towards the removal of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office for three
years. It has enforced a unilateral embargo and cut off
humanitarian aid to the poorest country in the hemisphere.
It has sought to undermine support for President Aristide
while supporting his opposition. It has waged a relentless
propaganda campaign to force him out of office. It has
supported calls for elections in violation of the
constitution and laws of Haiti.

Most recently the U.S. has forced regime change by armed
aggression supporting former Haitian military officers,
FRAPH leaders and criminal elements who entered Haiti with
heavy firepower. Though only hundreds in number they
easily captured Cap Haitien, Gonaives, Hinche and Les
Cayes, killing the police who were untrained in warfare,
or in defending against commando units, armed only with
pistols.

This small force could never have entered Haiti if
President Aristide, a man of peace, had not abolished the
Haitian army, a praiseworthy act. Unfortunately, this left
the country defenseless against armed aggression.

The international organizations, CARICOM, OAS and the UN
should have acted to protect the democratically elected
government of Haiti. After Costa Rica abolished its army,
President Somoza (who U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt
called "our SOB") of Nicaragua, twice threatened invasions
of Costa Rica, only to be stopped, once by the OAS and
once by Venezuela.

The U.S. consistently acted to force President Aristide to
leave Haiti, abandon his constitutional duties, repudiate
democratic processes and desert his people to the tender
mercies of the Old Regime. The army, the paramilitary
FRAPH, criminal gangs and the old oligarchy that supported
Duvalier terrorism against the Haitian people with U.S.
support for 30 years. When in 1986 Baby Doc Duvalier was
forced to leave, his repressive forces no longer able to
contain the anger of the people, it was in a U.S. Air
Force plane to the French Riviera with millions of dollars
wrung from the sweat of the poor people of Haiti.

President Aristide consistently refused to leave his
people, to resign, to subvert Haitian democracy and
constitutional government under enormous pressure from the
Bush Administration. He was under that enormous pressure
for months as violence was again threatening his
presidency as it did in 1991, nine months into his first
term as the first democratically elected president of
Haiti, the first and only country in which a successful
slave rebellion took place. That revolution was begun by
Toussaint Louverteur in 1791 and ended under Jean-Jacques
Dessalines and others who defeated Napoleon's legions,
20,000 strong, and win independence for Haiti in 1804.

In his autobiography published in exile in 1992 first in
France, Aristide wrote, "In Haiti, we are watching the
ascent of a rebellious people who are revolting against
slavery. I am only the reflection, an echo of that
movement?they are the principal actors. I simply try to
exist in their dimension, to show love and non-violence,
through and beyond all the difficulties of life, as the
only thing that will enable us to go forward."

President Aristide listed in the final chapter of his
autobiography, "The Ten Commandments of Democracy in
Haiti," first spoken by him before the General Assembly of
the United Nations in September 1991. The commandments of
President Aristide, the political faith of a priest,
scholar and person of, by and for the poor, included:
liberty; democracy; fidelity to human rights; the right to
eat and to work; defense of the Haitian diaspora; no to
violence; fidelity to the human being ― and the
highest form of wealth ― fidelity to Haitian
culture; everyone around the same table.

This is the man President Bush has deposed.

If the Bush administration policy of unilateral wars of
aggression, violations of international law and the U.S.
Constitution and regime change is to be stopped before the
U.S. loses its last friend and creates a wave of terrorism
that will engulf the planet for years, the U.S. Congress
must investigate:
1. The role of the U.S. in forcing President Aristide from
Haiti
2. The support the Bush administration gave in training,
financing and arming the aggression against Haiti
3. The acts the Bush administration took to destabilize
social order in Haiti, to support the old army, the FRAPH
and the wealthy oligarchies
4. The role the U.S. played in President Aristide's sudden
departure from Haiti, contrary to all his public
statements, and his transport to a distant country
5. Any explanation the Bush administration has for its
failure to demand the former military, FRAPH and other
violent groups lay down their arms, arms the U.S.
provided, until the eve of the president's coerced
departure
6. Why Washington placed every pressure at its disposal to
force the democratically elected President of Haiti to
surrender his constitutional powers 
7. Why President Aristide was kidnapped in fact, even as
Toussaint Louverture was kidnapped to imprisonment in
France in 1803 and Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo
was kidnapped by U.S. soldiers to end the
Philippine-American War in 1901?

The Western Hemisphere cannot be a safe or happy place
until U.S. military and economic intervention and regime
change end, justice for all is assured, reparations for
past offenses to Haiti are paid and until President
Aristide returns for Haiti to serve his people.

Ramsey Clark
March 1, 2004

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OPEN LETTER FROM RAMSEY CLARK
to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, members of the UN
Security Council and President George W. Bush

Please post this open letter from Ramsey Clark widely. On
March 20, join Ramsey Clark and thousands of others in the
mass protest in New York City to demand "Bring the troops
home now," "End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine
and everywhere," and more. See below for more information
about March 20.

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January, 29, 2004

Dear Secretary General Annan,

U.S. President George W. Bush again confirmed his
intention to continue waging wars of aggression in his
State of the Union message on January 20, 2004.

He began his address:

"As we gather tonight, hundreds of thousands of American
service men and women are deployed across the world in the
war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and
delivering justice to the violent, they are making America
more secure."

He proclaimed:

"Our greatest responsibility is the active defense of the
American people... America is on the offensive against the
terrorists..."

Continuing, he said:

"...our coalition is leading aggressive raids against the
surviving members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.... Men who
ran away from our troops in battle are now dispersed and
attack from the shadows."

In Iraq, he reported:

"Of the top 55 officials of the former regime, we have
captured or killed 45. Our forces are on the offensive,
leading over 1,600 patrols a day, and conducting an
average of 180 raids a week...."

Explaining his aggression, President Bush stated:

"...After the chaos and carnage of September the 11th, it
is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. The
terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United
States and war is what they got."

Forget law. No more legal papers, or rights. Forget truth.
The claim that either Afghanistan, or Iraq declared war on
the U.S. is absurd. The U.S. chose to attack both nations,
from one end to the other, violating their sovereignty and
changing their "regimes", summarily executing thousands of
men, women and children in the process. At least 40,000
defenseless people in Iraq have been killed by U.S.
violence since the latest aggression began in earnest in
March 2003 starting with its celebrated, high tech,
terrorist "Shock and Awe" and continuing until now with
25, or more, U.S. raids daily causing mounting deaths and
injuries.

All this death-dealing aggression has occurred during a
period, Mr. Bush boasts, of "over two years without an
attack on American soil". The U.S. is guilty of pure
aggression, arbitrary repression and false portrayal of
the nature and purpose of its violence.

President Bush's brutish mentality is revealed in his
condemnations of the "killers" and "thugs in Iraq" "who
ran away from our troops in battle". U.S. military
expenditures and technology threaten and impoverish life
on the planet. Any army that sought to stand up against
U.S. air power and weapons of mass destruction in open
battle would be annihilated. This is what President Bush
seeks when he says "Bring 'em on."

President Bush declared his intention to change the
"Middle East" by force.

"As long as the Middle East remains a place of tyranny and
despair and anger, it will continue to produce men and
movements that threaten the safety of America and our
friends. So America is pursuing a forward strategy of
freedom in the greater Middle East. We will challenge the
enemies of reform, confront the allies of terror, and
expect a higher standard from our friends."

"...America is a nation with a mission... we understand
our special calling: This great republic will lead the
cause of freedom."

He extended his threat to any nation he may choose:

"As part of the offensive against terror, we are also
confronting the regimes that harbor and support
terrorists, and could supply them with nuclear, chemical
or biological weapons. The United States and our allies
are determined: We refuse to live in the shadow of this
ultimate danger."

President Bush's utter contempt for the United Nations is
revealed in his assertion that the United States and other
countries "have enforced the demands of the United
Nations", ignoring the refusal of the U.N. to approve a
war of aggression against Iraq and implying the U.N. had
neither the courage nor the capacity to pursue its own
"demands".

His total commitment to unilateral U.S. action, was
asserted by President Bush when he sarcastically referred
to the "permission slip" a school child needs to leave a
classroom:

"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the
security of our people".

President Bush intends to go it alone, because his
interest is American power and wealth alone, though he
prefers to use the youth of NATO countries and others as
cannon folder in his wars.

President Bush believes might makes right and that the end
justifies the means. He declares:

"...the world without Saddam Husseins regime is a better
and safer place".

So U.S. military technology which is omnicidal- capable of
destroying all life on the planet-will be ordered by
President Bush to make the world "a better and safer
place" by destroying nations and individuals he
designates.

President Bush presided over 152 executions in Texas, far
more than any other U.S. governor since World War II.
Included were women, minors, retarded persons, aliens in
violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
and innocent persons. He never acted to prevent a single
execution.  He has publicly proclaimed the right to
assassinate foreign leaders and repeatedly boasted of
summary executions and indiscriminate killing in State of
the Union messages and elsewhere.

The danger of Bush unilateralism is further revealed when
he states:

"Colonel Qaddafi correctly judged that his country would
be better off, and far more secure without weapons of mass
murder. Nine months of intense negotiations involving the
United States and Great Britain succeeded with Libya,
while 12 years of diplomacy with Iraq did not."

Forget diplomacy, use "intense negotiations". If President
Bush believed it was "diplomacy", which maintained
genocidal sanctions against Iraq for twelve years that
failed, rather than an effort to crush Iraq to submission,
then why didn't he use "nine months of intense
negotiations" to avoid a war of aggression against Iraq?
He was President for nearly twenty seven months before the
criminal assault on Iraq, he apparently intended all
along. Iraq was no threat to anyone.

What President Bush means by "intense negotiations"
includes a threat of military aggression with the example
of Iraq to show this in no bluff. The Nuremberg Judgment
held Goerings threat to destroy Prague unless
Czechoslovakia surrendered Bohemia and Moravia to be an
act of aggression.

If Qaddafi "correctly judged his country would be better
off, and far more secure, without weapons of mass murder",
why would the United States not be better off, and far
more secure, if it eliminated all its vast stores of
nuclear weapons? Is not the greatest danger from nuclear
proliferation today without question President Bush's
violations of the Non Proliferation (NPT), ABM and Nuclear
Test Ban treaties by continuing programs for strategic
nuclear weapons, failing to negotiate in good faith to
achieve "nuclear disarmament" after more than thirty years
and development of a new generation of nuclear weapons,
small "tactical" weapons of mass murder, which he would
use in a minute? Has he not threatened to use existing
strategic nuclear weapons? The failure of the "nuclear
weapon State Party(s)" to the NPT to work in good faith to
achieve "nuclear disarmament these past 36 years is the
reason the world is still confronted with the threat of
nuclear war and proliferation.

None of the many and changing explanations, excuses, or
evasions offered by President Bush to justify his war of
aggression can erase the crimes he has committed. Among
the less invidious misleading statements, President Bush
made on January 20, 2004 was:

"Already the Kay Report identified dozens of weapons of
mass destruction-related program activities and
significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from
the United Nations."

Three days later, Dr. Kay told Reuters he thought Iraq had
illicit weapons at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War,
but that by a combination of U.N. inspections and Iraq's
own decisions, "it got rid of them". He further said it
"is correct" to say Iraq does not have any large
stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons in the
country. He has added that no evidence of any chemical or
biological weapons have been found in Iraq.

Iraq did not use illicit weapons in the 1991 Gulf war. The
U.S. did - 900 tons plus of depleted uranium, fuel air
explosives, super bombs, cluster bombs with civilians and
civilian facilities the "direct object of attack". The
U.S. claimed to destroy 80% of Iraq's military armor. It
dropped 88,500 tons of explosives, 7 1/2 Hiroshima's, on
the country in 42 days. Iraq was essentially defenseless.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians
perished. The U.S. reported 157 casualties, 1/3 from
friendly fire, the remainder non combat.

U.N. inspectors over more than 6 years of highly intrusive
physical inspections found and destroyed 90% of the
materials required to manufacture nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons. U.N. sanctions imposed August 6, 1990
had caused the deaths of 567,000 children under age five
by October 1996, the U.N. FAO reported. Twenty four
percent of the infants born live in Iraq in 2002 had a
dangerously low birth weight below 2 kilos, symbolizing
the condition of the whole population.

In March 2003 Iraq was incapable of carrying out a threat
against the U.S., or any other country, and would have
been pulverized by U.S. forces in place in the Gulf had it
tried.

More than thirty five nations admit the possession of
nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons. Are these
nations, caput lupinum, lawfully subject to destruction
because of their mere possession of WMDs? The U.S.
possesses more of each of these impermissible weapons than
all other nations combined, and infinitely greater
capacity for their delivery anywhere on earth within
hours. Meanwhile the U.S. increases its military
expenditures, which already exceed those of all other
nations on earth combined, and its technology which is
exponentially more dangerous.

The U.N. General Assembly Resolution on the Definition of
Aggression of December 14, 1974 provides in part:

Article 1: Aggression is the use of armed force by a State
against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or
political independence of another State;

Article 2: The first use of armed force by a State in
contravention of the Charter shall constitute prima facie
evidence of an act of aggression;

Article 3: Any of the following acts ... qualify as an act
of aggression:

(a) The invasion or attack by the armed forces of a State
of the territory of another State, or any military
occupation, however temporary, resulting from such
invasion or attack;

(b) Bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the
territory of another State or the use of any weapons by a
State against the territory of another State;

(c) The blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the
armed forces of another State;

(d) An attack by the armed forces of a State on the land,
sea or air forces, or marine and air fleets of another
State.

If the U.S. assault on Iraq is not a War of Aggression
under international law, then there is no longer such a
crime as War of Aggression. A huge, all powerful nation
has assaulted a small prostrate, defenseless people half
way around the world with "Shock and Awe" terror and
destruction, occupied it and continues daily assaults.
President Bush praises U.S. soldiers' "...skill and their
courage in armored charges, and midnight raids." which
terrorize and kill innocent Iraqis, women, children,
families, nearly every day and average 180 attacks each
week.

The first crime defined in the Constitution annexed to the
Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg)
under Crimes Against Peace is War of Aggression. II.6.a.
The Nuremberg Judgment proclaimed:

"The charges in the indictment that the defendants planned
and waged aggressive war are charges of the utmost
gravity. War is essentially an evil thing. Its
consequences are not confined to the belligerent states
alone, but affect the whole world."

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an
international crime, it is the supreme international
crime...

The "seizure" of Austria in March 1938 and of Bohemia and
Moravia from Czechoslovakia in March 1939 following the
threat to destroy Prague were judged to be acts of
aggression by the Tribunal even in the absence of actual
war and after Britain, France, Italy and Germany had
agreed at Munich to cede Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to
Germany.

The first conduct judged to be a war of aggression by Nazi
Germany was its invasion of Poland in September 1939.
There followed a long list, Britain, France, Denmark,
Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg, Yugoslavia, Greece.
The attack on the USSR, together with Finland, Romania and
Hungary, was adjudged as follows:

It was contended for the defendants that the attack upon
the U.S.S.R. was justified because the Soviet Union was
contemplating an attack upon Germany, and making
preparations to that end. It is impossible to believe that
this view was ever honestly entertained.

The plans for the economic exploitation of the U.S.S.R.,
for the removal of masses of the population, for the
murder of Commissars and political leaders, were all part
of the carefully prepared scheme launched on 22 June
without warning of any kind, and without the shadow of
legal excuses. It was plain aggression.

The United Nations cannot permit U.S. power to justify its
wars of aggression if it is to survive as a viable
institution for ending the scourges of war, exploitation,
hunger, sickness and poverty. Comparatively minor acts and
wars of aggression by the United States in the last 20
years, deadly enough for their victims, in Grenada, Libya,
Panama, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Sudan, Yugoslavia,
Cuba, Yemen with many other nations threatened,
sanctioned, or attacked, some with U.N. complicity and all
without effective United Nations resistance, made the
major deadly wars of aggression against Afghanistan and
Iraq possible.

Failure to condemn the massive U.S. war of aggression and
illegal occupation of Iraq and any U.N. act providing
colorable legitimacy to the U.S. occupation will open wide
the gate to further, greater aggression. The line must be
drawn now.

The United Nations must recognize and declare the U.S.
attack and occupation of Iraq to be the war of aggression
it is. It must refuse absolutely to justify, or condone
the aggression, the illegal occupation and the continuing
U.S. assaults in Iraq. The U.N. must insist that the U.S.
withdraw from Iraq as it insisted Iraq withdraw from
Kuwait in 1990.

There must be no impunity or profit for wars of
aggression.

The U.S. and U.S. companies must surrender all profits and
terminate all contracts involving Iraq.

There must be strict accountability by U.S. leaders and
others for crimes they have committed against Iraq and
compensation by the U.S. government for the damage its
aggression has inflicted on Afghanistan and Iraq, the
peoples injured there and stability and harm done to world
peace.

This must be done with care to prevent the eruption of
internal divisions, or violence and any foreign domination
or exploitation in Iraq. The governance of a united Iraq
must be returned to the diverse peoples who live there,
acting together consensually in peace for their common
good as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark

The identical letter has been sent to:
-Members of the UN Security Council
-The President of the UN General Assembly
-The Secretary General of the UN
-The President of the United States

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Bush and Cheney Keep Lying About
Ties between Saddam and al Qaeda
Added on 6/21/2004.
Dan Froomkin writes that Bush on Tuesday "pointed to Abu Musab Zarqawi as the 'best evidence' of a connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. In so doing, he came to the defense of Cheney, who on Monday asserted that Saddam Hussein had 'long-established ties' with al Qaeda. But he also risked putting himself at odds with the Sept. 11 commission and the intelligence community. Even though Zarqawi is actively terrorizing Iraq today, and does appear to have a relationship with al Qaeda, his association with Hussein has never been established. Communications between Zarqawi and al Qaeda that Bush alluded to yesterday took place several months after Hussein was removed from power. And a new report released this morning by the Sept. 11 commission declares that there is 'no credible evidence' that Hussein's government collaborated with the al Qaeda terrorist network on any attacks on the United States, including the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings." No more lies - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46132-2004Jun16.html
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