29-12-2016, 06:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 29-12-2016, 07:17 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:I haven't checked Ramsey Clarke's website for ages but it is interesting that Saddam wrote to him thinking it would get to the President. I wonder if it ever did?
I believe it did not. Clark was once a high 'insider' figure in an earlier Administration, but by the time Saddam had written to Clark, he was considered an beyond-the-pale outsider for his anti-war stances, etc.
Part II of this is not transcribed, but can be viewed here [and I think it is good - better than the part above!]: https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/28/...als_saddam
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass