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Ramsey Clark says hanging Saddam would lead to "the end of Civilization"

Terry Trippany on Oct 05 2006 at 10:43 pm | Filed under: Feature Article

This isn’t a very good sign for Saddam Hussein. I would start to sweat a little if my lawyer made the following statements is a press conference. It sounds like he is expecting the worst.

WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a member of Saddam Hussein’s defense team, predicted on Thursday that a bloodbath would follow should an Iraqi court trying the former president have him executed.

At a news conference, Clark said he feared that should Saddam and the others be hanged, “catastrophic violence” would follow that would lead to “the end of civilization as we know it in the birthplace of civilization, Mesopotamia. Total, unmitigated chaos.”

Saddam’s Sunni Muslim tribe of 1.5 million would be enraged over what they would consider the revenge killing of the former president by the Shiite-controlled and U.S.-sponsored government, Clark said. - Yahoo (AP)

I’ve heard of ridiculous liberal fear mongering before but this takes the cake. Perhaps it would lead to the end of Clark’s civilization. It’s amazing the lengths that some people will go to protect the life of a murdering tyrant.