January 07, 2005
Ramsey for the defence
Ramsey Clark has decided to maintain his perfect track record of defending genocidal tyrants, and has joined Saddam's defence team. A genuinely honest and thoughtful antiwar leftist, Marc Cooper, is pissed:
I wrote two years ago —as an opponent of the war in Iraq -- that the liberal and democratic left was making a monstrous mistake in ceding the leadership of the anti-war movement to this wacky fringe who, indeed, supported not only Saddam but also Slobodan Milosevic as well as that nice family that runs North Korea. I predicted, as if it was any effort to do so, that a movement with these dimwits anywhere near its leadership was doomed.
Let me tell you, I was called every name under the sun for having criticized ANSWER and, worse, for having noted its barely disguised link to the WWP. I was a red-baiter, an opportunist, a CIA agent, a splitter, and that dottering intellectual cadaver, Ed Herman, branded me a “cruise-missile leftist.” Yada yada yada.
But, here we are two years later, with 56% of the American population opposing the war, and just where is that peace movement? In a word: invisible. Does that make me a genius? Hardly. It does confirm, however, that those muddle-heads who said it made no difference who actually organized the rallies were dead wrong.
In fairness, “the movement” will re-emerge a few weeks from now in some planned mass demonstrations and the robotoides from Ramsey Clarke’s ANSWER will be right in the front lines of them. How long do you think it will take supporters of the war – outside and inside the media-- to notice that the founder of one of the organizing groups of these demos is now not only a legal, but also a political defender of Saddam?
Keep telling yourself, it doesn’t matter.
Posted by damian at January 7, 2005 07:42 AM