# Ramsey Clark's War Crimes Allegations and their veracity **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 1, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramsey-clarks-war-crimes-allegations-and-their-veracity/152085 "2003-02-01T12:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramsey-clarks-war-crimes-allegations-and-their-veracity/152085/1 "2003-02-01T12:49:52Z")
[http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-index.htm](http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-index.htm) In this document, Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, among others accuses the US of war crimes in Iraq. This document is fairly horrific. I find myself believing that arab terrorism is born of legitimate grievance more and more, and that Desert Storm was perhaps, not justified. This document is fairly horrific. Does anyone have any light they can shed upon this? (I know this is a GQ but I figured this would start a pretty vigorous debate so I put it here.) Erek ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramsey-clarks-war-crimes-allegations-and-their-veracity/152085/2 "2003-02-01T13:45:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mswas \* > [B Does anyone have any light they can shed upon this? \*\* Ramsey Clark is pretty well discredited. Here’s an [article](http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/06/21/clark/) from the left-leaning _[Salon.com](http://Salon.com)_ > [@](#): > > The former U.S. attorney general has become the tool of left-wing cultists who defend Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Rwandan torturers as anti-imperialist heroes… > > …seems entirely in the thrall of an obscure Trotskyist sect, the Workers World Party… > > At the end of 1998 Clark attended a human rights conference in Baghdad, Iraq… > > When he flew to Belgrade to support Slobodan Milosevic during NATO’s campaign, there was no word about the siege of Sarajevo, the massacre at Srebrenica or the million homeless refugees from Kosovo… > > In Grenada he went to advise Bernard Coard, the murderer of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Other clients include Radovan Karadzic, the indicted Bosnian Serbian war criminal whom he defended in a New York civil suit brought by Bosnian rape victims, and the Rwandan pastor who is accused of telling Tutsis to hide in his church and then summoning Hutus to massacre them, and then leading killing squads… > > Attention to detail is not a major feature of his work. While claiming an intimate knowledge of events in the Balkans, only this April he addressed a letter to Bill Richardson as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., telling him that “the U.S. assaults both Slavs and Muslims to stimulate them to attack each other and to control both.” Of course, if he had been reading newspapers other than Workers World, he would have noticed that Richardson has been energy secretary for over a year. Read the entire article. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramsey-clarks-war-crimes-allegations-and-their-veracity/152085/3 "2003-02-01T23:34:20Z")
**mswas,** you should do a search on “Ramsey Clark” on the SDMB if you’re around during off-peak hours. He’s been heavily discussed before. Suffice to say he’s a liar and kind of a nut, and he’s a favourite pet of dictators around the world. Extensive details can be found in other threads, but I wouldn’t trust Ramsey Clark to tell me the time of day. He’s one of the most dishonest people in the world. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramsey-clarks-war-crimes-allegations-and-their-veracity/152085/4 "2003-02-02T00:21:15Z")
Alright cool, thanks guys. I was curious about that. Erek ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramsey-clarks-war-crimes-allegations-and-their-veracity/152085/5 "2003-02-02T01:15:58Z")
—Suffice to say he’s a liar and kind of a nut, and he’s a favourite pet of dictators around the world.— Him and Mother Teresa, according to Christopher Hitchens. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramsey-clarks-war-crimes-allegations-and-their-veracity/152085/6 "2003-02-02T02:15:39Z")
lol Well, I read that website, and was wondering why this wasn’t big news, even if it wasn’t accepted. So I figured I’d ask, I guess it should have gone in GQ, as everyone who seems to know anything about the guy, agrees he’s a schmuck. ;p Erek