Ramsey Clark, Saddam Hussein's chief apologist

Christopher Hitchen's latest op-ed is in Thursday's LA Times. Free registration required. However, I found the same write-up in Saturday's Arab News, where no registration is needed.

Hitchen's on fire. An excerpt:

In an interview with the BBC last week and another in the New York Times on Tuesday, Mr. Clark addressed the charge that in 1982, after an apparent attempt on his life in the Iraqi town of Dujail, Hussein had ordered the torture and murder of about 150 men and boys from the area.

Far from denying that any such horror had occurred--and it is one of the smaller elements in the bill of indictment--Clark asserted that it was justifiable. He has now twice said in public that, given the war with the Shiite republic of Iran, Hussein was entitled to take stern measures. "He had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt," he told the BBC.

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