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But does that beautiful mustache have a name? and if it did, who would win in Battle Royale WWF style – Regis, Saddam’s ‘stache, or Geraldo’s?
None. Ditka’s ‘stache beats Saddam’s ‘stache in the following week’s cage match.
If only Johnny Cochran were still around, he could deploy the dreaded ”Chewbacca defense!”
Actually, reading the definition, that’s probably a pretty accurate description of what the defense will be.
I saw a brief story on Clark on the morning news, and it noted his fears that Saddam wouldn’t get “a fair trial.”
What does that phrase even mean in this context? I suppose Clark’s arugment is that is that no Iraqi juror will be able to bring a ‘presumption of innocence’ to the table. No shit, Sherlock. When a man’s been publicly murdering thousands of your fellow citizens for the last few decades, it might, admittedly, be difficult to marshal such a thing. If that’s the standard for a fair trail, however, then one could ensure freedom from prosecution simply by making sure to commit crimes of such magnitude that no one could be left unaware of them.
If, on the other hand, one considers a “fair trial” to be one in which a guilty man is found guilty and an innocent one is found innocent, then Clark’s concerns mark him to be a jackass of the very highest order.
If he can hold his breath for 20 minutes while hanging by the neck, he gets to walk. What’s not fair?
Kidding aside, I bet he is actually going to argue the second point.
Somewhere around January 1991 we should have passed that constitutional amendment that designated Mr. Clark as the official national cuckoo. Where is Marvin Kuntsler when we need him? Oh yeah…dead.
Jeff, I am still a licensed attorney. I will represent you at your theft trial. It is quite obvious that you stole the real thing…
BTW – the use of a “Jr. Legal Pad” was quite brilliant.
Wishbone,
Marvin Kuntsler? Do you mean William Kunstler?
Reminds me of a joke I heard during the 1970’s about a proposed pundit show modeled after “Meet The Press”.
Appearing today on “Meet the Cunts” our guests will be, William Kunstler, The Cunt of Monte Cristo and Jackie Onassis.
Yes, I’ve got tryptophan poisoning. William, not Marvin. You’d think with hair like that his name would be burned into my memory. Of course, my own ‘do in grad school was on the hippie side of life.
That Meet the Press bit was a “Letter to the Editor” in National Lampoon. God, I miss that mag.
One question:
Under what authority does Clark have to practice law in Iraq? And if he remembers, the laws of a foreign country aren’t the same in the US
Joebag–
Here in Chicago we have a quiz: Name the three streets rhyming with “vagina”?
Answer: Medinah, Paulina and Lunt.
Under Iraqi law, how many outbursts by the defendant are allowed before you can beat him into submission with the butt of an M-16?
And can it be televised?
I’m sorry, but the first thing I came up with was the one explained by Han Solo on the trip from Tatooine to Alderaan (just before they realize that Alderaan’s role as “a planet” had been rewritten as “a bunch of rocks floating in the general vicinity”).
Han Solo: “It’s not a good idea to anger a Wookiee.”
C3PO: “But, sir, no one ever worries about angering an android.”
HS: “That’s because an android doesn’t rip your arms off when it loses.”
(Chewbacca interlaces fingers behind head and leans back with big grin)
C3PO: “I see your point.” (to R2-D2) “Let the Wookiee win.”
Point #1: Of course! The Kelo atrocity defense!
Don’t worry about the verdict, Mr Clark can’t live long enough to hear it or to make closing arguements for Saddam.
With 1/2 day of trial, one month recess, 1/2 day, month recess … this will be the only trial this century.
Hey, we used WP on Iraqis, Saddam used WP on Iraqis, so Republicans are just like Bathists and Bush should be sitting next to Saddam at the trial.
Seriously. No, really. I read it on the Internet.
I’m sure Karl Rove was involved somehow as well. Just give me a sec to figure out HOW.
TW: children
As in, “BECAUSE OF THE _____”
I guess we have to find the sick humor in Clark’s new job…but it is very difficult for me to understand how an American can go to the defense of such a monster.
It seems to be so disrespectful to all our fallen heroes since the birth of our Nation.