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Devil's Advocate

Okay, so there's this guy who has provided legal counsel and advice to Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic, Charles Taylor, a leader of the Rwandan genocide, and David Koresh.

When you've represented such an illustrious group, to whom else would you turn? Whose cause is most redeeming, most worthy of your brilliant legal mind? Why, Sadaam Hussein, of course.

Better yet, this champion of the oppressed was once the top law enforcement officer in the United States. Obviously, something, somewhere along the way, went very wrong.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Ramsey Clark.

Many former friends, more in sorrow than in anger, trace his present positions to the company he keeps: the International Action Center, which proclaims him its founder but seems entirely in the thrall of an obscure Trotskyist sect, the Workers World Party. Whoever writes his scripts, there is little doubt what Ramsey Clark is against now -- any manifestation of the power of the state he once served at the height of the Vietnam War.

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