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Sock puppet for Saddam

"tyrant in chief," a "traitor" and "the international war criminal's best friend."
The founder of the IAC and director for A.N.S.W.E.R. is Ramsey Clark, who is introduced at IAC rallies as the former attorney general under the Lyndon Johnson administration. No mention is made of the fact that Clark, in his current occupation, serves as U.S. counsel for the state of Iraq. As such, no criticism of Saddam Hussein is ever aired at IAC/A.N.S.W.E.R.-controlled protest events. Nor is there any mention – or criticism of – Saddam's gassing of the Kurds, invasion of Kuwait, murder of an estimated 1 million of his own people, environmental terrorism, imprisonment, torture or execution of political prisoners.

The suffering of the Iraqi people is blamed solely on the United States, just as the suffering of Palestinians is blamed solely on Israel.

IAC/A.N.S.W.E.R leaders have aligned themselves exclusively with pro-Arafat groups. The only Jewish people truly embraced as "brothers and sisters" are those who equally denounce Israel or deny Israel's right to exist. A.N.S.W.E.R's pro-Palestinian march in April seemed, in fact, little more than a thinly disguised public display of anti-Semitism masquerading as a "pro-Palestinian" march. Frequent mention was made at the march of a "supposed holocaust" and "genocide" in Jenin, despite the fact that New York Times reporters allowed into the area had discredited such reports as mere hearsay.

While consistently denouncing the "Israeli terrorist state," IAC leadership, headed by Clark, have defended dictator Slobodan Milosevic and convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, whom Clark defended in a New York civil suit brought by Bosnian rape victims.

Indeed, Clark also has been retained by Serbia as U.S. counsel. Accordingly, no outrage over Serbian ethnic cleansing or rapes will ever be heard at an IAC/ANSWER rally. Nor will mention be made of the siege of Sarajevo, the killings at Srebrenica or the million homeless refugees. Clark and the IAC make no mention of the tortures held at the Serbian police station on Cacak Street in central Pristina. The scene was discovered by British paratroopers and the media, who described "a bed, with leather straps, its ratty yellow mattress plunged through with bayonet and bullet holes, and clothes of its victims piled in the corner." Reporter Lauren Rozen described it as a "house of torture" still reeking of "rotting human flesh" where Kosovo Albanians, many of them teen-agers and children, were brutally raped, beaten and killed. Stashed on the scene were all manner or torture instruments, as well as violent pornography.

Nevertheless, Clark was introduced to an adulating crowd at Saturday's rally as a "man of extraordinary principle and conscience."

Detractors from both the left and the right denounce Clark for his "straightforward dishonesty," calling him the "tyrant in chief," a "traitor" and "the international war criminal's best friend."

Overall, IAC considers the U.S. to be the foremost terrorist threat to the world and has claimed that Osama bin Laden was the victim of an imperialist American plot. Brian Becker, member of the secretariat of the World Workers Party, national co-director for the IAC and a member of the national A.N.S.W.E.R. steering committee, is admired by the North Korean dictatorship for his loyalty to their state as well. At a press conference in Pyongyang, Becker denounced the U.S. for "mercilessly killing innocent people."

In May of 2001, F.B.I. Director Louis Freeh labeled the World Workers Party a "potential threat in the U.S."
 
 

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