Good riddance (Yahoo! News)

This has got to be one of the most satisfying moments of the Saddam Hussein trial today:

Saddam trial judge ejects Ramsey Clark

The judge presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others on charges of crimes against humanity ejected former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark from the court on Sunday for insulting the tribunal.

Clark, who heads an international team of lawyers involved in the defence, was ejected at the start of a hearing at which Saddam and two aides were convicted and sentenced to death.

The judge, Raouf Abdul Rahman, ejected Clark because he had sent a memo to Abdul Rahman including the accusation that the tribunal was making ‘a mockery of justice’.

The judge told him in Arabic: ‘No, you are the mockery … get him out, out.’

Abdul Rahman then shouted in English: ‘Out! Out!’

‘You come from America and ridicule the Iraqi people,’ he said.

He embarrasses us all.

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More from Jim Hoft.

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President Bush speaks:

Bush called the verdict “a milestone in the Iraqi people’s efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law.”

Saddam was convicted Sunday and sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a Shiite town.

“It’s a major achievement for Iraq’s young democracy and its constitutional government,” the president said at the airport before flying to Nebraska and Kansas on a campaign swing for Republican candidates two days before congressional elections.

“The man who once struck fear in the hearts of Iraqis had to listen to free Iraqis recount the acts of torture and murder that he ordered against their families and against them,” Bush said in brief remarks.

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