Ramsey Clark is an American

Long journey of Ramsey Clark

Jamie Wilson in Washington
Tuesday December 6, 2005
The Guardian

Ramsey Clark, the lawyer defending Saddam Hussein, has gone from being America's top law enforcement official during the final years of Lyndon Johnson's administration to become a fierce opponent of the country's foreign policy and military intervention.

The son of a US supreme court justice, Mr Clark grew up in Dallas and made his name as a civil rights lawyer. After his tenure as attorney general he became increasingly active in leftwing politics, and has traveled from Hanoi to Tripoli, Grenada to Panama and most recently Iraq to denounce US power.

In 1991, as the first Gulf war raged, he toured Iraq to denounce what he called the American bombing of civilian targets, bringing the full ire of the US political establishment down on his head.

Click here to read the rest of the story

Non-US media do not portray US favorably, but the country has many dimensions and there are a lot of people in the country including Ramsey Clark who defends Saddam Hussein as a lawyer. It is probably fair to portray him as an American rather than someone who stands against US. Much of anti-US rhetoric in non-US media are probably fair, but it is unfair to isolate individuals like Ramsey Clark, do not view them as a part of US and portray US in a certain way.