Saddam Hussein Trail and Ramsey Clark on His Defense Team

I really do not know what to say about this article I read in The New York Times.

From the article I came to know that in Saddam Hussein's defense team is Ramsey Clark, who once worked with the Justice Department in the US and is a New York attorny. His rationale for defending Saddam is that everyone deserves a fair trail (as reported in the story). His other clients are also easily recognizable, as the NYT article reports.

It is a remarkable roll call, the men who have had him at their side at times of confrontation with America and its government: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, Slobodan Milosevic of the former Yugoslavia, Charles Taylor of Liberia; and, at home, fringe figures like the Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, the right-wing gadfly Lyndon LaRouche, and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life term in an American jail for his role in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.

And what is Saddam doing these days? If we believe Mr. Clark, as quoted in NYT:

"He seemed quite mellow, and he read us two of his poems, about family life, about mothers and children, and about the possibility of violent death."

At another point in the NYT story Mr Clark says:

...people "who have a habit of seeing the world in black and white, as good and evil, of demonized characters stripped of all humanity." That, he said, was what America had done to Mr. Hussein, and, in a way, to Mr. Clark.

Forgive me, but just once in a while, I like to see my world in black and white and Saddam Hussein is one such creature. By all means give him a fair trail and let Mr. Clark defend him but when you start telling me that he is talking or writing about family, mothers and children, and about possibility of violent death, I can't help but feel like puking.