The Village Voice (who else?) has a profile of one of Saddam’s lawyers, an anti-American, anti-capitalist moonbat with a terminal case of Bush Derangement Syndrome: Saddam Hussein’s Lawyer Aims for Bush. (Hat tip: Allah.)

Over lunch on December 17 in an expensive Georgetown restaurant, Doebbler talked about his participation in Hussein’s case, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and his work defending human rights. During the 90-minute interview, the New York native said he is motivated to defend the man many believe was among the most ruthless dictators of the last century not just to uphold norms of international law, but to expose the Bush administration, whose activities over the last four years—in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in the detention of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay—he called “illegal.”

Doebbler, 44, has represented or advised an eclectic mix of clients, including Ethiopian and Sudanese refugees, the Taliban regime, the Palestinian Authority, and prisoners held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay. He said he was approached by an intermediary to join Hussein’s legal team.

“I put my name forward because I thought I could make a contribution,” he said. “I’m an international human rights lawyer. I represent, literally—and this is not fallacious—millions of people. I have power of representation for an estimated two and a half million internally displaced people in Khartoum state in Sudan.

”I wish that case got the attention that this case does, because I believe everyone’s human rights are equally important,“ he added. Doebbler suggested his defense of Hussein would have a positive impact on the more ”vulnerable“ clients he represents. …

Doebbler maintains a website with his writings, and it is a catalog of dissent. There is a paper called ”America’s Illegal and Cowardly War on Iraqis,“ and another decrying aspects of globalization. There is a critique of his fellow citizens. ”Americans are part of the richest most powerful country in the world,“ he wrote in an essay titled ”What It Means to Be an American.“ ”We can do what we want, buy what we want, invest in what we want, and kill whoever we want—the last as a country of course, not merely as individuals.”

Doebbler’s anti-capitalism doesn’t extend to himself, apparently; the article is illustrated with a photograph taken in one of the most expensive upper-crust hotels in the country, the Four Seasons in Georgetown.