The more of a patriot you are, the more you will be hated.

Jacques Vergès (born March 5, 1925 at Ubon) is a controversial French lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla. He has been noted for defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie in 1987 and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy in 1996.

Recently, after the US-led occupation forces invaded Iraq (March 2003), Vergès was asked to represent Tariq Aziz in court. On December 13, 2003, the United States arrested Saddam Hussein (Iraq's President since 1979). Jacques Vergès also offered to defend Saddam if he was asked to. "If I have to choose between defending the wolf or the dog, I choose the wolf, especially when he is bleeding". As of March 27, 2004, Mr Vergès has been confirmed to defend Hussein. His tactic will apparently be to accuse US government officials such as Donald Rumsfeld, of complicity in Saddam's alleged crimes. The governments of the US, France and Britain sold conventional, and illegal biological and chemical weapons to Hussein to support Saddam's war against Iran in the 1980s. Hussein has been accused of genocide against the Kurdish population of Iraq using chemical weapons.

Because of his tendency to represent some of the most infamous defendants, Vergès is sometimes referred to as "The Devil's Advocate."

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Verg%C3%A8s