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Saddam gets counseling to end hunger strike: US
Should've tossed a grenade in that hole...BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein is receiving psychiatric counseling to convince him to start eating again after 12 days on hunger strike in a U.S. military prison. Are we fighting a war over there or is this turning into "Oprah Goes To Iraq"? Saying that the 69-year-old ousted Iraqi president was still refusing food but taking liquid nourishment, a U.S. spokesman said such counseling was part of additional daily medical care for inmates who risked damaging their health by their actions. And we want him nice and healthy for his execution... "Medical and mental health professionals counsel the detainees on the dangers," Lieutenant Colonel Keir-Kevin Curry said. "They try to convince the detainees to end their fast." Why don't you convince them to hang themselves? Saddam and three co-defendants who last ate on July 7 are all healthy, Curry said. Oh, good. A lawyer for Saddam, who is due back in court on Monday, has said his client's health has suffered but that he is determined to pursue the protest until U.S. officials improve protection for defense attorneys and meet other demands on the trial. Saddam. Look. Doritos! The big bag! U.S. officials involved with the Iraqi court trying Saddam and seven others for crimes against humanity have said that a defense lawyer killed last month, the third since the trial began, had refused U.S. offers of protection. Hmmmmmmm? Maybe should've "counseled" him... The defense team responded to a letter in English from a foreign legal adviser to the court urging them to end a boycott of the proceedings by publishing the letter, describing it as a threat and complaining it should have been written in Arabic. Can we just shoot the bastard and get this over with? Posted by: tu3031 2006-07-19 |
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