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| Saddam gets counseling to end hunger strike: US |
| 2006-07-19 |
| 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 |
| #6 Ahh Just lie to him. Tell him that if he eats a whole lot maybe when they put the noose on him it wont catch on his neck it will be too fat and just slip off like trying to hang your forehead. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2006-07-19 18:28 |
| #5 He stays out of court, OK. He comes into court just after having the IV removed, OK. The final phase will be completed, whatever he does. Stunts like this don't gain much traction when the person is universally regarded as a monstrous criminal. Still, a healthy prisoner sitting and seeing the evidence in the Anfal trial would still be best. Ceaucescu treatment would be satisfying, but we'd be hungry a few hours later. Documenting the former regime's crimes will be satisfying and non-fattening, too ..... |
| Posted by: Verlaine in Iraq 2006-07-19 16:51 |
| #4 I don't want my tax dollars to go towards this! Stick a barbequed steak under his nose and he'll eat! Better yet, put the steak outside his cell just beyond his reach. |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-07-19 16:26 |
| #3 Let him starve if he wants to. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-07-19 15:33 |
| #2 Threaten him by saying if he doesn't start eating, we will bring Cindy Sheehan and all the other fasting dweebs to stay with him. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2006-07-19 15:29 |
| #1 Where's the counseling graphic? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-19 15:22 |