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Saddam gets hunger strike counselling
Herald Sun ^ | 20 July 2006

Posted on 07/19/2006 7:01:26 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

SADDAM Hussein is receiving psychiatric counselling to convince him to start eating again after 12 days on hunger strike in a US military prison.

Saying that the 69-year-old ousted Iraqi president was still refusing food but taking liquid nourishment, a US spokesman said such counselling was part of additional daily medical care for inmates who risked damaging their health by their actions.

"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."

Saddam and three co-defendants who last ate on July 7 are all healthy, Col. Curry said.

A lawyer for Saddam has said his client's health has suffered but that he is determined to pursue the protest until US officials improve protection for defence lawyers and meet other demands on the trial.

US officials involved with the Iraqi court trying Saddam and seven others for crimes against humanity have said that a defence lawyer killed last month, the third since the trial began, had refused US offers of protection.

The defence 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: counselling; hungerstrike; iraq; prisonersaddam; saddam; why
I don't suppose this "counselling" is provided by the US taxpayer?

If so, I can only say "WTF???"

Let the b*stard starve!

1 posted on 07/19/2006 7:01:28 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

Let him starve, at least then we can stop wasting money on his trial.


2 posted on 07/19/2006 7:02:44 PM PDT by Sarvana (I'm not prejudiced, I hate everyone equally.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Make the American Leftist can help him out and teach him how to do their rolling fast. You know they can roll Saddam's fast amoung the other Bathist's bigs. Saddam fasts today, Terik Azi tomorrow, the various Al-Mashidin's can take a turn etc etc etc


3 posted on 07/19/2006 7:03:46 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Democrats, TAX,SPEND,APPEASEMENT and TREASON..is not a winning platform.)
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I would counsel him with a slide show on the making of a Dunkin Donut.


4 posted on 07/19/2006 7:03:49 PM PDT by Dog
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To: Aussie Dasher

from whom, Cindy Sheehan?


5 posted on 07/19/2006 7:04:50 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (dust off the big guns.)
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SADDAM Hussein is receiving psychiatric counselling to convince him to start eating again after 12 days on hunger strike in a US military prison.

Woo hoo! Only 2 more days without eating and he will beat Terri Schindler's record.

Go for it, Saddam. We're behind you 100%.

6 posted on 07/19/2006 7:04:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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We want him dead.

Who cares if it is by starvation or by hanging?


7 posted on 07/19/2006 7:07:00 PM PDT by i_dont_chat (I have the right to offend. You can take offense or not.)
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This kind of counseling?

Open wide.....here comes the airplane Boo Boo...oh it yummy..

8 posted on 07/19/2006 7:09:15 PM PDT by mylife
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What the heck has this world become? We are counseling this thug on starvation? How PC of us. How quaint.td>

 

9 posted on 07/19/2006 7:11:08 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
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I would counsel him with a slide show on the making of a Dunkin Donut.

I was thinking more along the lines of a hearty breakfast with bacon, ham, AND sausage.

10 posted on 07/19/2006 7:13:15 PM PDT by Huntress (Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
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I hope its the Bobby Sands school counselling.


11 posted on 07/19/2006 7:18:09 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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To: the invisib1e hand

You beat me to it LOL!


12 posted on 07/19/2006 7:20:49 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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taking liquid nourishment,

Then he is not on a hunger strike is he? Just a liquid diet.

Must be worried about fitting into his new Speedo.

13 posted on 07/19/2006 7:25:27 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty)
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To: Aussie Dasher

I would give him some liquid Nourishment. A can of Draino.


14 posted on 07/19/2006 7:27:39 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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I heard Saddam has a husband who has since hooked up with another man, who stands to receive million dollar death benefit from a life insurance policy, who assures us Saddam decided in 1993 that he would prefer to starve to death than be tried for being an evil bastard. At least it will be blissful for him.....


15 posted on 07/19/2006 7:43:07 PM PDT by DC Bound
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To: Sarvana

Nahh.. take him to Sadrtown and drop him off. Just make sure that you tell his Fedeyeen where you are droppiong him. I would love to see the firefight.


16 posted on 07/19/2006 7:44:12 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats - The reason we need term limits)
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