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.
If so, I can only say "WTF???"
Let the b*stard starve!
Let him starve, at least then we can stop wasting money on his trial.
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
I would counsel him with a slide show on the making of a Dunkin Donut.
from whom, Cindy Sheehan?
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%.
We want him dead.
Who cares if it is by starvation or by hanging?
Open wide.....here comes the airplane Boo Boo...oh it yummy..
What the heck has this world become? We are counseling this thug on starvation? How PC of us. How quaint.td> |
I was thinking more along the lines of a hearty breakfast with bacon, ham, AND sausage.
I hope its the Bobby Sands school counselling.
You beat me to it LOL!
Then he is not on a hunger strike is he? Just a liquid diet.
Must be worried about fitting into his new Speedo.
I would give him some liquid Nourishment. A can of Draino.
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.....
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.
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