Hunger Strike.. Sort of

Former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein did not like the fact that one of his lawyers met his fate on a Baghdad street by the hands of twenty of his own beloved countrymen, so in true Martyr fashion he decided to do something about it, he went on a hunger strike, well, sort of, he skipped lunch.

ABC News online reported that Saddam had skipped lunch to protest the killing of Khamis al-Obeidi, Saddam and other former cabinet members locked away under U.S. scrutiny had decided that going without the noonday meal was sufficient enough to constitute a hunger strike, Gandhi would have been proud. I am sure Saddam wanted to surpass the record of David Blaine of going 44 days without food, but one meal was enough and Saddam was not getting paid for it either.

I suppose that when you are used to being the Capo di tutti capi, head honcho, of a country the size of Iraq, then skipping one meal is about as close as you could get to starving yourself in someone’s name. I am sure he is beginning to get despondent over loosing lawyers; after all, this is the third defense attorney that has met his fate after agreeing to represent Saddam, the role appears to be hazardous to their health.

ABC News online reported, “Mr Obeidi, 49, was snatched on Wednesday by about 20 men from his home and later shot dead in a Baghdad street.” When you review that statement it can only lead to one conclusion, twenty men grabbing someone off the street and killing them in view of other Iraqi’s would defiantly send the message someone does not want Saddam to go free.

Poor Saddam, he is unable to order his sons, Uday and Qusay to have the twenty men picked up in celebration of Saddam’s annual Iraqi torture and killing day, because they too are long gone, they made the fatal mistake of attempting to take on the U.S. military and that is about as bad of a mistake as you can make.