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July 28, 2004

Saddam Suffers "Stroke"

I'm a little skeptical.

In related news, Martha Stewart suffered an aneurysm and Scott Peterson developed a rare case of confinement-induced epilepsy.


posted by Ace at 03:34 PM
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Posted by: fat kid on July 28, 2004 04:14 PM

And of course, the tinfoil-hat leftoids are running with this: "See? See? Bush won't let him go to trial! Poor Saddam will be magically killed by the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy! I like pudding!"

Posted by: Sailor Kenshin on July 28, 2004 05:08 PM

"We're very worried that we won't have a client to defend."

This stikes me as an odd statement. If his jailors were to suddenly set Saddam free, would these lawyers be just as worried that they wouldn't have a client to defend? Sounds more like they _wanted_ to say, "We're very worried that we'll lose this once in a lifetime opportunity to achieve everlasting world fame."

Posted by: Rudejelly on July 28, 2004 05:31 PM

For what it's worth -- and it's worth damn near zero -- I saw something on a Live Journal blog several days ago claiming that his "sources" had told him Saddam had a stroke. Make of it what you will.

Posted by: Allah on July 28, 2004 05:31 PM

There was that attempted coup d'etat during the last days of the Soviet Union, and the early reports were that Gorbachev was unavailable because he'd had a 9mm brain hemorrhage.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega on July 28, 2004 07:20 PM

You know Raoul, during Reagan's funeral I thought that birthmark looked strangely... different. muahahaha!

Posted by: The Black Republican on July 28, 2004 10:54 PM

Ace,

There are, it seems, several reports that Saddam suffered a mild stroke. His lawyers reportedly are demanding access to him out of their (hyperbolic) fear that his death may be imminent.

If Saddam did indeed have a stroke, as there are reports he had a "brain scan" (where at the world famous Baghdad Center for Neuroimaging?).

The majority of strokes are ischemic (bland or without bleeding) and typically involve varying degrees of motor weakness, sensory loss, less commonly loss of vision, balance or language. Most strokes get mostly better, some strokes get all better, but disability is common.

Hemorrhagic strokes have the potential for being more deadly than ischemic strokes (on average), but can also be mild and self-limiting.

My guess is that Saddam is receiving closely monitored medical care and issues of primary and secondary stroke prophylaxis are being attended to carefully.

There is little chance of the US allowing Saddam to die in their custody. US military neurologists (there aren't many) are available and one or more will be sent ASAP.

Believe me on this one.

Posted by: MeTooThen on July 29, 2004 01:26 AM

just testing plz dont mind

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