Damn.

And here we thought we wouldn’t have to wait the one month after his conviction trial for his hanging punishment.

Funnily enough, he ended the hunger strike “on health grounds”! LOL, like that would matter. Isn’t that the entire point? As Boozhy puts it, those “health grounds” were that he was hungry? Maybe he just couldn’t live with Doritos. Don’t worry Saddam, living won’t be a problem for you much longer.

The Captain at Captain’s Quarters also found that ironic. I guess Saddam thought that he might get more attention this way instead of shouting and screaming nonsense in the trial, which of course hasn’t really helped him anyway. So maybe starving himself to look like death warmed over might illicit some sympathy… As the Captain puts it:

He didn’t start eating because he got sick — he started eating because he belatedly realized that no one gives a flying you-know-what if he dies in prison for any reason. In fact, many who have seen his corruption of the Oil-For-Food program, intended on feeding starving Iraqis, would have considered it poetic justice.

Amen! I’ll have to write a poem about him not starving to death but dancing on the gibbet instead.