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Katy McKenna Raymond
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A No-Carb Hunger Strike? Anything But That!

If you’ve been following the news about Saddam Hussein’s trial, you know that as the weeks have passed, he’s become increasingly belligerent in the courtroom.

He’s taken to throwing tantrums in front of the judge, demanding that the proceedings go his way or the highway, and generally showing himself to be a dictator behaving badly.

Is Saddam a Shiite? I should know that, but I can never remember. Well, if he is, folks, the Shiite is about to hit the fan.

Because as of today, he’s going on a hunger strike. That would be easy enough for anyone to accomplish if he’d been on a crummy, unsatisfying and uninteresting low-fat diet. If he’d been existing on rations of lettuce and carrots and bean sprouts, I’d say he could pull out his one last weapon of hunger striking and have everyone over a barrel.

But here’s the deal: the guy’s addicted to carbs. Evidently, his diet consists largely of rice, potato, fruit, muffins, and those three favorites of carb lovers the world over: Cheetos, Dorritos, and Raisin Bran Crunch.

I’ll bet he’s never put himself on a low-carb diet before, and I can tell you from very extremely personal experience, those first few weeks aren’t pretty. The addiction to sugar is like no other force known to man or womankind, and if the courtroom thinks they’ve seen crazed antics thus far, I feel it’s only fair to warn them: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.

My prediction: Saddam won’t fast a week.

Posted by Katy on 02/14/06 at 02:06 PM
Fallible Comments...
  1. This post is utterly hilarious. You kill me!
    Posted by Heather  on  02/14/06  at  07:16 PM
  2. Hahahaha! XD
    Posted by Diane  on  02/14/06  at  08:19 PM
  3. I agree with you. He is not going to go without a sugar fix. The man is insane...which is the nicest thing I can say.
    Posted by Maria  on  02/14/06  at  11:24 PM
  4. Heather--You can't die yet! You've got blog awards to hand out!!! Thanks for the fun contest...

    Diane--Glad to give you a chuckle!

    Maria--I think you are very nice, indeed. :)
    Posted by Katy  on  02/16/06  at  04:40 AM
  5. Hi Katy,

    I just found your blog. It is a delightful place you have here. When I read "I am NOT Making this Up" and found that you write for a paper, I was not in the least suprised.

    I'll definately be checking back here often.
    Posted by Amka  on  02/16/06  at  05:19 PM
  6. Saddam's a Sunni. That's the reason for the virtual civil war right now. The Sunnis are a minority in Iraq but ruled with an iron fist under Saddam, and the Shiites want revenge for that.

    Hunger strikes are stupid. The US will just force feed him anyway like they are doing to the prisoners in Gitmo.
    Posted by Daedalus  on  02/16/06  at  07:54 PM
  7. Amka--Thank you! I don't write for a paper on a regular basis, just occasional humor pieces. It gives my mother something to laminate and plaster on her closet doors (along with articles my sisters have written, too.)

    Daedalus--I kind of knew that. But the names often elude me. And I'd just finished viewing Hotel Rwanda, and had Tutsis and Hutus on the brain so much that I couldn't remember "Sunni." Thanks!
    Posted by Katy  on  02/16/06  at  08:29 PM
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